An institutional platform · Est. 2024 · Dubai

An international real estate investment platform deploying institutional capital across Saudi Arabia.

OCTO Funds invests at the operational layer of the Kingdom's transformation, across industrial and residential markets anchored by Vision 2030, where structural undersupply meets sovereign-led economic restructuring. Executed with two established platforms: GFH and NF Group.

$0.0T
Saudi market capitalization · Tadawul
$1.3T
Pipeline
63%
Non-oil GDP
115K
Homes / yr
59
Logistics
$114bn
Contracts
In partnership with
GFH Partners NF Group
The mandates

Two parallel strategies. One operating thesis.

Industrial logistics complex
Industrial

Logistics, warehousing, light-industrial.

SR 378bn of Vision 2030 capital allocated to industrial infrastructure. Manufacturing GDP share targeted to double by 2030.

+63% Investment YoY
891 Active projects
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Residential masterplan
Residential

Premium and mid-market urban development.

Structural undersupply across the Kingdom's primary urban centres. 305,000 new units required in Riyadh alone by 2030.

+75% Riyadh apts vs 2019
63k 2024 transactions
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Why Saudi Arabia

A $1.3 trillion sovereign-led transformation, executed in real time.

Vision 2030 is the most consequential economic restructuring in the Middle East since the post-war discovery of oil. Cumulative announced project volume reached $1.3 trillion by end-2024. Non-oil sectors now account for 63% of GDP, with the IMF forecasting ~4% annual growth through the decade.

The Kingdom met its 2030 home ownership target seven years early, surpassed its 2030 tourism arrivals target in 2023, and doubled female labour participation since 2017. Capital is moving from policy into the operational layer. That is where OCTO Funds invests.

$1.3T
Announced project volume
63%
Non-oil share of GDP
~4%
IMF non-oil growth forecast
35M
Population
25
Average age
$2.3T
Tadawul market cap
Saudi Arabia, geographic footprint relief with region boundaries and city markers

Saudi Arabia's growth is concentrated, not diffuse. It gathers in a handful of urban centres, and OCTO Funds builds where that concentration is structural. Riyadh, the capital, pulls the Kingdom's talent, business, and in-migration, anchoring durable housing demand. Jeddah, the second city and Red Sea gateway, leads western trade and logistics. The Dammam Metropolitan Area, on the eastern seaboard, is the industrial and energy heartland. These are the markets where capital at the operational layer compounds against the deepest demand.

The Kingdom in numbers

A market moving at scale, with structural demand drivers locked in for the decade.

$1.3T
Vision 2030 project volume
63.7%
Saudi home ownership 2023
109M
Tourist arrivals 2023
36.2%
Female labour participation
59
Logistics centres in development
305k
New Riyadh units needed by 2030
The reading

Vision 2030 has translated into measurable economic outputs. Non-oil GDP has tripled since 2000. Real estate transactions reached SAR 267.8bn across 236,690 sales in 2024, increases of 27% and 37% on prior year. The data points below underpin the OCTO Funds investment thesis.

GDP transformation: non-oil overtakes oil

2000 to 2029 · Indexed from 2000
FORECAST $400bn $300bn $200bn $100bn $0 2000 2008 2016 2023 2029F VISION 2030 LAUNCH · 2016 ~$430bn ~$180bn
Non-oil GDP Oil GDP

Source: IMF · Knight Frank · As of Q4 2024

Industrial sector trajectory

Vision 2030 targets vs. 2024 baseline
Manufacturing 10 to 20% of GDP
2024 baseline 2030 target
Logistics 7 to 10% of GDP
2024 baseline 2030 target
Renewables & petrochemicals $50bn committed
Deployed 2030 commitment
International investment YoY +63% growth
SR 415bn cumulative funding · 891 projects

Source: GFH Partners · Vision 2030

Saudi population structure

By age cohort · 2024 · Total ~35M
MALE FEMALE 65+ 55-64 45-54 35-44 25-34 15-24 5-14 0-4 63% UNDER 30 · AVERAGE AGE 25

Source: GASTAT Saudi Census 2022

Riyadh residential price index

SAR per sqm · Q2 2016 to Q4 2024
6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2019 BASELINE 5,780 +75% 5,190 +40%
Apartments (+75% vs 2019) Villas (+40%)

Source: Knight Frank · Tadawul · As of Q4 2024

The mandates

Two parallel strategies. One operating thesis.

OCTO Funds operates two parallel mandates targeting the structural undersupply at the centre of the Kingdom's transformation. Industrial captures the build-out of manufacturing, logistics, and renewables-adjacent real estate. Residential targets the housing shortfall in primary urban centres at premium and mid-market price points.

Saudi Arabia industrial logistics complex

Industrial

Logistics parks, warehousing, light-industrial, and the operational layer of Vision 2030's industrial build-out.

Vision 2030 has allocated SR 378bn to industrial transformation, with manufacturing's GDP share targeted to double from 10% to 20% by 2030, and logistics rising from 7% to 10%. Cumulative funding of SR 415bn has been disbursed across 891 active projects, with international investment growing 63% year-on-year.

The mandate covers Grade-A logistics parks, cold storage, bonded warehousing, and multi-modal hubs near Riyadh Dry Port, Dammam, and Jeddah, alongside build-to-suit facilities for global 3PLs and e-commerce operators. 59 logistics centres are currently in development across the Kingdom.

SR 378bn
Vision 2030 industrial allocation
891
Active industrial projects
+63%
International investment YoY
59
Logistics centres in development
Target geographies Riyadh · Dammam · Jeddah · King Abdullah Economic City
Selected pipeline
Grade-A logistics warehouse
Grade-A logistics warehouse
Build-to-rent · 87k sqm
Grade-A logistics complex
Grade-A logistics complex
Build-to-suit · 64k sqm
+12more
Build-to-suit facilities for global 3PLs and e-commerce operators across the Kingdom.
In pipeline · 2025 to 2028
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Saudi Arabia residential development masterplan

Residential

Premium and mid-market residential developments addressing structural undersupply in primary urban centres.

Riyadh apartment values are up 75% on 2019 levels; villa values up 40%. The capital recorded 63,000 transactions in 2024, a 44.2% year-on-year increase, totalling SAR 46.9bn. To meet the 70% home ownership target by 2030, the Kingdom requires 305,000 new units in Riyadh alone.

The mandate targets institutional-grade development across premium and mid-market segments, including build-to-rent, branded residential, and community-led masterplans where structural undersupply meets policy-driven demand. Total residential transaction value across the Kingdom reached SAR 164.8bn in 2024, up 35% YoY.

+75%
Riyadh apartments vs 2019
63k
Riyadh 2024 transactions
305k
New units needed by 2030
SAR 164.8bn
2024 transaction value
Target geographies Riyadh · Jeddah · Dammam Metropolitan Area
Selected pipeline · Hilton Branded Residences
Hilton Branded Residences at The Eye, OSUS, Riyadh
Hilton Riyadh
Riyadh · OSUS · The Eye
Multaqa Almadinah, Hilton Branded Residences, Al-Madinah
Hilton Madinah
Al-Madinah · KEC · Multaqa
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News

Three agreements at SPIEF 2026: over 30 billion rubles committed to Saudi logistics and residential real estate.

St. Petersburg · SPIEF 2026 · June 5, 2026

At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, investment platform OCTO Funds signed three agreements to invest in the construction of logistics centres and residential real estate in Saudi Arabia, totalling more than 30 billion rubles.

OCTO Funds signing ceremony at SPIEF 2026
Signing ceremony · Conference hall D1, SPIEF 2026 · St. Petersburg, June 5, 2026
3
Agreements signed at SPIEF 2026
30+
Billion rubles · total investment volume
25–30%
Target project returns
25M
Annual visitors to Madinah

In 2026, Saudi Arabia opened land ownership and infrastructure projects to foreign investors for the first time. This is a chance to be among the first investors in a region where economic growth and a structural shortage of quality assets support target returns of 25–30%.

One of the projects is a joint investment with a master developer in Madinah, a city that welcomes 25 million visitors a year and was closed to foreign investors until 2026.

The signing was supported by senior officials of the Kingdom of Bahrain: Minister of Industry and Commerce Abdulla bin Adel Fakhro, Minister of Finance and National Economy Shaikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, and Bahrain's Ambassador to Russia Ahmed Abdulrahman Al Saati; they were joined by Sheikh Hamad bin Salman Al Khalifa, Assistant Undersecretary for Domestic and Foreign Trade. Several of the projects are being developed in partnership with GFH, one of Bahrain's largest financial institutions.

"A market that was closed to foreign capital for decades opens once in a generation. These agreements place our investors among the first to enter Saudi Arabia, at the stage when the shortage of quality assets still commands a premium on returns."

The OCTO Funds team
Maria Selyutina and Ekaterina Chernova at the SPIEF 2026 signing ceremony
Maria Selyutina and Ekaterina Chernova, Partners, OCTO Funds
Ekaterina Chernova greeting the Kingdom of Bahrain delegation
Ekaterina Chernova greeting the Kingdom of Bahrain delegation
The Kingdom of Bahrain delegation at the SPIEF 2026 signing ceremony
The Kingdom of Bahrain delegation at the signing ceremony

The team

Six partners. Direct execution capability across capital, sourcing, and development.

The OCTO Funds partnership combines institutional capital markets experience with on-the-ground sourcing and development expertise. Each partner brings a specialised mandate: capital markets, premium real estate, investments, sovereign advisory, industrial real estate, and sale-and-leaseback transactions.

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investors@octofunds.com

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Correspondence

Media & partners

For press, partner platform coordination, and general correspondence.

Victor Sadygov
+971 56 788 8295

Ekaterina Chernova
+971 56 857 5527
e.chernova@octoglobal.ae

Maria Selyutina
+7 926 169-81-69
mselyutina@icloud.com

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