Compound The Icon Gardens New Cairo occupies 12 acres inside Hay El Andalus, and that number is the single most useful thing a buyer can know about it. Style Home Real Estate Development did not buy a thousand-acre plot and stretch it across a decade of phases. It bought a mid-size parcel in an already-finished part of the Fifth Settlement, filled it with low-rise buildings of ground floor plus five repeated floors, and pushed the remaining land into green spaces, walkways and distributed swimming pools. The result is a mini-compound rather than a city, with a unit count small enough that the whole development can be walked end to end.
That scale decision shapes everything else on the price list. Apartments at The Icon Gardens New Cairo start at 110 m² and run to a 262 m² penthouse with a private roof of 75 to 80 m², prices open at EGP 5,900,000, and the payment structure stretches from a full cash purchase at a 30% discount to a 20% down payment repaid across ten years. The compound sits directly opposite Hyde Park compound on a side street off 90th Street, which places it inside the mature service belt of New Cairo rather than on its expanding edge. This page sets out every attribute the developer has published, the arithmetic behind each payment plan, and the two data points the record still does not confirm.
Why a 12-acre footprint changes how the compound lives
Density is the attribute most New Cairo buyers underestimate. A 500-acre masterplan delivers thousands of units into the same resale market at the same time, and it delivers them across eight or ten years, which means a buyer in phase one lives beside active construction for most of a decade. This compound inverts that arithmetic. Twelve acres, built at a low building ratio with wide green gaps between blocks, caps the number of apartments the project can ever release, and it caps the construction window along with it.
The height limit reinforces the effect. Every building in the compound rises to ground floor plus five repeated floors, with no towers anywhere in the layout. Five-storey blocks keep stairwell traffic light, keep service access short, and keep sightlines low enough that upper-floor apartments look across landscape rather than into a neighbouring facade. They also mean the internal road network stays simple, because there are fewer vehicles to route around a smaller number of entrances.
The trade-off is honest and worth stating. A 12-acre compound cannot host a golf course, an international school campus or a 40-feddan central park. Buyers who want that scale of amenity should be looking at the large masterplans further east along the Middle Ring Road. What a compact site can do, and what Style Home has built here, is put a pool, a gym, a retail mall and a landscaped walkway within a three-minute walk of every front door.
Inside the masterplan: green spaces, pools and an internal retail mall
The land inside the compound divides into three uses. Residential blocks take the smaller share under a deliberately low building ratio. The larger share carries landscaped green areas, pedestrian walkways and swimming pools distributed between the buildings rather than concentrated in one central node. A third portion is set aside for an internal commercial mall that serves both the compound’s residents and the surrounding streets of Hay El Andalus.
Distributing the pools rather than clustering them changes the daily experience in a measurable way. In a single-pool compound, every resident crosses the site to reach the water, and the pool deck carries the full population on a summer weekend. Spreading pools between the blocks means each cluster of buildings has its own water feature within walking distance, and it means the loading on any one deck stays low. One of the pools carries a dedicated children’s section, separated from the main swimming area.
The walkway network runs on its own alignment, separate from the car routes, and carries walking, jogging and cycling. Car parking sits beneath the buildings, with allocated spaces tied to the units, which keeps surface parking off the landscaped areas. Because the blocks are positioned around this green core, the majority of apartments face internal landscape or a pedestrian walkway rather than an external street, so the view from a typical balcony is planting and paving rather than passing traffic.
The internal mall is the element that distinguishes this masterplan from a plain residential block group. A retail component sized to serve the neighbourhood as well as the compound generates footfall, which sustains the tenant mix, which in turn keeps daily errands inside the gate. For an owner, a working retail strip attached to the address is also a resale argument, because a compound whose ground-floor commercial units are occupied reads very differently to a viewer than one whose retail bay has sat empty since handover.
Where is Compound The Icon Gardens New Cairo located?
Compound The Icon Gardens New Cairo sits in Hay El Andalus in the heart of New Cairo (Fifth Settlement), on a side street branching off 90th Street and directly facing Hyde Park compound, separated from it only by the service road. The position places the project minutes from the American University in Cairo and inside the Fifth Settlement’s established service belt.
Hay El Andalus is not a frontier address. It is one of the earliest and most completely built districts of the Fifth Settlement, which means its roads, utilities and street lighting were finished years ago and its retail, school and clinic layer is already trading. A buyer purchasing here is not underwriting the risk that the surrounding infrastructure arrives late. That distinction matters more in Egypt than in most markets, because a large share of New Cairo’s newer compounds sell on the promise of an area that has yet to be built.
Facing Hyde Park compound is a locational asset in its own right. Hyde Park anchors a large landscaped block on the Andalus side of 90th Street, so the outlook across the service road is toward an established gated development rather than toward unbuilt land or a commercial frontage. Buyers who track New Cairo pricing know that plots facing a mature compound have historically held value better than plots facing open desert on the district edge.
Landmarks and access points around the compound
- The American University in Cairo (AUC): a few minutes by car via 90th Street, and the single biggest driver of year-round rental demand in this part of the Fifth Settlement.
- Hyde Park compound: directly opposite the project, with only the branch road between the two entrances.
- Cairo International Airport: reached through the El Mosheer Tantawy Axis, the fastest northbound route out of New Cairo.
- Cairo Festival City Mall: the largest retail and cinema destination in New Cairo, on the 90th Street corridor.
- Downtown Mall and Point 90 Mall: the two everyday shopping and dining clusters closest to Hay El Andalus.
- The Middle Ring Road: the direct connection to Greater Cairo, Nasr City and the western districts.
- International schools: CIS, BIS and the Choueifat schools all operate within the Fifth Settlement catchment.
- Private hospitals: the Fifth Settlement’s private medical cluster covers the area, so emergency access does not require leaving New Cairo.
What Hay El Andalus offers a resident day to day
Hay El Andalus functions as one of the densest service districts in New Cairo, and its character is the reason a compact compound works here at all. The district carries a concentration of international schools, private hospitals and the two mall clusters at Downtown and Point 90, with Cairo Festival City a short drive along the 90th Street corridor. A resident of a 12-acre compound does not need an on-site school or an on-site clinic, because both already exist within a few minutes of the gate.
The district’s maturity also shapes the neighbour profile. Hay El Andalus has been occupied long enough to have a settled resident population of families working in New Cairo’s business parks and academic staff and students attached to the American University. A buyer entering at the EGP 5,900,000 tier is buying into an established social fabric rather than waiting several years for one to form, which is a genuine difference from a first-phase purchase in an outlying masterplan.
Unit types and sizes at The Icon Gardens New Cairo
The unit mix here is deliberately narrow. Style Home built apartments and penthouses only, with no townhouses, twin houses or standalone villas anywhere in the masterplan. That decision keeps the density low, keeps the building typology uniform at ground floor plus five, and concentrates the entire offer on two buyer groups: small to mid-size families, and investors buying for rent or resale.
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| Unit type | Area (m²) | Bedrooms | Best suited to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment | From 110 | 2 | Small families, first-time buyers and rental investors |
| Apartment | 140 to 180 | 3 | Mid-size families needing a third bedroom or a home office |
| Penthouse | Up to 262, plus a 75 to 80 m² private roof | 4 | Extended families and buyers seeking an open terrace |
The 110 m² two-bedroom apartment is the entry product and the one the starting price refers to. At that size, a New Cairo layout typically yields a reception, two bedrooms, a kitchen and two bathrooms, which is exactly the configuration that rents fastest to a young couple or to two sharing postgraduates near the American University. It is also the size band that resells fastest in the Fifth Settlement, because it clears the widest pool of buyers.
The 140 to 180 m² three-bedroom apartments are the family product. The extra 30 to 70 m² over the entry unit is what converts a starter apartment into a long-term home, absorbing a third bedroom, a larger reception or a study. Families relocating from Nasr City or Heliopolis to be closer to work in New Cairo tend to land in this band, because it matches the floor area they are leaving behind without the maintenance load of a villa.
The penthouse is the scarcity product. At up to 262 m² of internal area plus a private roof terrace of 75 to 80 m², it delivers close to 340 m² of usable space on the top floor of a five-storey block, with four bedrooms and an open outdoor level that no other unit type in the compound has. In a 12-acre development there is one top floor per building, so the total penthouse count is inherently small. That scarcity is the argument for the price premium, and it is the reason penthouses in low-rise New Cairo compounds tend to hold value through soft market cycles.
Prices and price per square metre
Unit prices at The Icon Gardens New Cairo start from EGP 5,900,000 for the smallest apartments, and the figure moves upward with unit type, floor level and outlook onto the landscape or a pool. Applying the entry price to the 110 m² entry size puts the effective rate at roughly EGP 53,600 per square metre at the bottom of the range, which is the number worth carrying into any comparison with neighbouring compounds.
Two cautions apply to that rate. Older price lists for this project still circulate online quoting materially lower per-metre figures, and they no longer reconcile with the current entry price against the smallest published unit size. Egyptian new-build pricing has also been revised repeatedly across recent cycles, with developers reissuing lists several times a year. Treat any per-metre number found on an aggregator as historical, and ask for the developer’s current list before signing anything.
No published price is attached to the penthouse tier in the developer’s released data, so this page does not state one. A buyer targeting the 262 m² unit should request that line item specifically, because top-floor pricing in low-rise compounds usually carries a premium over the per-metre rate applied to standard floors, and the private roof is often priced on a separate basis from the internal area.
Payment plans and what each one actually costs
Style Home publishes five ways to buy at The Icon Gardens New Cairo, spanning a full cash settlement at one end and a ten-year instalment schedule at the other. The plans are unusually granular for a compound of this size, and the spread between them is wide enough that the same apartment can carry a monthly commitment three times larger under one plan than another.
- Cash: a discount of up to 30% off the total price for immediate full payment.
- 10% down payment: the balance repaid over 7 years in equal instalments. This is the lowest entry barrier on the list.
- 15% down payment: the balance repaid over 8 years in equal instalments.
- 20% down payment: the balance repaid over 10 years, the longest schedule the developer offers.
- 25% down payment: a short 3-year schedule for buyers who want the debt cleared quickly.
Applied to the EGP 5,900,000 entry unit, those percentages translate into concrete numbers. The cash route settles the unit at EGP 4,130,000, a saving of EGP 1,770,000 against list. The 10% plan needs EGP 590,000 at contract and spreads EGP 5,310,000 across 84 months, close to EGP 63,200 a month. The 15% plan takes EGP 885,000 up front and spreads EGP 5,015,000 across 96 months, near EGP 52,200 a month.
The longer and shorter ends of the range sit far apart. The 20% plan requires EGP 1,180,000 at contract and spreads EGP 4,720,000 across 120 months, roughly EGP 39,300 a month, the lightest monthly load available. The 25% plan takes EGP 1,475,000 up front and compresses EGP 4,425,000 into 36 months, close to EGP 122,900 a month. All five figures are calculated on the entry price and on equal instalments, so they should be treated as a planning guide rather than a quotation.
Which plan is correct depends entirely on what the buyer is optimising. A liquid cash buyer capturing the 30% discount is effectively earning a guaranteed return that few Egyptian instruments match. An end user protecting monthly cash flow should take the 20% plan over ten years. An investor buying to rent should compare the 20% plan’s monthly figure against the achievable rent in Hay El Andalus, because the gap between those two numbers, not the headline price, determines whether the unit carries itself.
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Amenities and services inside the compound
The amenity package inside the compound is built around the assumption that a resident should be able to complete a normal day without leaving the gate. Style Home covered the leisure, retail, fitness and security layers, and left the school and hospital layer to Hay El Andalus, which already supplies both within minutes of the entrance.
- Internal commercial mall: a retail component carrying a mix of brands and daily-need services, sized to serve the surrounding neighbourhood as well as residents.
- Multiple swimming pools: distributed between the residential blocks, including a separate children’s section.
- Health club and gym: equipped with current training machines, inside the compound.
- Walking, jogging and cycling tracks: routed separately from the vehicle network so the paths stay car-free.
- Landscaped green spaces: woven between the buildings and wrapped around the pool decks rather than pushed to the perimeter.
- 24-hour security: permanent guarding with surveillance cameras covering the project entrances.
- Underground parking: located beneath the buildings, with spaces allocated per unit.
- Children’s play areas: enclosed and set away from the main circulation routes.
Two of these deserve a second look. Separating the pedestrian tracks from the car routes is a design choice that only works on a site small enough to keep both networks short, and it is the reason a compact compound can feel safer for children than a much larger one with long internal roads. Placing the parking underground rather than on the surface is the other, because it is what frees the ground plane for the landscaping and walkways that the masterplan is built around.
Style Home Real Estate Development, the company behind the project
Style Home Real Estate Development is an Egyptian developer specialising in mid-scale residential and commercial projects, and it has concentrated almost all of its New Cairo activity inside a single district. The company was established in 2002 by Eng. Hussein Mohamed Dawoud, and its earlier work was built in Tanta, where its portfolio included the Flowers Compound, a group of residential buildings and the Tanta Modern Schools before the company moved its focus to the Fifth Settlement.
Inside Hay El Andalus the company has assembled a small cluster rather than a scattered portfolio. The Icon Residence, a 7-acre mini-compound in the same district, came first. The Icons Plaza commercial mall followed in the same geographic radius. The Icon Gardens is the third piece, and the largest of the three, which makes the compound part of a connected ecosystem the developer already operates rather than an isolated launch in unfamiliar territory.
That narrow geographic focus cuts both ways, and a buyer should weigh both sides. Concentrating in one district gives the developer real knowledge of the local market, the local authorities and the local contractor base, and it means its projects reinforce each other commercially. It also means the delivery track record is smaller than that of the large listed developers operating across several governorates. For anyone assessing schedule risk, the practical check is to visit The Icon Residence, which is already built and occupied in the same district, and judge the finish quality and the handover history there.
The Icon Gardens or The Icon Residence: which one fits?
The two compounds share a developer, a brand and a district, so buyers searching for one routinely surface the other. They are not interchangeable. The Icon Gardens spans 12 acres against 7 acres at The Icon Residence, and the extra land is spent on the green core, the distributed pools and the internal retail mall. The Icon Residence is the smaller and quieter of the pair, a compact block group with a stronger emphasis on privacy and a shorter list of on-site facilities.
The choice therefore comes down to what a buyer wants from the address. Anyone who values a retail strip, a gym, several pools and a landscaped walking network within the gate should be looking at the larger project. Anyone who wants the least possible activity around their front door, and who is content to use the district’s services rather than the compound’s, will find the smaller development a better match. The Icon Residence carries a second advantage for the cautious buyer: it is already delivered, so its build quality can be inspected before committing to an off-plan unit next door.
Investment analysis: who this compound suits
The investment case for The Icon Gardens New Cairo rests on three facts already established above, and it should be read as guidance rather than as investment advice. The first is the tenant pool. Hay El Andalus sits minutes from the American University in Cairo and inside the Fifth Settlement’s business and retail cluster, which generates rental demand from students, academic staff and office workers across the full calendar year rather than in a single seasonal window.
The second is supply. A 12-acre compound of five-storey blocks can only ever release a limited number of apartments, and a limited release is what protects a resale price. Owners in very large masterplans compete against the developer’s own unsold inventory for years after handover, because new phases keep arriving at the same address. That competition does not exist at this scale, and a seller here is competing against a handful of neighbours rather than hundreds.
The third is the payment structure. Five plans ranging from a 30% cash discount to a ten-year schedule give an investor room to engineer the cash flow deliberately. The 20% plan’s monthly figure of roughly EGP 39,300 on the entry unit is the number to test against achievable Andalus rents, because a unit whose rent covers a meaningful share of the instalment converts the purchase from a pure capital bet into a partly self-financing position.
The compound suits small and mid-size families working or studying in New Cairo, and investors targeting the university and business rental pool with a 110 to 180 m² apartment. It does not suit a large family looking for a standalone villa, a townhouse or a private garden, because the mix stops at apartments and penthouses. It also does not suit a buyer who wants resort-scale facilities such as a golf course or a large clubhouse campus, which a 12-acre site cannot physically accommodate. Any final decision should follow a site visit, a current price list and a formal offer from the developer.
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What the published record does not yet confirm
Two attributes are missing from the developer’s released data for this project, and this page will not fill them with an estimate. No confirmed handover year is published, and figures circulating on third-party listing portals disagree with one another, so a buyer should get the delivery date written into the contract rather than take it from an advertisement. The finishing specification is likewise unstated, and the difference between a semi-finished and a fully finished apartment can run to a significant share of the unit price, so it belongs on the same list of questions.
Three further items are worth requesting in writing before signing. Ask for the delay penalty clause and what it pays if handover slips. Ask for the maintenance deposit as a percentage and what it covers. Ask which facility management company will operate the compound after delivery, because on a 12-acre site with distributed pools and a retail mall, the quality of that operator determines what the address looks like five years from now.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the developer of The Icon Gardens?
The Icon Gardens New Cairo is developed by Style Home Real Estate Development, an Egyptian company founded in 2002 by Eng. Hussein Mohamed Dawoud. The developer built The Icon Residence and The Icons Plaza mall in the same Hay El Andalus district, and earlier delivered residential and school projects in Tanta.
What is the lowest down payment and the longest instalment period?
The Icon Gardens New Cairo starts at a 10% down payment repaid over 7 years, the lowest entry point on the list. The longest schedule is 10 years against a 20% down payment. A 25% down payment buys a compressed 3-year plan, and paying cash earns a discount of up to 30%.
What is the smallest apartment at The Icon Gardens?
The smallest apartment at The Icon Gardens New Cairo measures 110 m² with two bedrooms, and it is the unit the EGP 5,900,000 starting price refers to. Three-bedroom apartments run from 140 to 180 m², and the largest unit is a 262 m² penthouse with a private roof of 75 to 80 m².
Is The Icon Gardens a good rental investment?
The Icon Gardens New Cairo suits rental investment because Hay El Andalus sits minutes from the American University in Cairo and the Fifth Settlement’s business cluster, producing year-round tenant demand. The compound’s 12-acre footprint also limits total supply, which supports unit value on resale compared with far larger masterplans.
What is the difference between The Icon Gardens and The Icon Residence?
The Icon Gardens New Cairo covers 12 acres with distributed pools, a green core and an internal retail mall, while The Icon Residence occupies 7 acres in the same district as a smaller, quieter mini-compound with fewer on-site facilities. Both are Style Home projects inside Hay El Andalus.
The bottom line
Compound The Icon Gardens New Cairo trades scale for position and density. Twelve acres of low-rise blocks in a finished district facing Hyde Park, apartments from 110 m² opening at EGP 5,900,000, a 262 m² penthouse at the top of the range, and five payment routes from a 30% cash discount to ten years of instalments. It is a compact, service-rich address for buyers who want the Fifth Settlement’s mature core rather than its expanding edge.
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