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Mapping the Fallout of the 1992 Dahshur (Egypt) Earthquake
06 September 2023
Geographic mapping of damaged buildings, affected families, and deaths.
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The state of housing series covers key housing and urban topics in Egypt year on year
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The Maadi Company: A Real Estate Enterprise from Nationalisation to (Re)Privatisation
06 June 2023
Part II of the Taamir series looks at the history of a leading public real estate developer
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Estimating the Size of Public Sector Real Estate in Egypt
18 April 2023
Part of the Taamir series on public real estate development in Egypt
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The October 92 Earthquake | 30 Years On
12 October 2022
A series commemorating the 30th anniversary of the October 1992 Earthquake in Egypt
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Who Owns Cairo? II | Ownership Analysis
16 September 2022
A comprehensive overview of the Egypt’s real estate sector showing Cairo’s top landholders, their typologies and nationalities
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Who Owns Cairo? I | Case Study Companies
12 September 2022
Ten detailed fact sheets on landholdings and company ownership
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Who Owns Cairo? | Methodology
12 September 2022
Study methodology on ownership structures and landholdings
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Who Owns Cairo? | Introduction
12 September 2022
An empirical study of real estate development in Egypt
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Background Paper 2 | Government of Egypt Investments
11 September 2022
The Government of Egypt (GoE) was found to be an investor in five of the ten listed real estate companies in our case study. The pattern of investment constituted two main branches of the Executive – the Cabinet mainly, and […]
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Background Paper 1 | Disclosure Requirements
11 September 2022
All stock exchange regulators require a minimum level of shareholder disclosure from the listed companies: i.e. that either companies declare who owns their stock, or, that investors declare what stock they own. These disclosures are typically required to show investors […]
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Background Paper 3 | Foreign Ownership on the Stock Exchange
11 September 2022
Foreign Ownership on the Egyptian Stock Exchange
08 March 2022
In our Egypt State of Housing 2022 series, we focus on the state of women and housing in Egypt. Women and housing series looks at the gendered reality of women’s housing situations from a perspective of the right to safe and independent housing. In Part 4 we look at eviction threats as a manifestation of gendered housing access, the case of single women renters.
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Women and Housing 3: Systemic Barriers to Women’s Right to Adequate, Safe and Independent Housing in Egypt
28 February 2022
In our Egypt State of Housing 2022 series, we focus on the state of women and housing in Egypt. Women and housing series looks at the gendered reality of women’s housing situations from a perspective of the right to safe and independent housing. Here, we take a closer look at the systemic barriers towards these rights.
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Women and Housing 2: Residents not Detainees
16 December 2021
In our Egypt State of Housing 2022 series, we focus on the state of women and housing in Egypt. Women and housing series looks at the gendered reality of women’s housing situations from a perspective of the right to safe and independent housing. In Part 2 we answer questions of how and why these housing rights for women are a necessity.
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Women and Housing I: Why Women and Housing?
27 November 2021
In our Egypt State of Housing 2022 series, we focus on the gendered reality of women’s housing situations from a perspective of the right to safe and independent housing. In Part I- we introduce the series by identifying the problem and the questions to be addressed.
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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 ?!
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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.
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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
31 October 2018
The legal and political proceedings around the disaster and their findings
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The Duweika Disaster Ten Years On – Part 2: Forced Evictions
30 October 2018
The urban-social aftermath of the disaster, and a spike in forced evictions and relocation
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The Duweika Disaster Ten Years On – Part 1: Disaster and Aftermath
07 September 2018
A series spotlighting one of the major urban and social events the city witnessed in contemporary times
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Old Rent: Survival Tactics to Live in the City
26 June 2018
As parliament edges closer to liberalising rent control in Egypt (known as Old Rent), the State of Housing 2017 series looks at the problems behind it and possible equitable solutions.
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Despite Cost, “New Rent” Leaves Tenants Wanting
26 February 2018
First hand experiences of a number of low income families in their pursuit to rent an adequate home under “New Rent” (market rent)
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Egypt Rent ٍStatistics 1986-2017
19 February 2018
As part of the BEO’s State of Housing 2017 series, this fact sheet presents a current overview of rent in Egypt
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A Tied Life: The Rise and Fall of Company Town Housing in Egypt
30 January 2018
As part of the BEO’s 2017 | State of Rent series, we take a look at in-kind housing, a from of tenure linked to one’s employer where rent is deducted from the salary, hence known as tied accommodation. Based on the […]
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Analysis: Government Policy Commodifies Housing
17 November 2017
Recent government policy developing high end housing and deregulating property market further commodify housing
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Electricity Facts 2017/2018 | Price Hikes Continue
13 November 2017
Examining the effects of electricity price hikes on poor and middle-income households, and questioning their justifications
17 June 2017
A detailed analysis of population and needs-based public spending on housing, urban development, drinking water, sanitation and electricity
15 May 2017
The Built Environment Budget 2016/2017, is The Built Environment Observatory’s second annual report analysing public spending on the built environment sectors in Egypt (Click here to read last year’s BE Budget 15/16). BE Budget 16/17 continues to shed light on […]
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Myths and Facts of Urban Planning in Egypt
20 November 2016
As Egyptians, we have been raised since the 1950s with the notion that the Nile Valley and Delta, permanent home to our civilisation for over 7000 years, is overcrowded and cannot accommodate any more people. As architects and planners we have been trained over the last half century almost solely on designing mega regional, urban and land reclamation plans in the vacant desert. The purpose of these is to “redistribute the population” and absorb future population growth.
19 November 2016
Introduction[1] Have you ever wondered whether the government was spending enough on transport? Or whether your governorate got its fair share of public expenditure? Or how strong national policy favoured New Cities? The Built Environment Budget series, starting with an […]
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The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Electricity
18 November 2016
*This section is part of BE Budget 2015/2016 Total Spending on Electricity About 90% of the electricity budget went to power stations and National networks (Table 16). Of the remainder, most (8.5% of the total) was spent on the construction […]
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The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Housing
18 November 2016
*This section is part of BE Budget 2015/2016 Total Spending on Housing A total expenditure of EGP 23.3 Bn translates to a national per capita spending of 259 EGP per person (Table 17). Over half of that is spent […]
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The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Urban Development
18 November 2016
*This section is part of BE Budget 2015/2016 Total Sub-national Spending on Urban Development While total spending on Urban Development was 6.6 Bn EGP, three quarters of that spending was for one New City in Cairo; the New Administrative Capital […]
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The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Waste-water
18 November 2016
*This section is part of BE Budget 2015/2016 Total Sub-national Spending on Waste-water Public spending on waste-water treatment stations and networks totalled 9.9 Bn EGP. This translates to a per capita spending of 109 EGP per person (Table 19). With […]
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The Built Environment Budget 15/16 |Water
18 November 2016
*This section is part of BE Budget 2015/2016 Total Sub-national Spending on Water Public spending on drinking water treatment stations and networks totalled 5.3 Bn EGP. This translates to a total per capita share of 58 EGP per person (Table […]
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Statistics of Vacant units in Egypt
14 November 2016
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 […]
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Population densities in Egypt
09 November 2016
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 […]
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Population Growth Rates in New Cities’
09 November 2016
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 […]
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Population Growth Rate in Egypt
09 November 2016
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 […]
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