Abdullah Talib, Director General of the Housing Bank, confirmed that the new digital services that were developed on the “Bayti” real estate platform aim to facilitate procedures for citizens coming to benefit from one of the options of the housing financing program, by converting the procedural transactions to benefit from housing financing to provide housing into digital services, indicating that this comes within the framework of joint efforts with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning to implement the objectives of the government program 2023-2026, regarding supporting projects to digitize government services and transactions and make them completely electronic.
The Director General of the Housing Bank indicated that the most prominent new features included in the “Bayti” real estate platform are the “digital tracking” feature, which enables the citizen to follow the status of his application submitted to benefit from one of the options of the housing financing program from the stage of application until the stage of allocation and receipt of the service, through an integrated electronic system that provides updated information about the path of the application and the party responsible for each stage, which contributes to accelerating procedures and enhancing the efficiency and quality of services provided to beneficiaries.
He also explained that the second advantage is enabling the citizen to reserve his residential property electronically through the platform, in addition to obtaining a financing offer from several banks financed through the platform, which allows the citizen to benefit from housing financing directly from the banks participating in the housing financing programs, as the banks review the citizen’s data and submit their financing offers digitally through the application, so that the citizen can view them, compare them, and choose the most appropriate offer, and thus this feature allows the financing bank the opportunity to complete the citizen’s procedures in the fastest and easiest way possible.
Abdullah Talib added that the third feature is the “Digital Real Estate Valuation” feature, which is the service that the application is unique in launching for the first time in the region. This service will be available to beneficiaries of “Tas’heel” options, for those who benefit from financing through the Housing Bank. This service allows the citizen to request the digital real estate valuation service, pay the valuation fees, and receive the valuation report electronically, as the application has been linked directly with a number of accredited valuation offices in the Kingdom, which contributes to facilitating Procedures and raising the efficiency of services provided to citizens.
Talib stressed that the Housing Bank is constantly keen to keep pace with digital transformation efforts in the social housing sector, which contributes to accelerating the pace of procedures for benefiting from the options of the housing financing program, and working to reduce and facilitate them, with the aim of saving time and effort for citizens. He pointed out the bank’s keenness to cooperate with all relevant private sector entities to enhance the services of the “Bayti” application, which, for its part, showed great response, pointing out that the new features available through the application constitute a qualitative shift in the path of digital housing services that we provide in the Kingdom.
It is worth noting that the “Bayti” application showed progress and widespread participation on the part of users, following the innovation conference and exhibition in the social housing sector organized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning and the Housing Bank in the period from April to September 2025. During this period, the application achieved growth in the number of its users from 30,511 in April to 40,657 in September, representing an increase of 33%.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning and the Housing Bank call on all citizens to benefit from the digital services provided by the “Bayti 2.0” application, and to benefit from the new features and innovative digital services, which embody the leadership of the Kingdom of Bahrain in the field of modern housing solutions, and consolidate its position in developing innovative models that support the national digital transformation process.
