Compound Alca New Cairo

Compound Alca New Cairo occupies 33 acres at the far end of South 90th Street, and its developer has kept buildings on just 22% of that land. The remaining 78% carries green spaces, water features and landscaped walkways, and that single ratio is what separates the project from most apartment schemes competing on the same axis. Units open at EGP 4,400,000 with a price per meter starting at EGP 35,500, and the installment runway reaches seven years.

The scheme is the first Egyptian launch by Saudi American Group, marketed as SAG Developments, an alliance of Saudi and American real estate companies. That debut status explains the pricing position directly: a developer with no Egyptian handover record prices under the established names on the same street in order to buy market share. The trade runs both ways, and the sections below set out the numbers, the payment structures and the open risks in plain terms rather than brochure language.

Saudi American Group, the developer behind Compound Alca New Cairo

Saudi American Group is a partnership between Saudi and American real estate companies, and Compound Alca New Cairo is its opening project inside the Egyptian market. A first project functions as a company’s calling card, which usually pushes a developer to protect the construction schedule and the delivery standard more tightly than it would on a fifth or sixth launch. Buyers should read the absence of a local delivery history as the main open question on this project rather than as a defect, because everything the company has completed sits outside Egypt.

The group’s portfolio spans two markets and four building types. In the United States it developed La Cantera Mall, the Belleza residential compound and the Marble Falls resort. In Saudi Arabia it delivered Bayt Al Talib in the city of Abha and the Wadi Al Tala School. Retail, residential, hospitality and institutional work inside one portfolio points to a delivery capability broader than that of a single product residential house builder, which matters on a masterplan that mixes housing with a commercial strip, a health club and sports facilities.

What that portfolio does not yet contain is a handed over Egyptian community, so no local benchmark exists for finishing quality, snagging response times or facility management performance. Egyptian construction conditions differ from American and Saudi ones in supply chain, labour and permitting, and experience abroad transfers only partially. The rational position for a buyer is to price the developer risk rather than to dismiss it or to ignore it.

Deedgate holds no verified information on the project’s license reference with the New Urban Communities Authority, the body that authorises development in New Cairo. That documentation exists for any legally launched project, and it should be requested and read at contract stage alongside the land title and the building permit for the specific phase a unit sits in.

Where exactly does Compound Alca New Cairo sit?

Compound Alca New Cairo sits at the end of South 90th Street in New Cairo, the main commercial and residential axis of the Fifth Settlement. The site connects directly to the Middle Ring Road and the Regional Ring Road, which places the New Administrative Capital roughly five minutes away by car.

South 90th Street runs as the spine of New Cairo, and a compound’s position along it changes its character completely. The central stretch carries the district’s densest retail and its heaviest evening traffic, while the southern tail where this project sits keeps the frontage and the address without the congestion. The developer chose that tail deliberately, trading a few minutes of driving into the commercial core for quieter approach roads and a lower land cost, and the lower land cost is exactly what shows up in the price per meter.

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Road access forms the second half of the location argument. The plot connects to the Middle Ring Road and the Regional Ring Road, the two corridors carrying traffic from eastern Cairo toward the New Administrative Capital, the Suez Road and the airport. That connection puts the New Administrative Capital about five minutes away and the American University in Cairo about eight minutes away, and it reaches Cairo International Airport in a short run along the Ring Road without passing through the interior streets of the settlement.

Distances and drive times from the site

• New Administrative Capital: roughly 5 minutes through the new axes
• American University in Cairo (AUC): roughly 8 minutes
• Middle Ring Road and Regional Ring Road: direct connection to both corridors
• Cairo International Airport: a short run along the Ring Road
• El Shorouk City and Al Rehab: bordering the site on its eastern side
• Sarai and Taj City: neighbouring delivered communities on the same corridor

The surrounding fabric is already built and inhabited, which removes the first mover problem that usually shadows a new compound. El Shorouk City and Al Rehab sit along the eastern boundary and between them supply schools, clinics, supermarkets and retail that a resident can use from the first day of occupancy. Sarai and Taj City, two large delivered communities on the same corridor, set the finishing standard and the price ceiling that buyers in this stretch of New Cairo measure everything against.

That neighbouring density matters more for a debut developer than for an established one. A household moving in before the internal commercial strip opens still has working services within minutes of the gate, so daily life does not depend on the project’s own facilities being complete on handover day. Projects launched into empty desert carry that dependency, and this one does not.

New Cairo and the Fifth Settlement as an address

New Cairo is a planned city east of the capital, administered by the New Urban Communities Authority and organised into settlements rather than traditional neighbourhoods. The Fifth Settlement became its commercial heart because South 90th Street concentrated the banks, the international schools, the medical centres and the retail into one legible corridor, and that concentration is why an address on the street carries a premium over an address behind it.

The district’s growth has since pushed outward along the Ring Road toward El Shorouk, Madinaty and the New Administrative Capital, and land at the eastern and southern edges is now the active development frontier. The project sits inside that frontier band, where prices track the established core with a discount that narrows as the surrounding plots build out. Buyers who bought on the fringe of the Fifth Settlement a decade ago saw that discount close as services arrived, and the same mechanism is the basis of the value case at this location.

The opening of the New Administrative Capital reshaped the geography a second time. Government ministries, the business district and a growing employment base moved east, and communities positioned between the Fifth Settlement and the new capital gained a second demand source on top of the traditional New Cairo buyer. A site five minutes from the new capital and eight minutes from the American University in Cairo draws on both pools at once, which is a genuine structural advantage rather than a marketing line.

Inside the 33 acre masterplan: 22% built, 78% open

The masterplan places buildings on 22% of the 33 acres and leaves 78% to green spaces, water features and landscape. New Cairo compounds commonly build on 20% to 25% of their plots, so the figure is competitive rather than extraordinary, and stating it that way is more useful than calling it exceptional. The measurable outcomes are fewer units per acre, wider gaps between blocks, and more daylight reaching the lower floors of each cluster.

Buildings are laid out as 26 clusters, each following a ground plus four floors format, so no block rises above five storeys. Low rise clustering keeps lift and stair loads light, limits the number of households sharing a single core, and avoids the overlooking problem that appears when tall blocks face each other across a narrow setback. The clusters are separated by planted strips instead of being packed into continuous rows, and that separation is the design decision carrying the privacy argument on this project.

Two anchors organise the open space. A central park of roughly 8,200 m² collects the running and cycling tracks, a swimming pool, a barbecue zone and seating areas, while a commercial zone of about 16,000 m² holds the internal retail. Concentrating the retail in a defined zone rather than scattering shops beneath residential blocks keeps delivery vehicles, service noise and late trading hours away from apartment entrances, which is a practical difference residents feel every evening.

The unit mix is deliberately narrow. The compound offers apartments and penthouses only, with no townhouses, twin houses or standalone villas anywhere in the plan. Removing the villa tier lowers the average ticket across the community, keeps the resident profile tighter, and concentrates the shared facilities on a single product type instead of splitting them between a villa zone and an apartment zone. It also explains why the entry price sits where it does relative to mixed product neighbours.

Deedgate holds no verified figure for the total number of units in the project, and the developer has not published a phasing schedule that identifies which clusters are released first. Both figures matter to a buyer, because unit count determines eventual density on the ground and the phasing order determines how long a household lives beside an active construction site after handover.

Unit types and sizes at Compound Alca New Cairo

The size ladder runs from a one bedroom apartment to a penthouse and covers singles, couples and families of four or five without pushing a buyer into a villa budget. The table below lists the released types with their areas and bedroom counts.

Unit type	Area (m²)	Bedrooms
One bedroom apartment	From 79 (84 with a private garden)	1
Two bedroom apartment	123 to 130	2
Three bedroom apartment	165 to 171	3
Penthouse	147 to 210	3 and above

One bedroom apartments start at 79 m², and ground floor units of the same type reach 84 m² with a private garden attached. At this size the unit reads as a first purchase or a rental asset rather than a family home, and the garden version is the one that holds the stronger resale interest, because private outdoor space is scarce in the one bedroom segment across New Cairo.

Two bedroom apartments span 123 to 130 m², the working size for a couple with one child or for a household that treats the second bedroom as an office. The range is tight, which means the layouts differ mainly in orientation and position within the cluster rather than in floor plan, so buyers should choose on view and sun exposure instead of hunting for a materially larger version of the same unit.

Three bedroom apartments run 165 to 171 m² and cover the standard Egyptian family layout of three bedrooms, a reception and two bathrooms without wasting area on circulation. This is the tier that competes most directly with delivered stock in the neighbouring compounds, because it is the size most families in New Cairo actually shop for, and it is where the price per meter comparison bites hardest.

Penthouses range from 147 to 210 m² with three bedrooms or more, sitting on top of a five storey block. Their value comes from the roof terrace and the open outlook across the landscape, and both of those are products of the low building height and the 78% open ratio rather than of the unit plan itself. In a compound of towers the same penthouse would look onto other buildings, which is the comparison worth making before paying the tier’s premium.

How much does a unit at Compound Alca New Cairo cost?

Unit prices at Compound Alca New Cairo start from EGP 4,400,000, and the price per meter starts at EGP 35,500. Prices are updated for 2026 and move upward as construction phases complete, so a buyer should request the current list before reserving rather than relying on a published figure.

The price per meter is the number that carries the whole argument. At EGP 35,500 the project prices under several delivered compounds along the same South 90th Street corridor, and two structural reasons explain that gap rather than one. The first is a developer needing to establish itself in a market where it has completed nothing, which is a market entry discount. The second is the unit mix, because a scheme without villas has no high value tier pulling its averages upward.

Entry cost follows the size ladder in a predictable way. The one bedroom apartment at 79 m² is the cheapest route into the compound, and the EGP 4,400,000 starting figure attaches to that tier rather than to the compound as a whole. Larger apartments and penthouses price above it, so buyers comparing across projects should compare price per meter rather than headline starting prices, since a starting price only ever describes the smallest unit in a mix.

Prices in this segment move with construction progress rather than sitting still. The published list is dated to 2026 and the developer revises it upward as phases advance, which means the discount available to an early buyer is partly a payment for accepting construction risk. Treating the current list as fixed through to handover misreads how launches are priced in New Cairo, and it is the most common error buyers make when they delay a decision expecting the same numbers three phases later.

Deedgate holds no verified price per meter for the penthouse tier specifically, and no published price list broken down by cluster or floor. Those figures normally exist internally at the sales office, and buyers should ask for the per unit breakdown rather than accepting a single starting number when they compare two units of the same size in different positions.

Payment plans and down payment options

Saudi American Group released three payment structures for Compound Alca New Cairo, and all three add a further 10% payable on delivery. The variable across them is the down payment at contract, and the longer installment terms are attached to the larger down payments rather than being offered independently.

• Plan one: 10% down payment, a further 10% on delivery, balance installed over 5 years
• Plan two: 15% down payment, a further 10% on delivery, balance installed over 6 years
• Plan three: 20% down payment, a further 10% on delivery, balance installed over 7 years

Plan one is the lightest at signing and suits a buyer entering with limited upfront liquidity, though it compresses the balance into five years and therefore produces the heaviest monthly installment of the three. Plan three demands double the cash at contract but stretches the balance across seven years, which lowers the monthly figure and matters most to salaried buyers budgeting against a fixed income. Plan two sits between them for households that can fund 15% without straining reserves.

Worked against the entry price, the shape of the choice becomes concrete. On a EGP 4,400,000 unit, plan one asks EGP 440,000 at contract, plan two asks EGP 660,000, and plan three asks EGP 880,000, with a further EGP 440,000 falling due on delivery under each. The remaining balance is then spread across five, six or seven years respectively, so the same unit can be entered for under half a million pounds or carried at the lowest possible monthly figure, but not both.

The 10% delivery payment deserves separate planning because it lands at the same moment as the finishing budget on a semi-finished unit. A household that plans only for the down payment and the monthly installment will meet two large simultaneous outflows at handover, and that timing catches more buyers than the installment schedule itself does.

Deedgate holds no verified figure for the maintenance deposit or the annual facility management charge at this project. Both are standard in New Cairo compounds, both are usually calculated as a percentage of the unit price or a rate per meter, and both should be confirmed in writing before signing, because a low headline price paired with a high maintenance rate changes the real cost of ownership materially.

Delivery timeline and finishing standard

Saudi American Group commits to handing over units at Compound Alca New Cairo within roughly two years of the contract date, delivered semi-finished. The Arabic project record on Deedgate carries no fixed handover year, so the two year window measured from the contract is the accurate formulation, and any calendar year quoted elsewhere should be checked against the contract a buyer is actually signing.

Semi-finished delivery hands over a unit with structure, plastering, plumbing and electrical rough-in completed, leaving internal finishing to the owner. The arrangement lowers the contracted price, spreads the finishing spend across the months after handover, and lets the owner set the specification instead of accepting a developer package chosen for an average buyer. A large share of Fifth Settlement purchasers prefer it for exactly that reason.

The corollary is that the true cost of occupancy equals the unit price plus a finishing budget. Buyers comparing this project against fully finished competitors need to add that budget before drawing conclusions, otherwise the price per meter comparison is measuring two different products. Finishing an apartment to a mid market standard in New Cairo is a substantial line item, and it should be modelled at the same time as the installment schedule.

One contract term deserves particular attention here. Deedgate holds no verified information on whether the agreement stipulates compensation if handover slips past the agreed window, and on a first Egyptian project by a new market entrant that clause carries more weight than it would with a developer holding twenty years of local handovers behind it.

Facilities and services inside the compound

The facility programme is built around daily self sufficiency, so a resident can handle shopping, exercise and family time without leaving the gates. The services group into four practical categories: open space and leisure, retail and food, sport and wellness, and security and infrastructure.

• Green spaces and water features laid out for walking and family use across the 78% open allocation
• An internal commercial mall covering everyday shopping and household supplies
• Swimming pools distributed across the compound rather than concentrated at one point
• Cafes and restaurants inside the community
• Fully equipped gyms
• A spa and jacuzzi within the health club facilities
• Multi sport courts for several games
• A dedicated kids area
• Running tracks and cycling tracks
• Security and guarding on a 24 hour cycle with advanced surveillance systems
• Backup generators that engage automatically during a power cut

The combination of an internal mall, round the clock security and automatic backup generators is what makes a compound viable as a permanent residence rather than a secondary address. Generators in particular remove the dependency on the public grid for lifts, water pumps and common area lighting, which is a live practical concern in the newer stretches of New Cairo where network loads are still growing.

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The running and cycling tracks and the water features draw directly on the 78% open allocation, so the amenity list and the masterplan ratio describe the same decision from two angles. A project building on 40% of its land could not carry tracks of usable length without cutting into parking or landscape, which is why the density figure and the facility list should be read together rather than as separate selling points.

Distributing pools across the compound instead of grouping them into a single aquatic zone follows the same clustering logic as the buildings. It shortens the walk from each cluster to a pool, spreads peak summer usage, and reduces the noise concentration that a single large pool generates beside the units nearest to it.

How Compound Alca New Cairo compares with its neighbours

Sarai and Taj City, both large communities on the same corridor, are the reference points buyers use when pricing this location. Both are developed by companies with long Egyptian delivery records, both carry villa and townhouse tiers alongside apartments, and both price above EGP 35,500 per meter as a result. This project competes on entry cost and on building density instead of on brand history, which is a coherent position but a different one.

Against El Shorouk City and Al Rehab the comparison changes shape entirely. Those are older, larger and more established residential cities with mature services, deep resale markets and a wide range of price points, but neither is a gated compound with a 22% build ratio and a single facility management standard. A buyer weighing them against this project is really choosing between proven community services at variable density and controlled low density with an unproven operator.

There is a third comparison worth naming, which is against newer launches on the eastern edge of New Cairo generally. Many of those sit deeper into undeveloped land where residents wait years for surrounding services, whereas this site borders El Shorouk and Al Rehab and inherits their infrastructure immediately. On that specific axis of comparison the project is better positioned than most of its price peers.

The honest summary is that the compound is priced as a challenger. It offers a lower entry point and a longer installment runway than the established names on South 90th Street, and in exchange it asks the buyer to accept a developer whose Egyptian track record begins with this project.

Is Compound Alca New Cairo a sound investment?

Three stated facts support the medium term value case. The site sits on South 90th Street about five minutes from the New Administrative Capital, the price per meter starts at EGP 35,500 which is below several neighbours on the same axis, and the build ratio is held at 22%. Low density communities on established axes have historically held value better than dense schemes on the same street, because supply per acre is smaller and the product becomes impossible to replicate once the surrounding land is built out.

Rental demand favours the smaller units clearly. A 79 m² or 84 m² apartment eight minutes from the American University in Cairo and five minutes from the New Administrative Capital addresses two identifiable tenant pools at once: academic staff and students around the university, and employees relocating to the government and business districts of the new capital. Those are the units to buy for yield, while the penthouses read as an owner occupier product with a thinner rental market behind them.

The counterweight is concentrated developer risk. Saudi American Group has completed no Egyptian project, so no local evidence exists on handover punctuality, finishing quality or after sales service, and a foreign portfolio does not transfer automatically into Egyptian construction conditions. The seven year plan spreads that exposure across time, which is the practical mitigation available to a buyer who wants the entry price without carrying the risk in a single payment.

A second consideration is resale before handover. Units bought at launch prices in an appreciating corridor are frequently resold before delivery, and the terms governing that transfer sit in the contract rather than in the price list. Buyers planning that route should confirm the assignment clause, any transfer fee, and the minimum percentage that must be paid before a resale is permitted, since those three terms decide whether the strategy is available at all.

The project suits a buyer seeking a low entry price on a main New Cairo axis with installments running to seven years, and it suits an investor targeting small rental units near the university and the new capital. It suits less well a buyer who ranks a proven local delivery record above price, or one who needs a fully finished unit on a fixed calendar date. This analysis is guidance drawn from the published figures and is not investment advice.

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Who the project is built for

The unit mix defines the resident profile more precisely than any marketing statement could. With apartments from 79 m² to 171 m² and penthouses to 210 m², and with no villa tier at all, the community will be populated by first time buyers, young families and small households rather than by the multi generational villa buyer who shops in the neighbouring mixed product compounds. That single fact tells a prospective buyer roughly who their neighbours will be.

For a first purchase, the 79 m² one bedroom at the EGP 4,400,000 entry point combined with a 10% down payment produces the lowest realistic barrier on a South 90th Street address. For a growing family, the 123 to 130 m² two bedroom and the 165 to 171 m² three bedroom cover the standard progression without requiring a move out of the community. For an investor, the small units near two employment and education hubs carry the clearest tenant demand.

The profile it does not serve is equally clear. A buyer who needs a garden of villa scale, a private pool or a detached plot will find nothing in the mix, and a buyer who wants to move in within months rather than years should be looking at delivered stock in Al Rehab or the completed phases of neighbouring compounds instead of at a project handing over two years from contract.

What to verify before you sign

A launch by a developer new to Egypt shifts the weight of due diligence from the price list onto the contract. The price, the plan and the unit are the easy part of the decision, and the terms governing what happens if the schedule slips are the part that determines the outcome if anything goes wrong.

• The project license reference with the New Urban Communities Authority, plus the building permit covering the specific phase your unit sits in
• The delay penalty clause, stating what compensation applies if handover passes the agreed window
• The precise definition of semi-finished delivery, item by item, so the finishing budget can be calculated accurately
• The maintenance deposit and the annual facility management charge, both in writing
• The assignment clause governing resale before handover, including any transfer fee and minimum paid percentage
• The current price list for your specific unit, floor and orientation rather than the published starting figure

None of these items is unusual to request, and a developer confident in its programme provides them without friction. Their absence, or a reluctance to put them in writing, is more informative than any amenity list, and it is the cheapest form of risk assessment available to a buyer at this stage.

What buyers ask about Compound Alca New Cairo

Is Alca in the Fifth Settlement or the Sixth Settlement?

Compound Alca New Cairo is listed under the Fifth Settlement in New Cairo, positioned at the far end of South 90th Street. A number of listings label the same address as the Sixth Settlement, so buyers comparing projects should use the South 90th Street reference point rather than the settlement label when they check location.

What is the minimum down payment?

The minimum down payment at Compound Alca New Cairo is 10% of the unit price, under the plan that installs the balance across five years. A further 10% falls due on delivery under all three plans, while larger down payments of 15% and 20% unlock the six year and seven year terms respectively.

Does the compound offer villas?

Compound Alca New Cairo offers apartments and penthouses only, with no townhouses, twin houses or standalone villas in the plan. Apartments run from 79 m² to 171 m² across one, two and three bedroom layouts, and penthouses span 147 m² to 210 m² with three bedrooms or more.

Are the units delivered finished or semi-finished?

Units at Compound Alca New Cairo are handed over semi-finished, within roughly two years of the contract date. The owner completes the internal finishing, which reduces the contracted price and allows a personal specification, though the finishing budget must be added when comparing this project against fully finished compounds nearby.

The bottom line

Compound Alca New Cairo places apartments and penthouses on 33 acres at the end of South 90th Street, builds on 22% of the land, and opens at EGP 4,400,000 with installments reaching seven years. Entry price, low density and proximity to the New Administrative Capital are its strengths, while its Egyptian debut developer is the open question. To confirm prices or arrange a viewing, use the form on this page.