Real Estate

While Egypt’s formal real estate market has become a crucial and high-performing segment of the economy, it has struggled to tackle the challenge of affordable housing. Egypt suffers from a chronic housing deficit of up to 3m homes, with annual demand for new homes reaching as high as 500,000 units. Previous administrations have sought to...

As Egypt is poised for rapid construction growth, the cement industry will become increasingly important as the bedrock of the sector. While the industry has plenty of capacity, it remains vulnerable to energy availability and pricing. As the last year has shown, a spike in fuel prices can hit the cement industry, and thus the whole...

The Egyptian property market is constantly undergoing reform. While mortgages are difficult to obtain and disputes can be complex, the system as a whole is remarkably effective. People regularly buy and sell real estate, and a functioning market exists despite the lack of a best-practices system of recording.

Egypt’s construction pipeline is stocked with a wide variety of projects, from highway expansion to hospitals and schools. However, a primary source of future contracts is likely to be the housing segment, as the government has committed to alleviating the country’s chronic and long-standing housing deficit. Furthermore, despite recent...

Market pressures that have weighed on Oman’s real estate sector since oil prices fell from their historic highs three years ago continue to affect its performance, and the state has adjusted to lower revenues by trimming budgets and paring back some investments. Growth in public payrolls and jobs – a key driver of real estate demand – slowed...

Four initiatives under way at the Ministry of Housing (MoH) could have a considerable impact on the broader real estate sector over the course of 2018, namely the centralised processing of transactions, passage of new regulations, software to ease information collection and create indices, and an affordable housing programme. “The aim is to...