Housing Policy Tracker 6 | March 2025

Presidential directives on housing, MoH addresses parliament, digital property registration, new urban management entity and more.

Your monthly summary covering housing, land and urban policy developments, with a focus on Egypt.

Welcome to Housing Policy Tracker 6!

In this issue you’ll read about:

· President meets with PM and Housing Minister

· MoH Adresses Parliament

· Committee Advises Digital Property Registration for Foreigners

· Downtown Redevelopment ToR to be Launched in Two Months

· Maspero and North Coast Redevelopment Project Updates

· Details of Large Government offering of Social, Middle and Luxury Housing Announced

· PM Hands Out Social Housing Deeds, SHMFF Announces Key Stats

· NUCA sets up city management firm with Ministry of Defence

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President meets with PM and Housing Minister

President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi met with PM Mostafa Madbouly and Minister of Housing Sherif Al-Shirbini to discuss a number of government housing and urban redevelopment projects.

These included progress updates on the real estate export initiative Beitak fi Misr (your home in Egypt), launched earlier this year to encourage expat Egyptian expats to buy government-built housing in USD, to directly capture their remittances.

The agenda also included the new offering of 400,000 government housing units in a range of social and for-profit units [see details below], as well as the development of the North West Coast area between Ras Al-Hekma and Marsa Matruh.

#SocialHousing #RasAlHekma #NorthCoast

MoH Adresses Parliament

Minister of Housing Sherif Al-Shirbini addressed parliament, presenting his ministry's policies, plans and projects to control population growth and urban sprawl, such as the development of new cities, slum clearance projects, and the legalization of informal homes under the Construction Violations Reconciliation Law. The minister stated how these projects helped increase Egypt's inhabited area to 14% under the Egypt 2030 Sustainable Development Vision, with another 2% forecasted over the coming two years.

Eng. Al-Shirbini added that “the issue of population increase is a thorny issue in terms of quantity and quality”, calculating how the annual population growth of two million people, required the provision of 350,000 housing units each year, in addition to the inflow of nine million migrants from “sister Arab nations.”

The address showed unflinching support of a geographic expansion policy that has so far failed to solve core housing issues, encouraging the oversupply of housing, resulting in a glut of sold, but vacant homes, especially in NUCA's new cities. Eng. Al-Shirbini also did not mention the recent Constitutional Court ruling decontrolling Old Rent, and how the ministry plans to deal with the aftermath that will affect some 1.6 million families.

#ReconciliationLaw