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Codeeo provides rental property portal website development in Dammam for marketplace founders, brokerages, compound owners and housing providers across Dammam, Al Khobar and Dhahran. The platforms we build let landlords and brokers publish verified units, let companies request several homes at once, let families and students book viewings, and let the platform charge for listings, reservations and commission while paying its partners accurately. Arabic comes first in every screen, with English built for the many international residents in the Eastern Province.
Housing demand here follows the energy and industrial economy. Employers lease blocks of units for staff on rotation, families look for compounds and villas, and students seek rooms near the universities. One portal that serves company buyers as well as individuals wins listings that general classified sites handle badly, and it gives brokers a reason to list with you first.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the portal includes
Most rental portals assume one tenant searching for one home. In the Dammam metropolitan area a large share of demand comes from organisations: contractors and service companies housing engineers, hospitals and schools housing staff, and firms placing people for a project of a fixed length. These buyers want several units in one area, a single contract contact and invoices with VAT. Families still want compound amenities, school runs and a quiet street in Al Khobar or north Dammam, and students want rooms near Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University or King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. The rules are the same for all of them: brokers hold a FAL licence, each advert carries a REGA advertising licence, leases are documented on Ejar, and residential rent travels through Ejar's channels rather than your checkout. Student rooms near the universities are handled as their own listing type, with semester terms and gender rules. The features below follow that split between company and individual renters.
A company account submits one request for several units, with the number of bedrooms, preferred districts, move in dates and budget per unit. Matching listings go to the relevant brokers, who respond with offers the company compares side by side. Accepted offers become reservations, and each one is documented separately on Ejar.
Bulk housing deals handled in one place instead of dozens of calls.
Compound operators list unit types rather than single flats, with shared amenities such as pools, gyms, schools nearby, gated security and maintenance included. Availability is shown per unit type, so a family sees what is free this month without a broker phoning the compound office for every enquiry.
Compound stock stays accurate and enquiries arrive qualified.
Tenants search Dammam, Al Khobar and Dhahran as one market, by district or by drive time to a workplace, a university or the King Fahd Causeway. Filters cover family or single occupancy, furnishing, compound or standalone building, covered parking and lease length.
Renters compare the whole metro area without switching sites.
Brokers publish viewing windows per building, and tenants book slots that respect the drive between Dammam and Al Khobar, so one agent is never booked in Al Faisaliyah and Al Aqrabiyah fifteen minutes apart. Reminders go by SMS, email or WhatsApp, and no shows are recorded so brokers can require a deposit for repeat offenders.
Agents spend their day showing units, not driving between clashes.
Shops, offices, showrooms and light industrial units are listed with floor area, frontage, power supply, loading access and permitted activity. Commercial leases are documented on Ejar too, but sit outside the residential rent payment rule, so the portal can collect deposits for them if your payment provider and legal advisers agree.
Business tenants find premises on the same trusted platform.
Reservation fees, featured listing plans and agreed commission are paid by mada, Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay or STC Bank through a licensed gateway. Companies can pay by bank transfer against an invoice instead of card. Tabby or Tamara can appear on individual fees where those providers accept the category.
Each customer pays the way their finance team works.
Every fee generates a ZATCA compliant e-invoice through a Fatoora capable provider, showing the company's VAT number, purchase order reference and the units involved. Monthly statements group fees by project or cost centre, which is what procurement teams in the Eastern Province ask for before they approve a supplier.
Corporate accounts pass procurement checks and pay on time.
The ledger records each deal's broker, referral source and agreed split, and releases payouts once the Ejar contract reference is recorded. Brokers see pending and paid amounts in their own dashboard, and your finance team exports the full history for reconciliation each month.
Brokers keep listing because they are paid without chasing.
When a company swaps one employee for another in a leased unit, the change is logged against the account without a new listing. Complaints about condition, withdrawn offers or fee refunds open a case with photos, messages and a deadline, and your team records the decision.
Fewer disagreements and a clear record when they happen.
District, compound and building pages are generated from verified listings, with structured data, clean Arabic and English URLs and fast load times on mobile. A family searching for a villa compound in Al Khobar or a flat near the Dammam Corniche lands on a page that lists real availability rather than an empty template.
Organic search brings tenants in without paying for every click.
Who this is for
Rental property portal website design in Dammam begins with one question: who are the paying customers? A portal built around corporate housing needs offers, approvals and invoices. A family and student portal needs search, viewings and reviews. These four situations cover most of the Eastern Province projects we scope, and each leads to a different first release. Some clients start in one position and add another within a year, so the data model allows all four from day one.
You want to connect companies that house staff with landlords and brokers who hold suitable stock. We start with company accounts, multi unit requests, broker offers, approvals by the client's housing manager and monthly invoices. Public tenant search can follow once supply is strong enough to show openly. Reports show each client how long requests took to fill and which districts their staff ended up in.
Brokerage activity needs a FAL licence; we build around yours, we do not provide it.
Your compounds in Al Khobar or Dhahran fill through word of mouth and agents. We build a portal for your own communities with unit type availability, virtual tours, viewing booking and reservation fees, plus a company area for employers who lease several villas at once. Waiting lists let families register interest in a unit type that is full today.
Your agents work Dammam, Khobar and Dhahran but enquiries live in personal phones. We build a branded portal for your listings, route each lead to the responsible agent, show response times, and track commission by agent and by city so you can see where the business grows. Agent profiles show FAL details and reviews, which helps new tenants choose who to call.
Room and shared flat operators near the universities need semester terms, reservation fees and clear house rules. We build a room booking portal with gender rules, roommate preferences and reservations that expire if the student does not confirm by a set date. Parents can be added as payers on the reservation if you want them to settle fees directly.
How we work together
Dammam projects run by video call, with discovery split into short sessions so your housing, finance and sales staff only join the parts that concern them. Every session ends with written decisions, and design reviews use clickable prototypes your team can test on their own phones between calls. If you prefer to meet in person, our Riyadh office can host a session. After launch we either stay on as your development team under a support agreement or train your developers and transfer every account and document. Changes to fees, commission splits or moderation rules always need written approval from a named person on your side before they reach the live portal.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Portals with company accounts need careful permissions. We usually build a Next.js front end, a Laravel or Node back end with role based access for companies, brokers and moderators, a database hosted in a Kingdom cloud region, a licensed gateway with mada, and an e-invoicing provider connected to the ledger. Search pages are rendered on the server so that they load quickly and are indexed properly.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Yes, mainly because of corporate housing demand.
Dammam, Al Khobar and Dhahran behave as one rental market with a strong company leasing segment, so offers, approvals and invoices matter more here than in a visitor driven city. The Riyadh rent freeze does not apply in the Eastern Province at present, though we keep price rules configurable by city in case regulation changes. Licensing and Ejar rules are national and apply the same way. Cost and timing depend on how many of these segments go into the first release, the number of payment routes and the depth of the company account tools.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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