Half Moon Bay

Half Moon Bay curves along the Gulf coast south of Al Khobar, its arc of sand famed for spectacular sunsets. This is the Eastern Province's weekend escape, a leisure landscape of resorts, beach chalets and holiday villas where affluent families come for the beaches, watersports and a slower coastal pace. It is a place for second homes and getaways rather than daily city life. For investors, Half Moon Bay offers resort and chalet stock tied to leisure demand, inside Saudi Arabia's opening ownership regime. The honest caveats are that second-home assets are discretionary, more cyclical and less liquid than core residential stock, and the wider Eastern Province's oil-and-gas dependence leaves demand exposed to energy swings.

Half Moon Bay in Al Khobar, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia