Zakah on the price of a rest house before delivery

Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, I have a sum of money, and I used this money to buy a rest house, but the transfer of ownership will take place after the festival in Shawwal. The question is: Is there zakah due on this money, which is the value of the rest house?

Answer:
If a lunar year has passed over the money before you bought the rest house, before you paid it, if a lunar year passed over it before you paid it as the price for the rest house, then zakah is obligatory on it. Likewise, if it remained with you and you did not pay it because the procedures were not completed, and the price remained with you while you intended it for the rest house, then zakah is also obligatory on it, because it is still in your ownership. But if you paid it before a lunar year had passed over it, meaning you bought it with it and paid the seller before a lunar year had passed over it, then there is no zakah on it. Yes.