Annual rental yield on a commercial unit is net annual rent divided by total purchase price, times one hundred. The word net matters: maintenance charges, management fees and expected vacancy are deducted from rent before the calculation, and ignoring them inflates the figure misleadingly.
Yield is worked out unit by unit, because it moves with location, frontage and floor — a ground-floor shop on a main walkway is a different asset from an upper-floor one. What we put in your hands is the half that matters most: price per metre, with a median of EGP 140,000 for retail and EGP 92,150 for offices. Call us with your size and budget and we will work the expected yield on the unit you have in mind.
Four items: the vacancy period before the first tenant, annual maintenance, mall management fees where they apply, and a flat rent locked into a long lease with no escalation clause. Calculating yield on gross rent without deducting these is the most common error in valuing commercial units.
Ground floor lets faster and sits vacant less because of footfall, so it commands higher rent per metre — but it also costs more to buy. Higher rent therefore does not automatically mean higher yield: the correct comparison is between yield percentages, not rent figures.
The projects below are genuinely listed for sale with us and are the unit type the Rental yield guide applies to. Whether a given unit is tenanted or vacant is confirmed on enquiry.
