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.
We do not publish a yield percentage because we hold no verified rent data for Egypt's commercial market, and any figure published without a source would be a guess. What we do hold and publish is the verified half of the equation: price per metre. The median retail metre is EGP 140,000 and administrative EGP 92,150, per our listed inventory, August 2026. The other half — achievable rent — is estimated per unit by location, frontage and floor.
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.
