Transferring Ownership Between Owners

Not every change of owner is a sale. A plot passes from a father to his sons. Two companies in the same group move a property between them at an agreed internal price. A partner is bought out and the title has to follow. None of these should run through the sales cycle — there is no reservation, no installment plan, no commission, no handover — but the title still has to move and an entry still has to be made.

That is what the ownership transfer document is for: one screen, four fields, one journal entry.

Real Estate and Property > Documents > OwnerShip Transfer Document (العقارات و الممتلكات > المستندات > سند تحويل ملكية)

What Is on the Screen

The document is deliberately short:

Field	What it is for
Source document	the sales contract or opening sales contract that put the estate in the current owner's hands
Transferred estate	the property whose title is moving — a land plot, a block or a rental unit
From Owner (من مالك)	who holds the title today
To Owner (إلي مالك)	who will hold it after this document
Price and currency	the agreed transfer price

Both owner fields only offer parties with the Owner role ticked — see Owners, Buyers and Standard Contract Clauses if the party you want is missing from the list.

Let the source document fill the form

You can type the four fields by hand, but the fast path is to start from the source document. Pick the sales contract that originally sold the estate and the screen fills itself: the transferred estate is taken from that contract — its plot or its block — and the from-owner, the to-owner, the price and the currency all arrive prefilled from the same contract. You then change the to-owner to whoever is actually receiving the title and adjust the price to what was agreed today.

If you skip the source document and pick the transferred estate first, both owner fields default to the estate's current owner, and you overwrite the to-owner. Either route ends in the same place; starting from the source document simply saves typing and guarantees you are transferring the thing that was actually sold.

What Happens When You Commit

Two things, in this order.

1. The estate's title is rewritten. The system opens the transferred estate and stores the to-owner as its original owner and the document's price as its price, then saves it. From that moment the plot or block reports the new party as its owner everywhere it appears — on its own screen, in list views, in the owner's related-records page.

2. The transfer is recorded in the ledger. The document creates one debit line and one credit line, both for the transfer price in the document's currency, with the from-owner on the supplier side and the to-owner on the customer side, and the document's remarks as the narration. As with every accounting effect in Nama, that entry is created as a business request processed in the background; if it fails, it is retried from the Business Requests list view (More menu → Reprocess / Recommit).

Which accounts the two lines hit comes from the document's own term (توجيه). Its single Effects page holds the debit and the credit side of the transfer price — the accounts, the subsidiary source and the dimensions for each. Both sides have to be configured for the entry to be produced; see Collection, Maintenance, Investment and Cost Document Terms.

Land plots and blocks are rewritten; a rental unit is not

The title write-back described in step 1 applies to land plots and blocks, where the owner and the price live directly on the record. A rental unit tracks its ownership differently — through its buyer and the contracts on it rather than through an owner and price you can overwrite — so a transfer of a unit records the transaction and produces its journal entry, but leaves the unit's own owner and price fields as they were. If you need the unit itself to show the new party, do it on the unit's own screen after committing the transfer.

The Worked Example

Land plot LX-04 in Block 3 of Palm Compound was sold in March 2024 to owner A for 1,000,000 on an ordinary sales contract. A year later owner A transfers the title to owner B for 1,200,000.

1. Open a new ownership transfer document and pick the March 2024 sales contract as the source document. Plot LX-04, owner A as the from-owner, owner A as the to-owner and 1,000,000 all appear.
2. Change the to-owner to owner B and the price to 1,200,000.
3. Commit.

Plot LX-04 now shows owner B as its original owner and 1,200,000 as its price. A single entry is processed for 1,200,000, with owner A on the supplier side and owner B on the customer side, against the accounts named on the transfer document's term. The plot's Land Status is untouched — it was sold before this document and it is still sold; what changed is who owns it.

Where the Transfers Show Up Afterwards

You do not have to go looking through the documents list. Every transfer appears on the estate it moved:

• a block lists its transfers on its Related Records page;
• a land plot has a page of its own dedicated to them (سندات تحويل ملكية).

Between them, and the party's own related-records page, the full chain of custody of a plot is readable from either end.

Where to Go Next

• How Properties Are Modelled — what the owner, original owner and buyer fields on an estate actually mean.
• The Sales Contract — the document that put the estate in the current owner's hands, and the normal way ownership changes.