Palm Hills Developments Penthouses

A penthouse takes the top floor of the building and adds a wide terrace or a private roof above the indoor area. Sizes run from 142 to 239 sqm at Capital Gardens and between 248 and 360 sqm at Palm Parks, differences large enough that comparing price per metre between two projects means little until you know how much of it is terrace.

Value tracks the project, the floor and the outlook: Mostakbal City homes step from EGP 5.3 million to EGP 23.35 million, the elevated October project spans EGP 11.3 up to EGP 51.741 million, and the top New Zayed tier stands at EGP 95.012 million, while Palm Parks, The Village and Village Garden Katameya are quoted on request.

Ask for the areas broken out: the indoor space alone, then the terrace, then the roof where one exists. Some offers merge all three into a single figure, which makes the price per metre look light while the covered space you actually live in is far smaller than it appears.

Check what you may do with the roof. Ask whether a pergola, an outdoor kitchen or a small pool is permitted, how high the parapets stand and whether the roof overlooks neighbouring homes. The rules differ between Capital Gardens, Palm Parks and PX, and they belong in the contract rather than the brochure.

Inspect insulation and cooling before anything else in a top-floor home: roof insulation, which way the sun crosses the terrace, and where the condenser units sit. A well-designed penthouse in Cairo behaves very differently in a summer bill from an identical one on paper.

Finally, compare the alternatives inside the same project. A larger mid-floor apartment or a duplex with a garden can suit a family with young children better, while the penthouse stays the right answer for anyone who wants top-floor privacy, an open outlook and somewhere to entertain outdoors.