Data & Mapping

Fact sheet: Pioneers Properties for Urban Development

Who Owns Cairo: Case Study Companies Overview Company name: Pioneers Properties for Urban Development SAE (Reuters code: PRDC.CA) Established: 2021 (Split from Pioneers Capital now Aspire Capital SAE PIOH.CA, originally est. 1997) Listed on the EGX: 2021 (Split from Pioneers […]

Fact sheet: Porto Group Holding (Arab Developers)

Who Owns Cairo: Case Study Companies Overview Name: Porto Group Holding SAE PORT.CA Name change 2022: Arab Developers Holding SAE ARAB.CA Established: 2015 (Split from Amer Group SAE AMER.CA originally established in 2007) Listed on the EGX: 2015 (Split from […]

Fact Sheet: Palm Hills Development

Who Owns Cairo: Case Study Companies Overview Name: Palm Hills Development Company SAE PHDC.CA Established: 2005 Listed on the EGX: 2008 Other listings: Cross-listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) 2010 – 2020 Scope and activities: Real estate investment in […]

Fact Sheet: Housing & Development Bank

Overview Name: Housing & Development Bank SAE Reuters Code HDBK.CA Established: 1979 Listed on the EGX: 1983 Scope and activities: The Housing and Development Bank SAE is an Egypt-based commercial and investment bank that principally operates in the housing and […]

Fact sheet: Emaar Misr for Development

Who Owns Cairo: Case Study Companies Overview Company name: Emaar Misr for Development SAE (Reuters Code EMFD.CA) Established: 2005 Listed on EGX: 2015 Scope and activities: The company is involved in commercial and residential real estate development projects in Egypt, […]

Who Build Egypt’s Housing 2021

In our second issue of this  Built Environment Observatory fact sheet, we analyse statistics on Egypt’s residential construction up to the latest available year, 2020/2021.

Egypt Road Crash Deaths: The Basic Figures

As more and more new housing is built in remote areas, leading residents to rely ever more on transport, the Built Environment Observatory looks at the facts and figures around road safety in Egypt, with a particular focus on pedestrians. […]

Egypt Rent ٍStatistics 1986-2017

As part of the BEO’s State of Housing 2017 series, this fact sheet presents a current overview of rent in Egypt

BE Archive

The Built Environment Archive is an open online archive of over 7000 Arabic news reports on Egypt’s built environment, going back to 2013. The focus is on projects such as government housing, urban upgrade and renewal, new cities and services. […]

Statistics of Vacant units in Egypt

Table 1: Percentage of vacant units and estimated number of years to fill them This is a theoretical calculation used to show the potential uptake of existing units if they were to be lived in. Calculations are estimated as: Total […]

Population densities in Egypt

 Table 1: Population data, Gross, Inhabited and Built-up Areas by Governorate             Gross area refers to the area of the governorate based on Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) 2015 data. Inhabited area refers to Urban and agricultural land […]

Population Growth Rates in New Cities’

The actual GR for New Cities was calculated as the difference between the 2006 Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) census and an assumed base population at 10% of the target, divided by the number of years between the […]

Population Growth Rate in Egypt

To understand how realistic the population growth rates projected for various projects were, we calculated the most recent actual growth rate per governorate based on census data produced for 1996 and 2006 by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and […]

Sanitation

Over 9.2 million households (53.4%) in Egypt are without improved sanitation. Most households use unsealed septic tanks, or informal sewage networks that discharge raw sewage into canals. Deprivation of improved sanitation is disproportionately high in rural regions in Egypt (Upper […]

Drinking Water

About 17% of Egyptian households are deprived of access to safe water. The highest incidence is in Upper Egypt, where deprivation ranges from 19% to 46%. About 2.3 million households (13.3% of the population) do not have access to a […]

Tenure Security

An estimated 70% of Egyptian households live without secure tenure. The rural Delta governorate of Gharbia had the highest proportion at 93% without secure tenure. The Frontier governorate of South Sinai had the least, at 8% of households. An unspecified […]

Housing durability

Official statistics reveal that about 3.2% of households live in non-durable housing; condemned buildings in a pronounced state of disrepair or in so-called unsafe areas prone to rock-slides and flash floods. While a large portion of these buildings can be […]

Crowding

About 7.7% of Egypt’s population live in extremely crowded conditions (one or two room dwellings). Most of this housing is permanent and may be: standalone shacks; porter or guard’s rooms; old emergency housing; large homes subdivided into rooms; basement rooms […]

Affordability of Buying & Renting

An estimated 54.3% of Egyptians are considered cost burdened. Median rents or house prices surpass what they can comfortably afford: 59.4% of households would have to pay more than 25% of their monthly income to rent the median priced home […]

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