Palm Hills Developments Duplexes

A duplex is one home spread over two levels by an internal stair, keeping reception and kitchen on one storey and bedrooms on the other. It opens in Mostakbal City near EGP 15 million with layouts reaching 264 sqm, while the elevated October homes start at EGP 11.3 million and finish around EGP 51.741 million by phase and size.

The same type appears in the Fifth Settlement, Palm Parks, The Village Gate, Village Garden Katameya and west of Alexandria, quoted on request against the storey, the garden and the outlook. On the coast it shows up inside the Sidi Abdel Rahman and El Dabaa resorts, where the season works nothing like a Cairo home.

Ask for the area of each level before anything else. A 260 sqm home split 160 and 100 is a different house from one split 130 and 130, and where the stair lands inside the living room eats into the usable reception space and dictates how the whole room can be furnished.

Then choose between a ground-floor duplex with a garden and an upper duplex with a terrace. The first suits a family with young children and gives direct access outside; the second brings privacy, a wider outlook and less noise, and the price gap between them inside one building often exceeds the gap between two projects.

Compare the duplex with its real alternative: a larger single-floor apartment or a small townhouse. A duplex separates living from sleeping for less than a ground-floor home with a full garden usually costs, but it means stairs every day, which is a practical question for older buyers rather than a financial one.

Finally, read the running terms: the annual maintenance charge, the distance from the lift to your door, how many homes share one entrance, and where the parking and its shade sit. These lines settle a choice between two homes of similar size and price in one project.