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2026 Q3 (July to September)

Alexandria Rent Price Index – 2026 Q2 (April to June) In the first edition of the Alexandria Rent Index, we track new rental rates for unfurnished residential apartments citywide. Rent indices are important because they bring transparency to the market, […]

2026 Q2 (April to June)

Bringing a balance between expropriation powers and their social burdens

Can help ensure social spending from state-owned investments

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 […]