Egypt's commercial property market deserved better plumbing

Togary started from a simple observation. If you want to buy an apartment in Egypt you have ten portals and thousands of listings. If you want to buy a commercial plot, a warehouse or an office floor, you mostly ask around and wait for someone to know someone. A multi-billion-pound market running on last-century tooling.

The reason is that Egypt's property portals are built for housing. Commercial sits inside them as a sub-category with the wrong fields: they ask how many bedrooms while the buyer wants the build ratio, and show kitchen photos while the tenant wants clear height, floor loading and power capacity.

Togary lists no residential property at all. Every field in our database exists because a commercial buyer asked for it: build ratio, permitted use, registration status, loading bays, three-phase power, operating licences, and yield on tenanted assets.

We are also not a noticeboard. Every asset passes our team before publication, and every transaction is run as a full brokerage: qualifying buyers, arranging inspections, and signing the brokerage agreement before the parties meet. On a sale our fee is 1% from the seller and the buyer pays nothing; on a lease it is half a month from each side. Either way it falls due only on completion.

Behind Togary is a team that has run sales operations and contact centres across Egypt and the Gulf for six years. We know how a pipeline is built and how a lead is worked to close, which is precisely what Egypt's commercial property market has been missing.