Compound Aqmar October is a 41-acre residential compound developed by Kayan Developments in partnership with Elaf Developments, positioned directly on Al Wahat Road opposite MSA University in 6th of October City. It is the first gated compound launched on this stretch of the road, which places it at the gateway of the Wahat corridor and the Dahshur Link rather than inside the older, denser districts at the heart of October. The compound delivers fully finished apartments, duplexes, penthouses, Family House units, and hotel-serviced units, with sizes running from 70 m² to 220 m² for standard apartments and up to 287 m² for penthouses.

Prices start from EGP 3,790,000 for a 78 m² one-bedroom apartment, with a reservation deposit of EGP 50,000 and installment plans that stretch to 12 years with no interest. That combination of a low entry ticket, a full finishing package, and a university across the road makes the project relevant to two very different buyers: a family that wants a move-in-ready home near schools and malls, and an investor targeting year-round rental demand from students and faculty. The analysis below covers every attribute the developer has published, including a per-unit price table, both payment plans, and the trade-offs of buying early on a corridor that is still filling in.

Where exactly is Compound Aqmar October?

Compound Aqmar October sits on Al Wahat Road in 6th of October City, directly facing the main campus of MSA University, 2 minutes from the Dahshur Link and 5 minutes by car from Mall of Egypt. The site occupies the entrance of the Wahat corridor, so residents reach the Giza and Greater Cairo axes before traffic from the inner October districts merges onto the road.

Al Wahat Road, the axis that carries traffic from 6th of October toward the Fayoum Desert Road and the Regional Ring Road, defines the project’s daily geography. The Dahshur Link, which branches off 2 minutes from the site, is the fast connection to Giza, Sheikh Zayed, and the 26th of July Corridor. A home at the mouth of this corridor benefits from direct road frontage, quick entry and exit, and a visible address, three things the inward-facing compounds surrounded by older residential blocks cannot offer. The trade-off is that the immediate surroundings are still maturing: the university, the malls, and the hypermarket already operate, while the residential fabric around the road is being built out by neighboring launches.

Mall of Egypt, the largest shopping and entertainment destination in Giza with its indoor ski slope and cinema complex, lies 5 minutes away. Hyper One, the hypermarket that serves west Cairo’s weekly grocery runs, sits within the same short radius. MSA University, one of the largest private universities in October with faculties of pharmacy, engineering, dentistry, and business, is directly across the road, which is the single most important location fact for anyone weighing a rental strategy.

Key distances from Compound Aqmar October

MSA University: directly opposite the compound on Al Wahat Road.
Dahshur Link: 2 minutes, the fast route to Giza, Sheikh Zayed, and the 26th of July Corridor.
Mall of Egypt: 5 minutes by car.
Hyper One: within the immediate radius for daily shopping.
O West by Orascom Development: 3 minutes, the largest neighboring master-planned community on the same corridor.
Boulevard Line Mall October: inside the project’s direct commercial surroundings.
Mall of Arabia: roughly 10 minutes via Al Wahat Road and the 26th of July Corridor.
Media Production City: about 20 minutes.
Sphinx International Airport: under 30 minutes via the Dahshur Link and the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road.

6th of October City, the new urban community founded in 1979 and governed by the New Urban Communities Authority, has spread westward along Al Wahat Road over the last decade, and the corridor now hosts O West, Boulevard Line, and a string of new residential launches. Aqmar arrived first on its specific segment, which means its buyers pay pre-corridor prices while the surrounding projects are still under construction. As those projects complete, the same road frontage that is a construction-phase inconvenience today becomes the main driver of resale value.

Kayan Developments and Elaf Developments: the joint developer

Kayan Developments, the lead developer of Aqmar, builds residential and commercial projects across 6th of October and Sheikh Zayed, with a portfolio weighted toward retail and administrative assets. Its completed and ongoing projects include K Business Park in October, C’est La Vie Mall in Sheikh Zayed, Vida Residence Compound in October Gardens, Plaza Vida Mall in October, Zed49 Mall in Sheikh Zayed, The Location Mall in October Gardens, and Hub 44 Mall in October. That concentration in west Cairo matters: the company is developing Aqmar inside the same 15 km radius where its previous projects stand, which reduces the execution risk of a first launch on a new corridor.

Elaf Developments, the partner on the project, started in 2008 and describes its own track record as more than 15 years of work in Sheikh Zayed, 6th of October, and October Gardens. Its projects include KAWN in 6th of October, Cairo Plaza in 6th of October, Panorama Mall in Sheikh Zayed, and the NASA mixed-use project. The two companies also collaborated on Vida Residence in October Gardens, so Aqmar is not their first shared project. A two-developer structure spreads construction financing and sales capacity across two balance sheets, which is the practical reason joint ventures are common on 41-acre sites in Egypt.

The mall-heavy portfolio of both companies has one direct consequence for buyers: the developers already operate income-producing retail assets, so the commercial strip planned inside Aqmar is being designed by a team that understands tenant mix and footfall rather than by a purely residential builder. Visiting Vida Residence or K Business Park remains the most reliable way to judge finishing quality and delivery discipline before signing.

Master plan and land use across 41 acres

The master plan spreads the residential blocks across 41 acres (roughly 172,000 m²) and reserves a large share of that land for landscaping, open lawns, and pedestrian paths. The planners separated the service and commercial zone from the residential clusters, so delivery traffic and shop visitors circulate away from the apartment entrances. Underground parking removes cars from the surface, which is why the walkways between buildings can be planted rather than paved.

Building facades follow a contemporary, low-ornament style, and the block layout orients most apartments toward green courtyards or open walkways instead of facing a neighboring wall. The size range inside the project, from a 70 m² studio-style apartment to a 287 m² penthouse, is deliberately wide. Kayan is targeting a mixed community of young professionals, families, and investors inside one compound rather than specializing in a single unit class, and a mixed community keeps the internal commercial strip and clubhouse busy throughout the week rather than only on weekends.

Three attributes of the plan are not yet published and are worth asking the sales team about: the exact built-up percentage, the total number of units, and the name of the architectural consultant. Third-party listings quote a smaller 50 m² entry unit and a 43-acre land area, but the developer’s own figures used on this page are 70 m² and 41 acres.

Unit types, sizes, and installment prices in Compound Aqmar October

Compound Aqmar October offers one- to four-bedroom apartments between 70 m² and 220 m², plus duplexes at 230 to 238 m², penthouses at 286 to 287 m², Family House units for larger households, and hotel-serviced apartments. Every unit is handed over fully finished. The table below shows the developer’s current installment prices and the average installment price per m² for each configuration, updated for 2026.

Unit type	Bedrooms	Size (m²)	Installment price (EGP)	Avg. price per m² (EGP)
Apartment	1	78 to 98	3,790,000 to 4,773,000	47,500
Apartment	2	102 to 116	4,067,000 to 5,051,000	42,500
Apartment	2	101 to 117	4,443,000 to 6,014,000	48,500
Apartment	3	129 to 131	5,138,000 to 5,602,000	41,500
Apartment	3	136 to 156	6,117,000 to 7,556,000	46,500
Duplex	3	230 to 238	12,396,000 to 12,870,000	54,000
Penthouse	3	286 to 287	14,700,000 to 15,704,000	52,500

One-bedroom apartments of 78 to 98 m² carry the lowest ticket in the project at EGP 3,790,000, and they are the units most exposed to the student and faculty rental market across the road. Their average of EGP 47,500 per m² is higher than the three-bedroom average because small units always price higher per meter, a pattern that holds in every October compound. For a buyer who intends to rent rather than live, the one-bedroom is the shortest path from purchase to monthly income.

Two-bedroom apartments come in two separate bands, 102 to 116 m² from EGP 4,067,000 and 101 to 117 m² from EGP 4,443,000, and the gap between them reflects floor level and courtyard view rather than size. That split lets a buyer fine-tune the budget inside the same bedroom count. Three-bedroom apartments run from 129 m² at EGP 5,138,000 up to 156 m² at EGP 7,556,000, and the 129 to 131 m² band delivers the lowest price per meter in the whole project at EGP 41,500, which makes it the most efficient family purchase on the price list.

Duplexes of 230 to 238 m² are priced between EGP 12,396,000 and 12,870,000, and penthouses of 286 to 287 m² between EGP 14,700,000 and 15,704,000. Both sit in the EGP 52,500 to 54,000 per m² range, a premium of roughly 10 to 30 percent over the apartments that pays for the top-floor position, the terrace area, and the open view over the corridor. Family House units and the hotel-serviced apartments are sold on request; the serviced units carry a higher EGP 100,000 reservation deposit and arrive ready for short-stay letting.

How much does an apartment cost in Compound Aqmar October in 2026?

An apartment in Compound Aqmar October costs from EGP 3,790,000 for a 78 m² one-bedroom unit and from EGP 4,067,000 for a 110 m² two-bedroom unit, with the installment price per meter starting at EGP 41,500. A launch discount of up to 5% applies to early reservations. Prices are updated for 2026 and rise as sales phases progress.

The 5% launch discount changes the arithmetic more than its size suggests. On a three-bedroom apartment at EGP 7,556,000 it removes about EGP 378,000, and on a penthouse at EGP 15,704,000 it removes about EGP 785,000, so the saving on larger units is the equivalent of a full year of installments under the 12-year plan. Buyers should confirm whether the discount applies to the installment price or only to cash purchases at the time of reservation, because launch terms in October typically close once the first phase sells through.

Measured against the newer compounds on the west side of 6th of October, Aqmar’s EGP 41,500 to 48,500 per m² for apartments sits in the competitive middle of the market rather than at the top, and the comparison improves once finishing is factored in. Most neighboring launches on the Wahat corridor hand over semi-finished, which adds an estimated EGP 8,000 to 12,000 per m² of finishing cost and 6 to 12 months of work before the unit can be occupied or rented. Aqmar’s fully finished handover folds that cost into the installment plan, so the effective price gap against a semi-finished neighbor is wider than the headline number shows. O West, the closest large comparable 3 minutes away, launches its apartment phases in a similar starting-price band, which places Aqmar squarely inside the corridor’s price competition rather than above it.

Payment plans and the reservation deposit

Kayan offers two interest-free payment plans in the project, and neither adds annual lump-sum payments on top of the monthly or quarterly installments. Reservation starts with a serious-intent deposit of EGP 50,000 for residential units, rising to EGP 100,000 for the hotel-serviced apartments, which is lower than the EGP 100,000 to 500,000 deposits several neighboring projects on the corridor request.

Plan 1: 15% down payment, 5% paid at handover, and the remaining 80% spread over 6 years with no interest.
Plan 2: 10% down payment and the balance spread over 12 years with no interest, which cuts the monthly installment roughly in half versus Plan 1.
Reservation deposit: EGP 50,000 for apartments, duplexes, penthouses, and Family House units; EGP 100,000 for hotel-serviced units.
Launch discount: up to 5% for early reservations, applied before the plan is calculated.

The choice between the two plans is a trade between upfront cash and monthly load. On the entry-level EGP 3,790,000 apartment, Plan 1 requires about EGP 568,500 at contract and clears the balance in 72 monthly installments of roughly EGP 42,000, while Plan 2 requires about EGP 379,000 at contract and stretches the balance over 144 installments of roughly EGP 23,700. Because the plans carry no interest, the total paid is the same under both, so the only question is how much liquidity a buyer wants to keep in hand during construction. Investors who intend to rent the unit after handover usually prefer Plan 2, since the rental income can then cover most of the monthly installment for the remaining years.

Third-party brokerage listings also circulate a 5% down payment over 9 years and a 10% down payment over 10 years for the project. Those terms appear to belong to an earlier sales phase; the two plans above are the developer’s current published terms and should be confirmed in writing at reservation.

Finishing standard and delivery status

All units in the project are delivered fully finished, covering flooring, wall paint, bathrooms, and kitchen fit-out, so an owner can move in or list the unit for rent immediately after handover. This is the attribute that most separates Aqmar from the semi-finished norm in 6th of October and the reason several aggregator listings that describe the project as semi-finished are out of date. Buyers should ask for the finishing specification sheet at reservation, since finishing packages in Egyptian compounds vary widely in tile grade, sanitaryware brand, and kitchen inclusion.

The developer has not published a fixed handover year on its official channels. Brokerage listings cite 2029, described as three years from contract date, and that timeline is consistent with a 41-acre compound that has just opened its first phase. Until Kayan confirms the date in the sales contract, buyers should treat 2029 as an indicative figure and check the contract’s delivery clause, the delay-penalty terms, and whether the maintenance deposit, quoted by brokers at 5% of the unit price, is collected at contract or at handover.

Amenities inside the compound

The compound groups its facilities into a leisure core, a commercial strip, and a security layer, with the commercial traffic kept away from the residential clusters. The facility list published by the developer covers the following:

A clubhouse for social gatherings, private events, and resident activities.
Multiple swimming pools segmented by age group, with shallow, fenced zones for children.
Underground parking beneath the buildings, keeping the surface level car-free and shaded.
A gym and spa with resistance and cardio equipment and relaxation rooms.
An internal commercial mall with retail shops and daily services for residents.
Children’s play areas designed around safe surfacing and creative play equipment.
Cafés and restaurants with outdoor seating along the commercial strip.
24/7 security and gated access with CCTV coverage across the whole site.
Landscaped gardens, open lawns, and seating areas distributed between the blocks.

Facility counts (the number of pools, the clubhouse floor area, and the number of retail units in the internal mall) have not been released, and the developer has not yet named a facility-management company. Those are worth asking about, because the annual maintenance fee is set against the facility list, and a clubhouse plus underground parking plus round-the-clock security on a 41-acre site implies a meaningful operating budget that owners will fund through service charges.

For a household with a student at MSA University across the road, the internal mall, gym, and cafés remove most of the daily reasons to drive out of the compound. For a landlord, the same facilities are what a student or faculty tenant compares against the older, unserviced apartment buildings along Al Wahat Road, and they are the reason a compound unit commands a rental premium over a comparable apartment outside a gate.

How Compound Aqmar October compares with its neighbors

O West, the master-planned community by Orascom Development 3 minutes away, is the largest neighbor on the corridor and the benchmark against which Aqmar will be priced at resale. O West spreads across roughly 1,000 acres with its own schools, business district, and sports club, and it hands over most residential phases semi-finished. Aqmar cannot match that scale of on-site infrastructure, but it enters at a lower ticket, delivers finished, and sits closer to the university, which is a different product for a different buyer rather than a smaller copy of the same one.

Vida Residence in October Gardens, the earlier joint project of Kayan and Elaf, is the most useful reference for construction quality and finishing, since it comes from the same two companies. Zaha Residence October and Novella October, two other recent compounds in the 6th of October market, compete for the same family buyer in the EGP 4 to 8 million apartment band, and Boulevard Line Mall October is the retail anchor that will serve Aqmar’s residents before the internal commercial strip opens. Buyers comparing across these projects should line up price per m², finishing standard, distance to the Dahshur Link, and the length of the installment plan rather than the starting price alone.

Investment case: rental demand, entry price, and the corridor’s maturity

The investment argument for Aqmar rests on three measurable facts rather than on general optimism. First, MSA University sits directly across the road and enrolls thousands of students each academic year, many from outside Cairo and from abroad, which generates recurring demand for one- and two-bedroom rentals every September. Second, the entry price of EGP 3,790,000 for a finished unit is below what a finished unit of the same size costs in New Cairo (Fifth Settlement) or Sheikh Zayed, so the yield calculation starts from a lower denominator. Third, the project is the first compound on its segment of Al Wahat Road, so its buyers acquired at pre-corridor pricing while O West and Boulevard Line continue to build out around it.

Rental demand tied to a university behaves differently from general residential demand: vacancies cluster in summer, leases renew in step with the academic calendar, and small units let faster than large ones. That pattern favors the 78 to 117 m² apartments and the hotel-serviced units, which arrive furnished for short-stay letting, and it argues against buying a duplex or penthouse purely for rental income. Full finishing shortens the interval between handover and first rent to a matter of weeks, which is the main financial benefit of the finishing package for a landlord.

The main risk is timing. The corridor’s residential fabric is still under construction, so a buyer who wants a fully mature neighborhood on day one will find the older October districts more comfortable. The same immaturity is the source of the upside: as neighboring projects complete, road frontage on a corridor with a university, two malls, and a hypermarket in place tends to reprice upward, and early buyers capture that move. The project therefore suits a medium- to long-term holder, a family that values a finished unit and a short school run, or a landlord targeting the student market, and it suits a buyer seeking immediate income from a completed surrounding far less. This analysis is guidance based on the published facts and is not investment advice.

Frequently asked questions about Compound Aqmar October

What is the price per sqm at Compound Aqmar October?

The installment price per m² at Compound Aqmar October starts from EGP 41,500 for 129 to 131 m² three-bedroom apartments and averages EGP 42,500 to 48,500 across the other apartment bands. Duplexes average EGP 54,000 per m² and penthouses EGP 52,500, before the launch discount of up to 5%.

Who is the developer of Compound Aqmar October?

Compound Aqmar October is developed by Kayan Developments in a joint venture with Elaf Developments, the company founded in 2008 behind KAWN, Cairo Plaza, and Panorama Mall. Kayan’s portfolio includes K Business Park, C’est La Vie Mall, Zed49 Mall, and Hub 44, and the two firms previously partnered on Vida Residence in October Gardens.

When is the delivery date of Compound Aqmar October?

Compound Aqmar October does not yet have an officially announced handover year from the developer. Brokerage listings quote 2029, described as three years from the contract date, which fits a newly launched 41-acre first phase. Buyers should confirm the delivery clause and delay-penalty terms in the sales contract before paying the deposit.

Is Compound Aqmar October fully finished or semi-finished?

Compound Aqmar October delivers all units fully finished, including apartments from 70 m², duplexes, penthouses, Family House units, and hotel-serviced apartments. Some aggregator listings still describe the project as semi-finished, but the developer’s current price list is for finished units, so the installment price already includes the finishing package.

What is the booking deposit at Compound Aqmar October?

The reservation deposit at Compound Aqmar October is EGP 50,000 for residential units and EGP 100,000 for hotel-serviced apartments. The deposit is followed by a 10% or 15% down payment depending on the plan chosen, with the balance paid over 12 or 6 years respectively, interest-free and without annual lump sums.

Summary

Compound Aqmar October combines road frontage on Al Wahat Road opposite MSA University, fully finished units from 70 m² to 287 m² across 41 acres, and interest-free payment plans of up to 12 years with a 10% down payment. Priced from EGP 3,790,000 with an EGP 50,000 deposit and backed by the Kayan and Elaf partnership, it fits families seeking a finished home near the university and investors positioning early on a corridor that is still being built out. To check the latest availability and prices or to arrange a site visit, send a request through the form on this page.

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