Guides and answers about buying property in Egypt.
A move is not a holiday that ran long. Seven steps: scouting in the season that worries you, status and documents with a lawyer ahead, the school as the choice of area, three years of income, renting before buying, what to bring and what to buy locally, medicine. And the six mistakes made most often.
Three to five warm months from November to April — the town's steadiest scenario. How wintering works in practice, when renting is wiser than buying, how to count honestly over the same horizon, and which flat suits living here half the year.
The price of the flat is the price of entry; then comes the price of ownership. The full list of cost lines — fixed, seasonal, sudden and legal — without invented sums, and a way to get a real figure for each line before the deposit.
The word 'management' sells anything from a monthly visit to the full cycle of short-term letting. Three formats, who offers them in Sharm, how they are paid for, eight points to put in writing, and how to choose a manager.
Short and long lets differ not in the rate but in what owning turns into: how much time and how many people it takes, how the flat wears, what changes with the season, who your guest is and what the compound may forbid. No yield figures — the mechanics and the questions to answer before buying.
Salt, sun and humidity work all year, even when nobody is home. What gives way first — metal, air-conditioning, sealant, appliances, furniture — what happens to an empty flat, the minimum care by season and how to choose materials for a renovation.
Not 'what a flat by the sea will earn' but how to work it out yourself: the costs people forget, why a 'best month' estimate lies, what net yield is and how to use our calculator. No promises; every number is yours, from a real property and a real contract.
Not a tourist guide but a briefing for anyone thinking of living here for months or all year: seasons and heat, where to buy food, getting around without a car, doctors, schools, connectivity, money, what irritates and what keeps people here.
