Need help to find a good accommodation in jeddah!

Compounds have a 6-12 month waiting list in Jeddah.  Furthermore, 2-room places range from 70k to 110k, and 3-room places 100k to 150k.  Plus, the industrial area in Jeddah and the schools you mentioned are at opposite ends of the city, as in there is a distance of about 30 to 40 km between them.

If you still want a place in one of the several compounds near those schools, the best thing to do will be to go visit them all and put your name down on the waiting list.  In the meantime, for about a year, you will have to live in an apartment/villa not on a compound.  A 2-3 room apartment in that area will cost about 30-50k, as it is a premium area (in contrast, you can get a 4-5 room apartment in Aziziah district, where the Pakistani and Indian communities are concentrated, for about 20-30k).  An independent villa near the schools will start from about 60k.

Let me know if you are still interested in compounds so I can give you lists of compounds with their addresses.

Thank you v much for Trapezius for this useful information. I would really appreciate if you could send me the names of some compounds near these schools which offered school buses too. Not necessarily, but like to have some pakistani families over there.

Thanks in advance.

Here are some lists, some more comprehensive than others:

​​http://about-jeddah.blogspot.com/2008/12/compounds-information_24.html
​​http://issuu.com/djmagzine/docs/jan48  page 112
​​http://onlinejeddah.com/category/directory/housing-and-compounds/housing-compounds/
​http://www.destinationjeddah.com/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1636
http://www.jeddahpoint.com/housing-comp … -list.htmlhttp://jeddah-blog.com/2013/02/13/jedda … s-housing/

​Look for compounds in the following districts: Naeem, Mohammadiyah, Shati, Basateen, Zahra, Salama.

Some compounds I would recommend, in no particular order, near to the western schools:

Hajarayn (I lived here until July 2013, for 5.5 years)
Rumaih
Shaker
Andalus
Sierra
Basateen
Belleveue
Lotus
Sari Palm
Saudia City

(I have been inside all of them)

Links above will give you descriptions and perhaps pics as well, but you can google for pics.  Find other suitable ones from the links.

Contact them for latest prices, and to put your name down on their lists.  Better yet, make appointments with the managers to go visit so you can see inside with your own eyes.  Put your name down on all, even the ones at the bottom of your preference list, because trust me, living in pretty much any compound in this country is better than living in the poshest triple story villa--rent SR 200,000+/year--not on a compound, and this is especially true if you have kids.

Good luck!

P.S. Look here as well, and the links are also links, so you don't have to copy paste:

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.p … 49#1619154

WOW! loads of information!
Bundle of thanks for this.

Any idea about sharbatly?

Hello trapezius could please give me the phone number of al hajarayn compounds manager!? I keep on calling on thier normal phone number that I found on the website IT IS correct but they have a problem with thier transfer I can't get through .. It's urgent! Many thanks

moving to jeddah can anyone list good compounds with teenage kids near american school or british school . with own private pool

See my post, I already posted names of compounds near the Western schools, plus links to compound lists.

@Trapezius: Need your reviews about Al Rumaih compound

I have been inside it once, and it was at night.  It is not a fancy or premium compound like Basateen, but the location is definitely premium, right next to the Red Sea.  The people I was visiting definitely had a very nicely furnished villa.  I would definitely recommend it, but I have no idea about the prices there.

I think arabian homes etc good would prefer villa with private pool

I don't think any compound has villas with their own private pools. It wouldn't benefit them to take care of pools for individuals.

@ Trapezius: Thanks for your reply. Actually there was a 2 bedroom available and I visited the compound today and its nice n clean compound.
@stressedmom: There are some compounds which offer villas with pools, e.g Binzagr villa compound

The compounds which have villas with pools are all small compounds, as in 20 units or less, and usually just 5-10 units.  Each unit is an independent 2 story villa with its own entrance from the street outside, a pool, garden, etc., and a very small compound shared space inside.  Basically, they are more like a collection of large villas in one place.  Quite a few such small ones in Rawdah, Zahra, and Shatee districts.

@mmudassar, glad there is availability... Quite rare these days to find an available unit without a waiting list.  What was the rent, just for everybody's benefit?  Are you taking it?

@ Trapezius, Well the 2-bedroom villa is 90,000 (unfurnished) and 80,000 for 2 bedroom apartment (unfurnished). I am still thinking for taking this because they are far from my place and villas are not much spacious.
I visited Binzagr and Nada too.
Binzagr an apartment of 2 bedroom available but again looks small n compound is itself not big .Rent: 73,000 for 2 bedroom apartment unfurnished/
I visited Nada, really spacious n greenish though houses r quite old but still big house.