Bareq Tower New Capital City

Bareq Tower New Capital City: an obelisk, a lighthouse and a minaret in one Downtown tower

Shops, clinics and offices share Bareq Tower New Capital City, an Inverse Group Developments tower in Downtown, New Capital City, on the northern side of the Mohamed Bin Zayed Axis. It is published as next to the Al Masa hotel, the Gold Market and Misr Mosque. Its name comes from the Arabic for "shining", and its design combines the forms of an obelisk, the Alexandria lighthouse and a minaret.

The design and the floor areas

Those three forms traditionally narrow towards the top, so ask for each floor's plan, whether the upper floors are as large as the lower ones, and how that affects their price per metre. Ask too whether the façade is glass or stone, and who cleans and maintains it.

Three zones inside the tower

• Offices: office floors, a roof lounge and a coffee-break area.
• Retail: branded shops and a food court.
• Medical: clinics with reception and waiting areas, plus pharmacies and first aid.

There is also a gym and spa with changing rooms. Sizes, prices and the number of floors are all yet to be announced for Bareq, so ask Inverse Group for the floor split and what is available in each zone.

Published services

Solar power, generators, central air conditioning, fire and earthquake sensors with fire-fighting, round-the-clock security cameras, lifts and escalators, parking, information and lost-property desks, smoking areas, cleaning and maintenance. Ask whether the gym and spa are for owners and their staff or the public, what the service charge comes to per metre each year, and the parking allocation per unit.

Clinics beside a pharmacy

Pharmacies and first aid are published in the same building, so ask whether the pharmacies are on the clinic floor or the ground floor, and whether a lift reaches the medical zone straight from the car park.

Downtown neighbours

Around the tower are commercial projects selling small units: Moonreal Tower at 300 metres, smallest unit 38 m² for 3,922,864; 5 Business Hub at 500 metres, 34 m² for 4,042,500; Central Point at 600 metres, 32 m² for 2,992,000; and Oaks Egypt at 700 metres, 30 m² for 5,410,000. Their metre runs from about 93,000 to 180,000, so compare Bareq per metre and ask about floor and position.

The tower is also published as near the Central Bank, the monorail station, the Presidency, Parliament, the Opera and the Green River, with road access from the Suez Road, the Regional Ring and Bin Zayed.

Inverse Group

The brochure says the company has worked for about 20 years in Egypt, the UAE, Kuwait and Canada and entered Egypt in 2020; here it also has W51 Business Complex in the New Capital and Triomphe 10 in New Cairo. Ask Bareq's handover date and how far its other Egyptian projects have got.

After a Downtown office or clinic? Message Masharf for Bareq's current units, prices and instalment terms.