01 May 2025
Comparing the main decontrol components
Laws
24 March 2025
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 […]
11 February 2025
The new Reconciliation Law videos provide a simple explanation over three short reels on identifying whether a house is informal or not, as well as the steps to apply for reconciliation for building violations according to the new Reconciliation Law […]
27 November 2024
Fact sheet on the number of rent controlled households, geographic distribution, and the average values
18 September 2024
In the first explanation pamphlet of the new reconciliation law ‘How do I know my home is informal?’, you can find a simple explanation in comic style illustration of the types of building violations according to the new reconciliation law […]
16 September 2024
Steps for legalizing informal homes
13 July 2024
Analysis of new law to legalize informal homes
State Of Housing
Betterment Levies – Development Brief
06 July 2021
In recent years, the government began implementing a fairly old law that’s rarely used, to tax real estate which is adjacent to public urban development projects. And in 2020, a decision was issued to collect in exchange for improvement on all the properties adjacent to the new urban development projects in Cairo. Does this mean that the owners of the properties adjacent to the Heliopolis bridges, Nasr City, and street expansion projects, may pay a tax soon in exchange for the improvement ?!
State Of Housing
Expropriation Law Amendments – Development Brief
26 May 2021
The law of expropriation for the public benefit is one of the most important laws that affect urbanization and daily social life in Cairo. The law has been amended so once in the ten years that have passed regarding compensation and the methods by which money is paid to the beneficiaries / injured. Read more about the amendments to the law and their impact on urbanization and housing in Cairo.
State Of Housing
Real Estate Registration Law Amendments – Development Brief
10 May 2021
The Real Estate Registration Law stipulates that no service provider transfers facilities to the names of new real estate owners or allows facilities to be delivered/supplied to newly built real estate, which was immediately sold unless proof of real estate registration is submitted. After the law was almost neglected by the Landlords, officials began a campaign in February 2021 to remind landlords to register before March 4. Read more about the importance of real estate registration, the reasons why some people object to it, and how it has affected the housing situation and security of tenure in Egypt.
29 April 2021
Analysis of Egypt’s new zoning and building regulations
16 April 2021
A summary of significant events from when the law came into force
16 January 2020
Why is parliament seeking amendments months after passing the laws, and days before it was due to expire.
10 October 2019
A look back at sixty years of legalizing informal buildings in light of the ninth enactment of this so-called ‘temporary’ law
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