{"id":673592,"date":"2025-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/10\/15\/samih-sawiris-says-the-state-is-finally-recognizing-investors-importance\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:00:00","slug":"samih-sawiris-says-the-state-is-finally-recognizing-investors-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/10\/15\/samih-sawiris-says-the-state-is-finally-recognizing-investors-importance\/","title":{"rendered":"Samih Sawiris says the state is finally recognizing investors\u2019 importance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Lamees El Hadidi sat down with Egyptian businessman Samih Sawiris on her <\/strong><strong>show El Sora<\/strong> \u2014 the two discussed the investment landscape and the local real estate bubble (runtime: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/25279719081651977\/?__cft__[0]=AZViNQnVy7BC84kyO6DTNy6NGfGD6dn3VvejJAUrz5UabSyo4FkY0R-TjhX2la7l9OfqV2C8_qBhO8hT8zVQu9yE3Pnnitk8zCLlQLEQS-aNb7x249xVVHIqbunfhavjzOb_lO-302GjJM9MslPd2ydyYK9Kq1C31EIGZy0gVZdQh-UidvMn2tHKizN9kq8tpGzYyd1Y01JWXm_xqGiXHfiX&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">02:09<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1342084780602022\/?__cft__[0]=AZWZRphjyflTTi6ISgScbZFXH-kYmK9yEpDZCD6SuNP7BOiC1SI3fzRsFmSNGWVwLnTv3hsQyGg6IjsShF5nEAikB0Oz0aprqSDg7R_9ISwk7EbsT-8tTv2DxtpoUNEgFCfneu7QabRKkdm5XD9PfUh0NwG6N24p9t1FMSOpwERZryQ2q1cshwmPBTP_i4Dnx_7equdQ5L3QIo8zYoOAwIRq&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">03:14<\/a>). Sawiris said that 2025 marks the first year he feels the government has begun to recognize \u201cthe importance of investors, both large and small,\u201d adding that moving forward more steps need to be taken to remove barriers faced by investors to attract new investment and expand existing ones. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\">(<strong>Tap or click the headline above to read this story with all of the links <\/strong>to our background as well as external sources.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>On the slowdown in the real estate market, Sawiris said the correction was necessary<\/strong>, adding that he is pleased with the decline in sales as the previous pace had signaled the risk of a bubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sawiris added that the real estate market slowdown was a needed correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":673593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7232],"tags":[72,106,83,1844],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-673592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-last-nights-talk-shows","tag-enterpriseam","tag-last-nights-talk-shows","tag-real-estate","tag-samih-sawiris","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"35adf075-b848-4954-afaa-41eaaa6c3c66","order":"12","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/10\/699.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Samih Sawiris says the state is finally recognizing investors\u2019 importance","related_issue":[673572],"teaser":"Sawiris added that the real estate market slowdown was a needed correction","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/10\/.167af608-a28b-4a02-bd15-cebd1c8ee34f.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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