Giza City Guide

Giza sits on the west bank of the Nile across from Cairo, home to the Pyramids and Sphinx and, since November 2025, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the world's largest single-civilisation museum, which is projected to help draw more than 25 million tourists to the plateau in 2026. The governorate spans dense older districts such as Haram and Faisal and the planned satellite of 6th of October City, which together with New Cairo accounted for over 40% of Egypt's new residential development in 2024. Foreign buyers should weigh two hard constraints: Law No. 230 of 1996 caps non-Egyptians at two residential units (each up to 4,000 m2) with a five-year resale lock, and the Egyptian pound's sharp devaluation from March 2024 means headline EGP price growth of 60-150% in some Giza districts is largely inflation rather than real US-dollar gains. Gross residential yields are modest at roughly 5-8%, and policy rates of 27-30% keep local mortgage demand thin.