New Cairo is a trophy-tier Class A submarket of Cairo with average asking rent around $144/sqm/yr · ≈ $13.4 PSF/yr USD.

  • Premier eastern suburban Class A.
  • Trophy tier — ~$144/sqm/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

New Cairo, Cairo — Class A submarket

Premier eastern suburban Class A. · Tier: trophy · Avg rent: $144/sqm/yr · ≈ $13.4 PSF/yr USD

TL;DR

  • Premier eastern suburban Class A.
  • Trophy tier — ~$144/sqm/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Overview

New Cairo anchors Cairo's principal eastern suburban trophy Class A submarket. Cairo Festival City, AUC New Cairo Campus, and a deep multinational HQ tenancy.

Tenant profile

Multinationals, banking, education (AUC), retail HQs, healthcare.

Typical specification

15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.

Transit

Bus; planned metro extension.

Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.

Amenities

Cairo Festival City, AUC campus, Point 90 Mall.

Comparable buildings

  • Cairo Festival City
  • AUC New Cairo Campus
  • City Centre Almaza

Where New Cairo sits in Cairo

New Cairo is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Cairo, classified as trophy tier with an average asking rent around $144/sqm/yr · ≈ $13.4 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Cairo Class A stock, New Cairo typically attracts Multinationals, banking, education (AUC), retail HQs, healthcare and competes most directly with the city's other trophy submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.

Adjacent submarkets to study alongside New Cairo: New Administrative Capital (NAC), Smart Village / 6th of October, Downtown / Cornish El Nil, Zamalek / Mohandessin. The full Cairo submarket atlas is at /cities/cairo.

Topic deep-dives for New Cairo

For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating New Cairo, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:

Related glossary

Terminology specific to Cairo Class A leasing and to the trophy tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.

Editorial provenance

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