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Cairo\u2019s rental market is running double-digit <\/strong>increase <\/strong>while sales stall \u2014 and <\/strong>developers haven't repriced yet.<\/strong> Asking rents in Sixth of October and New Cairo rose 11.2% and 10.0% y-o-y in 1Q 2026 as inflation-squeezed buyers moved from purchase to lease, according to JLL\u2019s quarterly report (pdf)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sale prices grew at less than half that pace<\/strong>, 5.4% in Sixth of October and 3.1% in New Cairo in the secondary market. Major developers stretched payment plans and offered upfront-buyer discounts to keep volume moving; smaller ones, starved of liquidity, sat out new launches.<\/p>\n

The supply numbers tell the same story. <\/strong>Only 8k units came onto a 333.5k-unit stock during the quarter \u2014 a quiet read for a market that until recently was running hard on new launches.<\/p>\n

The bigger question is the office and commercial market, where the post-March EGP depreciation hasn\u2019t yet shown up in prices. <\/strong>Prime and Grade-A asking rents rose just 1.8% and 2.3% y-o-y \u2014 well below the currency move \u2014 and landlords are \u201creassessing pricing strategies, particularly for local currency contracts,\u201d according to JLL.<\/p>\n

Savills Egypt\u2019s Catesby Langer-Paget tells clients in a <\/strong>note (pdf)<\/a><\/strong> that developers are absorbing cost pressure rather than repricing<\/strong>, helped by buffers built in during the 2024 volatility.<\/p>\n

Our take:<\/strong> The cost stack \u2014 EGP movement, energy costs, supply chain disruptions \u2014 is still moving, and the question isn\u2019t whether the office market reprices, but when, and which landlords blink first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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