Giza Rent Price Index – 2026 Q2 (April to June) In the first edition of the Greater Cairo Rent Index, we track new rental rates for unfurnished residential apartments in the city of Giza. Rent indices are important because they […]
Giza Rent Price Index – 2026 Q2 (April to June) In the first edition of the Greater Cairo Rent Index, we track new rental rates for unfurnished residential apartments in the city of Giza. Rent indices are important because they […]
Bringing a balance between expropriation powers and their social burdens
The Built Environment Observatory welcomes the approval by the House of Representatives’ Planning and Budget Committee of the draft law titled “Transferring a Percentage of State-Owned Companies’ Net Profits to the Public Treasury,” submitted by the government. The draft law […]
Analysis of housing construction statistics up to FY 2023/2024
Commentary on key important amendments and proposals for broader reform
An analysis of the scale of public benefit decrees and expropriation decrees issued under the Expropriation for Public Benefit Law 10/1990
Shedding some light on the urban and demographic transformations of Egypt’s second largest city between 1947 and today
Four main pillars for reform: Fair treatment of existing contracts, rent increases based on legal rather than market values, cash support for the most vulnerable tenants, and reform of the rental system as a whole, of both Old Rent and New Rent
Comparing the main decontrol components
In Part I of a three part series that tackles the Supreme Constitutional Court ruling annulling fixed rents for Egypt’s Old Rent law, we analyse the constitutional court ruling’s key opinions, outline parliament’s response and stakeholder reactions, and summarise the […]
An annual factsheet analysing housing production and the real estate in Egypt
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