• Al-Ahmadi Governorate topped the record with 226 transactions, representing 44.1% of the full. Hawalli Governorate got here subsequent with 112 offers, or 21.9%, whereas Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate had the bottom share with 34 offers, or 6.6%.
The weekly Al-Shall Financial Report confirmed an increase in Kuwait’s actual property market liquidity in August in comparison with July, primarily based on figures from the Ministry of Justice’s Actual Property Registration and Documentation Division.
In keeping with the report, the full worth of actual property transactions in August reached about KD 472.2 million, up 6.7% from July’s KD 442.7 million and 82.2% larger than August 2024’s KD 259.2 million, Al Anba newspaper reported.
The report additionally famous that 512 transactions have been recorded in August. Al-Ahmadi Governorate topped the record with 226 offers, representing 44.1% of the full. Hawalli Governorate got here subsequent with 112 offers, or 21.9%, whereas Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate had the bottom share with 34 offers, or 6.6%.
The worth of personal housing exercise buying and selling reached about KD 133.2 million in August, reflecting a decline of 6.8% in comparison with July, when the determine stood at KD 142.9 million. Consequently, the sector’s contribution to the general actual property market fell to twenty-eight.2% of complete transactions, down from 32.3% within the earlier month.
The month-to-month common worth of personal housing transactions throughout the previous 12 months was KD 138.1 million, which means August’s determine was 3.5% decrease than the common. The variety of transactions on this class reached 351, in comparison with 377 in July. Regardless of the decline in total quantity, the common worth per deal in August was about KD 380,000, barely larger than July’s KD 379,000, marking a marginal enhance of 0.1%.
Within the funding housing sector, the worth of trades totaled KD 98.9 million, down 47.7% from July’s KD 189.2 million. Its share of complete market liquidity dropped to twenty.9%, in comparison with 42.7% a month earlier.
Over the previous 12 months, the sector’s month-to-month common worth was KD 137.7 million, making August’s outcome 28.2% decrease than the yearly common. A complete of 118 offers have been recorded in August, in comparison with 177 in July. The common worth per transaction stood at KD 838,000, down 21.6% from KD 1.1 million within the earlier month.
Business exercise, nevertheless, confirmed vital progress. Transactions on this sector surged to KD 240.1 million in August, a rise of 128.7% in comparison with July’s KD 105 million. Because of this, industrial exercise accounted for 50.8% of total actual property transactions, up from 23.7% in July.
The 12-month month-to-month common for industrial exercise was KD 66.6 million, which means August’s determine was 260.3% larger. A complete of 43 offers have been recorded in August, in comparison with 18 in July. The common worth per deal reached KD 5.6 million, barely decrease than July’s common of KD 5.8 million, a decline of 4.3%.
Evaluating August 2025 with the identical month final 12 months, the full buying and selling worth elevated from KD 259.2 million to KD 472.2 million, or 82.2%. The expansion was pushed fully by industrial exercise, which rose by 293.2%, whereas non-public housing exercise fell by 51% and funding housing declined by 8%.
For the primary eight months of 2025, complete actual property market liquidity reached KD 2.77 billion, in comparison with KD 2.141 billion in the identical interval of 2024, a rise of 29.4%. If this pattern continues for the remaining 4 months, the full annual buying and selling worth is anticipated to achieve KD 4.155 billion, about 18.3% larger than final 12 months’s KD 3.512 billion.