On October 30, 2026, I collected the apartment listings shown on Aqarmap's search pages, for sale and for rent, area by area: upscale districts (New Cairo, Sheikh Zayed, Heliopolis, Maadi), middle ones (6th of October, Nasr City) and popular ones (Faisal, Haram, Helwan, Ain Shams), plus Alexandria, the New Administrative Capital and the Red Sea coast. After removing listings without a price, obvious errors and 29 listings filed under one district while their title names another, 5,069 were left: 2,785 for sale and 2,284 for rent. Every figure below is a median in Egyptian pounds (EGP).
These are asking prices. What a flat actually sells or rents for is usually lower, and many compound units are sold in instalments, which the listed price does not show.
What these numbers describe. Aqarmap covers ordinary neighbourhoods well: Faisal, Haram, Helwan and Ain Shams each have more than 10,000 flats for sale on the site. But Egypt has two housing markets side by side: new developer compounds, and ordinary buildings on ordinary streets. Up to 10 search pages per area were read in the site's default order, where new projects tend to come first, so compounds weigh heavily in the upscale districts. The next sections split every figure between the two.
Price per m²: from 65,091 EGP in Heliopolis to 11,802 in Faisal
The Red Sea coast leads (75,000 EGP per m², mostly resort flats in Hurghada and Sahl Hasheesh), then Heliopolis (65,091), Sheikh Zayed (60,580) and Alexandria (54,200). The popular districts sit in a different market: Haram 14,096, Helwan 13,500, Ain Shams 12,764 and Faisal 11,802. A square metre listed in Heliopolis costs about 5.5 times one in Faisal.
Compounds or ordinary buildings: about double
In the same district, a square metre inside a compound is listed at roughly twice the price of one in an ordinary building: 57,751 against 28,205 EGP in New Cairo, 72,727 against 38,324 in Heliopolis, 70,625 against 37,804 in Sheikh Zayed. Maadi is the exception: its ordinary buildings are listed slightly above its compounds. The popular districts have almost no compound listings at all, which is a large part of why they are cheaper.
Median asking price per m² for sale, in EGP (listings in brackets; a group needs at least 15 listings):
| Area | In compounds | Ordinary buildings | Share in compounds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Sea | 78,623 (131) | 63,098 (88) | 60% |
| Heliopolis | 72,727 (134) | 38,324 (70) | 66% |
| Sheikh Zayed | 70,625 (182) | 37,804 (36) | 83% |
| Alexandria | 58,044 (96) | 42,000 (115) | 45% |
| New Capital | 42,500 (196) | none | 100% |
| New Cairo | 57,751 (120) | 28,205 (99) | 55% |
| Maadi | 31,117 (144) | 36,900 (72) | 67% |
| Nasr City | 39,134 (18) | 30,556 (187) | 9% |
| 6th of October | 26,190 (116) | 20,938 (103) | 53% |
| Haram | none | 14,096 (220) | 0% |
| Helwan | none | 13,500 (220) | 0% |
| Ain Shams | none | 12,764 (220) | 0% |
| Faisal | too few (1) | 11,786 (217) | 0% |
A listing counts as "in a compound" when its location names a compound, a residence or a developer (for example "Rock Yard Compound" or "Marriott Residence - A Capital Holding"); otherwise it is an ordinary building on a street.
Flat size
Few listings in the sample are one-bedroom flats, so the comparison is between two and three bedrooms. Small units cost more per m² where compounds dominate: in Heliopolis two-bedroom flats are listed at 102,000 EGP per m² against 43,333 for three bedrooms. In the popular districts the size makes little difference.
Median asking price per m² for sale, in EGP, by number of bedrooms:
| Area | 2 bedrooms | 3 bedrooms |
|---|---|---|
| Red Sea | 66,475 (58) | 78,771 (45) |
| Heliopolis | 102,000 (36) | 43,333 (72) |
| Sheikh Zayed | 53,571 (57) | 56,734 (108) |
| Alexandria | 57,750 (27) | 43,353 (95) |
| New Capital | too few (12) | 42,717 (90) |
| New Cairo | 47,826 (43) | 32,500 (133) |
| Maadi | 30,216 (40) | 32,727 (147) |
| Nasr City | 34,821 (23) | 30,286 (135) |
| 6th of October | 26,000 (31) | 24,453 (144) |
| Haram | 13,889 (31) | 13,448 (163) |
| Helwan | 12,327 (74) | 13,500 (126) |
| Ain Shams | 12,222 (77) | 13,793 (131) |
| Faisal | 11,887 (32) | 11,892 (161) |
Rent: from 40,000 EGP a month in Sheikh Zayed to 6,500 in Faisal
The median asking rent is 40,000 EGP a month in Sheikh Zayed, 35,000 in New Cairo, 25,000 in Nasr City and 23,000 in Alexandria and 6th of October. In the popular districts it is 9,000 in Helwan, 7,500 in Haram and Ain Shams and 6,500 in Faisal. The Red Sea and New Capital had too few rental listings for a figure.
For a two-bedroom flat, the median is 45,000 EGP a month in New Cairo, 19,500 in 6th of October and 5,500 in Faisal: about eight times the gap for the same number of rooms.
Rent or buy: ordinary buildings compared with ordinary buildings
Because the sale listings in upscale districts are mostly compounds while many rentals are ordinary flats, this ratio is computed on ordinary buildings only, for sale and for rent. It ranges from 10.5 years of rent in 6th of October, about 9.6% gross a year, to more than 26 years in Maadi and Alexandria. For comparison, the same measure is 12.3 years in Casablanca and 14.8 in Tunis.
Compounds and streets: from 179,601 to 10,000 EGP per m²
At least 15 listings for sale
Counting only compounds and streets with at least 15 listings for sale, the most expensive is Marriott Residence in Heliopolis, a new project listed at 179,601 EGP per m², then ZED by Ora in Sheikh Zayed (150,986) and the International Coastal Road in Alexandria (122,515). At the other end are Nazlet El Batran in Haram (10,857) and El Eshrein Street in Ain Shams (10,000).
Every compound and street, area by area
Compounds and streets with at least 8 listings for sale, from the most to the least expensive per m² (EGP). Treat groups of 8 to 15 listings as a rough indication.
Red Sea: 8 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| One 7 Resort - Kronberg | 59 | 85,606 |
| Lazuli Resort - Rekaz | 10 | 77,815 |
| Magawish Resort | 21 | 72,600 |
| Hurghada Resorts | 20 | 68,500 |
| Atlantis Resort - Castello | 18 | 62,163 |
| Iconic Resort - Emperor | 17 | 55,000 |
| Sea View Land | 11 | 42,000 |
| Oyster Bay Resort | 8 | 41,429 |
Heliopolis: 4 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| Marriott Residence - A Capital Holding | 43 | 179,601 |
| Stoda Residence - IL Cazar | 22 | 70,574 |
| Rock Yard Compound | 55 | 68,273 |
| Morabaa El Wozaraa | 12 | 41,146 |
Sheikh Zayed: 11 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| ZED El Sheikh Zayed Compound - Ora | 17 | 150,986 |
| Solana Compound - Ora | 9 | 122,800 |
| Jirian Compound - Palm Hills | 13 | 122,358 |
| Village West Compound - Dorra | 29 | 104,790 |
| V Levels Compound - Dunes | 9 | 74,769 |
| Jazal Compound - Legacy Estate | 20 | 68,099 |
| Genista Compound - Al Amaken | 19 | 47,208 |
| Dahya Compound - Al Oula | 12 | 40,000 |
| The Flow -Zaya | 14 | 39,375 |
| ORI Compound - Al Oula | 12 | 35,000 |
| Ev Compound - Al Oula | 11 | 35,000 |
Alexandria: 6 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| International Coastal Road | 15 | 122,515 |
| Sawary | 29 | 86,250 |
| King Mariout | 23 | 57,200 |
| Smouha | 63 | 54,100 |
| Kafr Abdo | 11 | 46,667 |
| Miami | 9 | 27,742 |
New Capital: 8 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| Midtown Sky Compound - Better Home | 8 | 44,442 |
| De Joya 4 Compound - Taj Misr | 25 | 44,204 |
| Oro Compound - AMG | 28 | 43,950 |
| Suli Golf Residence - UC Development | 8 | 41,485 |
| Moraya Compound - Edge Stone | 24 | 41,443 |
| Town Gate Compound - Smart View | 12 | 39,366 |
| IL Mondo Compound - Rfco | 16 | 37,850 |
| Midtown Condo Compound - Better Home | 33 | 34,281 |
New Cairo: 4 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| Beta Greens Compound - Beta Egypt | 12 | 88,498 |
| Isola Centra Compound - El Masria Group | 10 | 60,679 |
| Fourth Neighborhood | 10 | 28,837 |
| New Narges | 12 | 28,514 |
Maadi: 8 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| El Maadi Ring Road | 16 | 66,148 |
| Club Town Compound - Wadi Degla | 36 | 61,338 |
| Eighth Neighborhood | 14 | 36,800 |
| Maadi Grand City - Morshedy Group | 8 | 29,642 |
| Ashgar Darna Compound - M Squared | 38 | 28,342 |
| Grand Gate - Morshedy Group | 9 | 26,929 |
| Darna Compound - M Squared | 18 | 25,758 |
| El Baron City Compound - OUD | 8 | 25,305 |
Nasr City: 5 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| Degla Towers - Morshedy Group | 8 | 45,199 |
| Mostafa El Nahaas St. | 8 | 35,243 |
| Abbas El Akkad St. | 12 | 33,434 |
| Makram Ebeid St. | 10 | 33,250 |
| Ahmed El Zomor St. | 17 | 25,116 |
6th of October: 5 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Capital Compound - Arabia | 18 | 81,497 |
| Address Home Compound - Arkan | 22 | 26,000 |
| Mukhabarat Land | 8 | 22,000 |
| Northern Tourist Expansions | 9 | 16,897 |
| Golden Square | 10 | 9,583 |
Haram: 8 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| El Remaya | 9 | 19,231 |
| El Haram St. | 21 | 17,561 |
| El Mesaha | 14 | 16,333 |
| El Mariotia Tunnel St. | 14 | 14,803 |
| Soltan Khattab St. | 9 | 12,424 |
| El Magzar El Aly St. | 30 | 11,946 |
| El Lebeny | 18 | 11,291 |
| Nazlet El Batran | 16 | 10,857 |
Helwan: 6 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| Helwan Nile Corniche | 8 | 18,400 |
| Mohamed Sayed Ahmed St. | 19 | 15,357 |
| Abd El Rahman Pasha St. | 9 | 14,762 |
| Khesro Basha St. | 12 | 13,500 |
| Nile Corniche St. | 15 | 13,056 |
| Rael St. | 9 | 12,381 |
Ain Shams: 8 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| Gisr Al Suez | 15 | 16,667 |
| Mansheyat El Tahrir | 20 | 16,200 |
| Taqseem Omar Ibn El Khattab | 9 | 14,167 |
| Ahmed Esmat St. | 19 | 13,704 |
| El Naam | 12 | 13,682 |
| El Zahraa St. | 10 | 12,000 |
| El Arbaeen St. | 9 | 10,714 |
| El Eshrein St. | 15 | 10,000 |
Faisal: 7 compounds or streets
| Compound or street | Listings | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|
| King Faisal St | 31 | 14,444 |
| Amr Ibn El Aas St. | 11 | 13,077 |
| Awel Faisal | 10 | 12,829 |
| El Mansheya St. | 8 | 12,154 |
| El Eshrein St | 10 | 11,653 |
| El Lebeny | 45 | 11,563 |
| Kabeish Road | 11 | 9,943 |
Limits
- Asking prices in listings, not transaction prices. Many compound units are sold in instalments over several years.
- One website. Up to 10 search pages per area, in the site's default order, where new projects tend to come first, so compounds weigh heavily in upscale districts. Use the split between compounds and ordinary buildings.
- "Areas" are Aqarmap's districts; Alexandria and the Red Sea are whole regions.
- 29 listings filed under one district while their title names another were removed. The Red Sea and New Capital had too few rentals for a figure.
Source: public listings on aqarmap.com.eg, collected October 30, 2026.
How the listings were collected and filtered: method.