Keys 52 New Cairo inverts the formula Hassan Allam Properties normally works with. Instead of a community stretched across hundreds of acres, the developer took a single acre inside Golden Square, on North 90th Street, and placed three residential buildings on it holding 52 homes in total. That unit count is the product rather than a detail, because it fixes the project as a boutique, low density address aimed at buyers who want a fully finished apartment in the busiest quarter of New Cairo instead of a membership in a large town.

Prices at Keys 52 New Cairo open at EGP 15,500,000 for a fully finished apartment, with a per metre rate running between EGP 123,000 and EGP 137,000 depending on unit type, floor and position within the block. Hassan Allam Properties, founded in 1936 and now carrying more than eight decades of construction and development history, sells the units on a plan that starts at 10% down and spreads instalments across five years. The sections below work through the site plan, the unit mix, the true cost of ownership once fees are counted, the surrounding Golden Square price map, and the specific buyer this model was built for.

Attribute	Value
Project	Keys 52 New Cairo (Fifth Settlement)
Developer	Hassan Allam Properties, established 1936
Address	Golden Square, North 90th Street, directly behind the Al Marasem compound
Plot size	Approximately one acre
Buildings	3 residential blocks
Storeys per block	Ground floor, 3 typical floors, one penthouse level
Total homes	52
Unit types	Apartments and penthouses
Size range	126 to 265 m²
Entry price	From EGP 15,500,000
Price per m²	EGP 123,000 to EGP 137,000, updated 2026
Finishing	Fully finished
Entry payment plan	10% down, instalments up to 5 years
Clubhouse	Free membership for buyers

What makes Keys 52 New Cairo different from a large New Cairo compound?

Keys 52 New Cairo holds 52 homes on roughly one acre, while a conventional New Cairo compound spreads several thousand units across hundreds of acres. That ratio puts every facility within a short walk of every front door and caps the neighbour count permanently, because there is no second phase to release.

The arithmetic behind that claim is worth spelling out, since it drives most of the project’s other decisions. One acre is roughly 4,200 m², and 52 homes across three blocks works out at around 17 homes per block, or three to four apartments on each of the four residential floors. A density that low is what allows the developer to leave the majority of the plot as open ground rather than building footprint, and it is the reason the site plan can afford landscaped strips and water features between the blocks instead of packing them together.

Scarcity of this kind behaves differently on resale than scale does. A large compound keeps releasing inventory for years, so an owner reselling in phase two competes with the developer’s own price list for phase five. Here the supply is closed at 52 homes from launch, which means a resale in five years competes only with whichever handful of neighbours happen to be selling that month.

The Golden Square address and what actually sits around it

Keys 52 New Cairo sits in Golden Square, the pocket of New Cairo bounded by the Fifth Settlement’s main axes, on North 90th Street and directly behind the Al Marasem compound. Golden Square earned its name because almost everything inside it is upper tier residential at controlled density, which gives the compound a homogeneous urban envelope in both resident profile and property value. Sitting on North 90th Street specifically hands the project direct access to the commercial and administrative spine of the Fifth Settlement, where the banks, clinics, restaurants and retail of New Cairo are concentrated.

The address also plugs into the road network that governs how long it takes to leave New Cairo. The Ring Road, which connects the Fifth Settlement to the rest of Greater Cairo, runs close to the project, and El Salam Axis, the Cairo to Suez Road and the Cairo to Ain Sokhna Road are all within short reach. Those links are what turn the New Administrative Capital and Cairo International Airport into drives measured in minutes rather than hours outside peak periods.

Drive times to the places residents actually use

The times below come from the project’s own data and describe the sporting, educational, medical and retail anchors of the Fifth Settlement that a resident would reach on an ordinary week:

Platinum Club: 3 minutes, putting a full facility sports club within a few minutes of the front gate.
Waterway 2: 7 minutes, covering dining and everyday retail.
The American University in Cairo (AUC): 8 minutes, which matters to families with university age children and to anyone letting to academic tenants.
Point 90 Mall: 9 minutes, for weekly shopping and cinema.
Air Force Specialized Hospital: 15 minutes, giving advanced medical care inside a quarter of an hour.
CODE Club: 16 minutes, as a second sporting option.
Cairo Festival City Mall: 19 minutes, the largest retail and entertainment destination in the district.

The immediate neighbours matter as much as the drive times. The project shares its surroundings with established addresses including the Elen compound and the Pixel Business Center, which means the commercial and service layer around the project is already trading rather than promised in a future phase. That removes the emerging district risk that buyers carry in newly opened areas, where the schools, pharmacies and supermarkets arrive years after handover. Here the services exist on the day the keys change hands.

Three blocks, 52 homes: how the acre is laid out

The site plan divides the acre into three residential blocks, each rising a ground floor plus three typical floors, topped by a penthouse level. Keeping the vertical profile low caps the number of homes per block and leaves generous gaps between the structures, which the developer filled with landscaping, walkways and artificial lakes. The practical effect is that most units look out onto planting and water rather than into a facing balcony, an outcome that high density compounds struggle to deliver at any price.

Land allocation follows the same logic. The larger share of the acre goes to open and green ground, with buildings and internal roads confined to the smaller share. The lakes and water channels threaded between the blocks are not purely decorative, because they work as natural separators that raise privacy between the three masses. Externally the architecture follows a contemporary European line with clean geometry, a language Hassan Allam Properties has leaned on across its more recent launches.

One design decision deserves singling out. The gym sits on the roof of the buildings rather than in a basement, which frees additional ground level area for planting and gives residents natural light and ventilation while training, with a raised outlook over the district. A swimming pool and a restaurant occupy the shared areas at ground level. On a one acre plot, moving a facility upward is the difference between a green courtyard and a car park.

Unit types, sizes and who each layout was drawn for

Keys 52 New Cairo offers two categories of home, apartments and penthouses, across a size band of 126 to 265 m². Spreading that variety over only 52 homes means each individual layout exists in very small numbers, so scarcity applies at the floor plan level and not just at the project level. The table sets out the size split and the bedroom count attached to each:

Unit type	Size (m²)	Bedrooms
Apartment	126	2 bedrooms
Apartment (special unit)	191	2 bedrooms
Apartment	195 to 212	3 bedrooms
Penthouse	264 to 265	3 bedrooms plus a living room

The 126 m² two bedroom apartment is the entry layout and targets newly married couples and small families who want a workable home in a strong address without paying for area they will not use. It is also the unit that sets the project’s headline price, so it carries the lowest capital requirement of anything on the list. For a first purchase inside Golden Square, it is the layout that makes the address reachable.

The 191 m² special unit keeps the two bedroom count but adds substantial floor area, which produces larger rooms and more separation between living and sleeping zones. It suits a buyer who wants the comfort of a three bedroom footprint without a third bedroom sitting unused, and couples who work from home and need a genuine study rather than a converted corner. Because it is described as a special unit, it exists in very limited numbers within the 52.

Three bedroom apartments between 195 and 212 m² serve the core family market, with the extra bedroom and wider living areas that a household with two or more children needs day to day. The 17 m² spread between the smallest and largest of these is enough to change the usable width of the reception, so the choice within the band is a real one rather than a rounding difference.

Penthouses reaching 265 m² sit at the top of the project, combining three bedrooms with a separate living room and elevated views over the landscaping. With one penthouse above each block, the project contains three of them against 49 apartments, which gives them the highest scarcity ratio inside an already limited development. That ratio is the factor most likely to support their value over a long hold compared with the repeated floor plates below.

How much does an apartment at Keys 52 New Cairo cost?

Keys 52 New Cairo starts at EGP 15,500,000 per unit, with the square metre rate ranging from EGP 123,000 to EGP 137,000 according to unit type, floor and position inside the block. Prices are updated for 2026 and include full finishing, so no additional finishing budget follows handover.

Those two figures reconcile with each other, which is worth checking before trusting any price list. Dividing the EGP 15,500,000 entry price by the 126 m² entry area gives roughly EGP 123,000 per square metre, exactly the bottom of the stated per metre band. The headline price and the rate card therefore describe the same unit rather than two unrelated numbers, and a buyer can use the band to sanity check a quote on any other layout. A 212 m² three bedroom at the top of the range, for instance, reaches around EGP 29,000,000 on the same arithmetic.

Full finishing changes how that price should be read. Finishing an apartment of this size in the Fifth Settlement to a matching standard can add millions of pounds and several months of work if the unit is delivered semi finished. Because finishing is already inside the EGP 15,500,000, the fair comparison is against move in ready stock in the same district, not against semi finished units that look cheaper on the advertised line and end up costing more once the work is done.

How Keys 52 New Cairo prices compare inside Golden Square

Placed against its neighbours, the project lands in the competitive middle of the New Cairo band rather than at either extreme. Several nearby compounds open lower, with 90 Avenue from EGP 12,700,000, Azad Views from EGP 13,000,000 and Edge from EGP 14,500,000. Others open higher, with Eleven from EGP 16,300,000, Kairo from EGP 16,500,000 and Ivory East from EGP 17,640,000.

An entry point of EGP 15,500,000 therefore sits between those two groups, which is a defensible position given the Golden Square location, the full finishing and a supply capped at 52 homes. The more useful comparison, though, is not the advertised number but what the number buys. Many of the cheaper launches are sold semi finished, so their real cost climbs once the buyer pays for finishing and waits out the work. Compared on a finished basis, the compound competes with ready stock, where its address and its limited supply are the differentiators.

Payment plan, deposits and the costs buyers forget to budget

Hassan Allam Properties offers instalments extending to five years at Keys 52 New Cairo, opening with a down payment from 10% of the unit value. According to the circulated project data, a second payment of 10% follows three months after contract, with the balance divided across the repayment term. The full structure reads as follows:

Down payment: from 10% of the unit value.
Second payment: 10% three months after contract, per the circulated project data.
Instalment term: up to 5 years on the remaining value.
Reservation deposit: EGP 250,000, refundable, per the circulated project data.
Maintenance fee: 10% of the unit value.
Garage fee: EGP 200,000.

Applied to the entry unit, that structure produces figures a buyer can plan against. A 10% down payment on EGP 15,500,000 is EGP 1,550,000, and the second 10% brings the total paid within the first three months to EGP 3,100,000. The remaining EGP 12,400,000 spread over five years averages roughly EGP 2,480,000 a year, or close to EGP 207,000 a month. These monthly and annual figures are derived from the published headline terms rather than quoted by the developer, so treat them as a planning estimate and not a contractual schedule.

The items sitting outside the unit price deserve equal attention, because they are where budgets usually break. Maintenance at 10% of unit value adds EGP 1,550,000 on the entry apartment, and the garage adds a further EGP 200,000, neither of which appears in the advertised price. Every buyer does receive free clubhouse membership within the facilities package, which offsets a recurring cost rather than a capital one. Payment offers in this market are revised periodically, so confirm the current official schedule with the developer in writing before signing.

Finishing standard and handover timing

Units at Keys 52 New Cairo are delivered fully finished, which makes them habitable or rentable the moment they are handed over with no further finishing works. For an investor that removes the gap between purchase and first rental income, and for an end user it removes a contracting project that typically runs months and swallows management time.

Handover timing is less fixed and should be treated accordingly. Project sources put the average handover window at roughly one year to a year and a half from the contract date for some phases, with the exact date varying by unit type and by how far the specific block has progressed. Because those dates differ between phases and can move, fix the handover date in writing inside the purchase contract and inspect the actual construction stage of the target block before you commit.

Amenities packed into a single acre

Despite its compact footprint, Keys 52 New Cairo carries a complete services package covering daily and leisure needs inside the gates. Concentrating those facilities on one acre means every service is a walk of a few minutes from any unit, where large communities require a car journey between one amenity and the next. The main facilities are:

Rooftop gym: equipped with current machines and an elevated outlook across the district.
Swimming pool: set in the shared areas and sized to serve residents of all three blocks.
Restaurant: serving local and international dishes inside the compound.
Green areas and artificial lakes: occupying the largest share of the land and separating the blocks from one another.
Clubhouse: with free membership for residents.
24/7 security: guarding, surveillance cameras and electronic gates on entries and exits.
Concierge and laundry services: covering the routine needs of residents.
Parking and scheduled maintenance: allocated per unit, with continuous upkeep of facilities and infrastructure.

Taken together the list spans the sporting, leisure and security layers a residential community needs, and the operating cost stays manageable because it is shared across high value units in a strong location. A small community can carry a concierge and a rooftop gym precisely because the service charge is calculated on unit value rather than on headcount.

Hassan Allam Properties, the developer behind Keys 52 New Cairo

Hassan Allam Properties is the real estate arm of Hassan Allam Holding, among the oldest and largest construction and development groups in Egypt, established in 1936 with more than eight decades of accumulated work. The portfolio spans residential, commercial, administrative and coastal development, and the group has built a reputation for construction quality and for meeting handover schedules. For an off plan purchase, that delivery record is the single factor that most reduces the standard risk of buying a home that does not yet exist.

The project joins a line of developments a buyer can go and inspect in person before committing. In New Cairo the company built Swan Lake Residences and Seasons Residence, and more recently The Phoenix in the Fifth Settlement. In Mostakbal City it developed The Valleys and Hub Town, and on the Red Sea it built Swan Lake El Gouna. That range across districts, formats and price tiers gives a buyer here real reference points for judging the execution quality to expect, rather than a brochure rendering.

Is Keys 52 New Cairo a sound investment?

Keys 52 New Cairo rests its investment case on three measurable factors: a Golden Square address, which is among the most demanded and most price stable pockets of the Fifth Settlement, a supply capped at 52 homes, which creates natural scarcity that supports resale value, and a developer operating since 1936 with a record of delivering on schedule.

Full finishing strengthens the rental side of that case. A finished unit can be let from the day of handover, which shortens the gap between capital outlay and first income compared with semi finished stock that needs further spending and several months of work first. Proximity to the American University in Cairo at 8 minutes and to the district’s commercial centres widens the tenant pool across families, academics and professionals, which is what keeps occupancy steady between leases.

The counterweight is liquidity at this price level. An entry ticket of EGP 15,500,000 before maintenance and garage fees narrows the buyer pool on resale, and a project of 52 homes generates few enough transactions that no dependable internal price history will exist for years. Both points argue for a longer hold rather than a short flip. These conclusions are drawn from the stated location, finishing standard and developer record, and are not a guarantee of any particular return.

This analysis is provided for guidance only and is not investment advice.

Who Keys 52 New Cairo fits, and who should look elsewhere

What distinguishes the project is the combination of a Golden Square location, full finishing, low density and an established developer, delivered through an integrated services package inside a compact, walkable footprint. Those elements point to a precisely defined group of buyers:

Families and couples looking for a move in ready, fully finished home in a central Fifth Settlement position.
Buyers who value privacy and low density over the scale and crowding of large communities.
Investors targeting a limited supply unit in an area of stable demand that can be let immediately on handover.

The most commonly raised drawback is the same attribute that defines the project. With 52 homes on one acre, buyers who want expansive grounds, multiple pools, internal schools and the amenity depth of a several hundred acre community will not find it here. Whether that is a fault or a feature depends entirely on what the buyer is shopping for, because the limited unit count is exactly what generates the privacy, the exclusivity and the resale scarcity. Keys 52 New Cairo is not a project for someone who wants a large community, it is a project for someone who wants a rare unit in a strong location.

Frequently asked questions about Keys 52 New Cairo

When does Keys 52 New Cairo hand over?

Keys 52 New Cairo reports an average handover window of about one year to a year and a half from contract date on some phases, with no single fixed year published across the project. Dates vary by unit type and construction stage, so record the handover date contractually before signing.

What is included in the price at Keys 52 New Cairo?

The price at Keys 52 New Cairo covers a fully finished unit, so no finishing budget follows handover. Maintenance at 10% of unit value and a garage fee of EGP 200,000 are charged separately on top of the unit price, while clubhouse membership is included free for buyers.

How many units are there in Keys 52 New Cairo?

Keys 52 New Cairo contains 52 homes in total, split across three residential blocks on roughly one acre. One penthouse sits above each block, giving three penthouses and 49 apartments, with sizes running from 126 m² to 265 m² and no further phases planned.

Can a unit in Keys 52 New Cairo be rented out immediately?

Keys 52 New Cairo delivers units fully finished, so an owner can list a home for rent from the handover date without further works. The 8 minute drive to the American University in Cairo and the surrounding commercial district supports demand from family, academic and professional tenants.

The short version

Keys 52 New Cairo puts 52 fully finished homes on one acre of Golden Square, priced from EGP 15,500,000 with instalments across five years and backed by a developer working since 1936. Its case rests on a closed supply, a finished product and a central Fifth Settlement address rather than on scale. To check current prices, payment terms and remaining availability, send your enquiry through the contact form on this page.

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