(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Residential apartments at Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Tower, which is slated to become the world's tallest building on completion in 2018, will likely go on sale later this year, the developer's chief executive said yesterday.
The tower in Saudi Arabia's second biggest city Jeddah has the backing of billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, whose investment firm Kingdom Holding owns about a third of the project's master developer Jeddah Economic Company (JEC).
Once completed, the $1.2bn Kingdom Tower will be over a kilometre high, said JEC chief executive Mounib Hammoud, taking the title of the world's tallest building from Dubai's Burj Khalifa, which stands at about 830 metres.
The Kingdom Tower will have a gross floor area of 245,000 square metres and include offices, a 200-room Four Seasons Hotel, 121 serviced apartments and 360 residential apartments.
The apartments "will be for sale. Maybe we will rent some, pool some for rental or do (investment) funds on a few - it depends on the market," said Hammoud, adding that sales should begin this year.
His company is now collecting applications from potential buyers. Construction has reached the 14th floor.
Citizens of the six Gulf countries - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates - are eligible to buy units in the tower, but other potential investors will require government approval, Hammoud said.
JEC is investing 8.7 billion riyals ($2.3bn) in the Jeddah Economic City project, which includes Kingdom Tower and Saudi Arabia's largest shopping mall.
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