Real Estate

Several years of instability have brought difficulties for Egypt’s economy, although the impact has varied across sectors. However, the country is experiencing a recovery, with the IMF estimating that GDP will increase by 5.5% in 2019, up from 5.3% in 2018.

Urbanisation is a mega-trend redefining contemporary life in both developed and emerging markets across the globe. This mass rural-urban movement of people and expansion of cities to absorb formerly isolated villages is a relatively recent phenomenon: in 1950, only 751m people lived in urban areas. By 2018, however, the number of urban...

As residents move away from rural areas, cities in Indonesia are increasingly feeling the pressures of urbanisation. To improve quality of life in increasingly congested urban centres, the government has adopted the 100 Smart City Movement, an initiative that aims to establish 100 technologically advanced cities across the archipelago by the...

Supported by strong fundamentals, Indonesia continues to break ground on major construction projects. Fuelled by a comprehensive public infrastructure agenda, large-scale developments have become the norm. However, while the construction sector remains an important pillar of the country’s economy, project development is still hindered by...

Indonesia has a significant and growing shortfall of housing. Existing supply is in poor condition and demand is rising for new units. This is especially true for affordable housing in urban areas, where more than one-fifth of the population live in slums. Recognising the issue, the government unveiled a series of policies aimed at...

Amid efforts to accelerate the delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects, reform of the country’s legal framework governing land ownership has become an important enabler of development. On the back of rising infrastructure growth in recent years, land procurement executors have been formally encouraged to acquire suitable land, with...