Nine new housing cities add 58,000 plots to Kuwait’s residential map
Al-Mutlaa leads property sales as new housing areas gain momentum; 23,000 homes registered as construction surges in new cities
Over the past 15 years, Kuwait’s residential map has expanded significantly, with nine new housing areas and cities entering the real estate landscape.
More than 58,000 plots of land have been distributed to citizens by the Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW), marking one of the country’s largest waves of residential development.
Data from PAHW and the Public Authority for Civil Information show accelerated construction activity in these new cities. More than 23,000 homes have now been registered in official automated systems, representing nearly 40 percent of the total plots of land distributed in areas including Sabah Al-Ahmad City, Al-Mutlaa, Al-Wafra Residential Area, Al-Khairan Residential City, West Abdullah Al-Mubarak and its southern extension, South Khaitan, Jaber Al-Ahmad City and Northwest Sulaibikhat, reports Al-Rai daily.
In cities still under construction, progress in issuing building permits has been substantial. By the end of last year, 32,400 citizens in Al-Mutlaa, South Khaitan and South Abdullah Al-Mubarak had received “To Whom It May Concern” certificates required to complete building permits — accounting for 98 percent of plot owners in those areas. Only about 553 plot holders have yet to obtain permits.
Despite the relative newness of these projects, thousands of homes are already operational. In Al-Mutlaa alone, 3,344 homes had obtained automated numbers by the end of 2025, spread across 12 sectors of the city.
In South Abdullah Al-Mubarak, 698 homes received automated numbers out of 3,260 plots. South Khaitan, which includes 1,448 plots, recorded a high permit issuance rate of 99.5 percent, although automated residential numbers have not yet been fully reflected in the data.
Sabah Al-Ahmad City, one of the largest new residential developments, leads in completed units, with 7,427 automated housing numbers out of 9,574 distributed plots. Jaber Al-Ahmad City follows with 5,752 units out of 6,679 plots, while Northwest Sulaibikhat recorded 1,089 homes out of 1,736 plots.
In Al-Khairan Residential City, 228 homes have been registered out of 313 plots, and in West Abdullah Al-Mubarak, 3,010 homes out of 5,201 plots have received automated numbers. Al-Wafra Residential Area recorded 1,470 homes.
Real estate activity in these new areas is not limited to construction, as secondary market sales are also gaining momentum. In January alone, transactions in these residential cities totaled 14.07 million dinars, accounting for nearly 9 percent of total real estate sales nationwide through 44 deals. More than half of those transactions took place in Al-Mutlaa.
Al-Mutlaa saw a new benchmark price, with a 400-square-meter house selling for 600,000 dinars. Overall transactions in the city reached 8.3 million dinars across 24 deals, with house prices ranging between 215,000 dinars and 600,000 dinars.
The Jaber Al-Ahmad City ranked second in activity, recording six sales, including four 400-square-meter houses priced between 305,000 dinars and 450,000 dinars, in addition to two apartments sold for 185,000 dinars and 155,000 dinars.
The Al-Wafra Residential Area recorded five house and land sales totaling about 1.1 million dinars, with house prices ranging from 160,000 dinars to 250,000 dinars and land selling for around 97,000 dinars.
These figures highlight both the scale of Kuwait’s recent housing expansion and the growing movement in residential real estate markets as infrastructure develops and more families settle into newly built communities.
