ORB Towers Sheikh Zayed

Description

ORB Towers Sheikh Zayed by Nations of Sky: Prices & Payment Plans 

ORB Towers is a mixed-use project in the Sheikh Zayed and 6th of October corridor in West Cairo, built by Nations of Sky Developments. It sits directly on Gamal Abdel Nasser Axis, next door to AEON Towers, roughly three minutes from Mall of Arabia.

The site runs to about 15 feddans. Two towers rise to 110 metres and hold over 500 residential and hotel units. Seven mid-rise buildings alongside them hold 289 finished apartments. Units start at 50 sqm, prices at roughly EGP 4.25 million, and the longest payment plan runs ten years off a 5% deposit. Handover begins mid-2028.

What follows is the confirmed data, four contradictions in the published material that you should settle before you sign anything, and the diligence that actually matters when a developer is two years old.

Figures checked October 2026. Prices, plans and dates come from the developer’s project material and shift between releases. Treat every number here as a starting point for a conversation with the sales office, not a quote.

Don’t confuse this with the other ORB

Before anything else, a housekeeping note that matters if you are searching online.

There is an ORB Tower in Dubai, in Mohammed Bin Rashid City, built by Meydan Sobha Group. Different country, different developer, no relation. There is also Zed Towers in Sheikh Zayed, which belongs to Ora Developers, not Nations of Sky. Egyptian search results mix all three freely.

This page is about ORB Towers in Sheikh Zayed, Egypt, by Nations of Sky Developments. If a price or floor plan you have seen elsewhere doesn’t match what is below, check which project it referred to.

What ORB Towers actually is

Four uses stacked on one site: apartments, hotel and serviced residences, offices, and retail. Nations of Sky describes it as a mixed-use urban destination rather than a compound, and its deputy chairman has said publicly that the location was picked for the growth rate of the surrounding area.

Developer:  Nations of Sky Developments, launched 2024

Location Gamal Abdel Nasser Axis, Sheikh Zayed / 6th of October corridor

Site area ~15 feddans (63,000 sqm)

• Towers 2, up to 110 m, 500+ units
• Mid-rise 7 buildings, 289 finished apartments
• Open space ~80% of the plan (~50,400 sqm)
• Entry price ~EGP 4,250,000 for a 50 sqm studio
• Rate per metre ~EGP 85,000
• Payment 5% down, up to 10 years
• Handover From mid-2028, finished

The thing to understand before you read any further is that “is ORB Towers a good buy?” has four different answers here, one per use. An apartment in the mid-rise buildings and a serviced residence in a tower are not variations on the same purchase. They have different tenants, different risks and different exit routes. Pick your use first. The rest of this page only becomes useful once you have.

ORB Towers location

The project fronts Gamal Abdel Nasser Axis, which branches off the Dahshour link. AEON Towers is immediately adjacent, and Mall of Arabia is a few minutes up the road. Both were built by Marakez, and that corner of the Zayed–October corridor is already developed and trading.

Destination Distance

• Mall of Arabia ~3 min
• Walk of Cairo ~5 min
• Gohayna Square ~5 min
• Al Ahly Club, Sheikh Zayed ~6 min
• Arkan Plaza ~8 min
• Dar Al Fouad Hospital ~8–10 min
• Sheikh Zayed Specialised Hospital ~8–10 min
• 26th of July axis ~10 min
• Mall of Egypt ~12 min
• Regional Ring Road ~12 min
• Grand Egyptian Museum ~15 min
• Wahat Road ~15 min
• Sphinx International Airport ~20 min

One correction to the marketing, and it is minor but it will matter to a buyer who cares about addresses. Listings for the adjacent AEON compound place that site between 6th of October City and Sheikh Zayed, on a branch of the Dahshour link. “Sheikh Zayed” is how this corridor is sold, and it is close enough to be fair, but the precise administrative position is worth confirming on your contract if the address itself is part of why you are buying.

What this corner of West Cairo already has

Mall of Arabia at three minutes is the most useful thing on that list. The project does not have to build a retail and dining ecosystem to be liveable on day one, because one of West Cairo’s biggest already sits next door, and its own shops and offices inherit footfall rather than having to generate it.

Two hospitals at eight to ten minutes gets skimmed by most buyers and shouldn’t be. Dar Al Fouad is one of the better private hospitals in the country. If you have young children or elderly parents, that proximity beats any amenity in the brochure, it never depreciates, and it widens your resale pool because older and wealthier buyers weigh it heavily.

The museum and the airport are the interesting pair. Fifteen minutes to the Grand Egyptian Museum and twenty to Sphinx gives the hotel component a catchment that holds together: a visitor lands on the Giza side of the city, reaches the project without crossing Cairo, and is a short drive from a world-class attraction. I find that persuasive as a reason the hospitality element exists. I would not treat it as a forecast, because hotel performance comes down to the operator, the tourism cycle and whatever gets built nearby, and none of that is settled.

For a Gulf buyer the airport number changes the arithmetic. Twenty minutes with no cross-city transfer makes short visits realistic, and finished delivery means nothing here needs your supervision.

ORB Towers prices

Entry is approximately EGP 4,250,000 for a 50 sqm studio. The stated average is around EGP 85,000 per square metre.

Unit Size From Per sqm

• Studio 50 sqm EGP 4,250,000 85,000
• 1-bed 100 sqm EGP 8,500,000 85,000
• 1-bed 110 sqm EGP 9,350,000 85,000
• 2-bed 145 sqm EGP 12,325,000 85,000
• Loft 160 sqm EGP 13,600,000 85,000
• 3-bed 210 sqm ~EGP 19,000,000 ~90,476
• 3-bed 220 sqm ~EGP 18,700,000 85,000

The rate is flat, which tells you exactly where to push

Divide every price by its area and you get EGP 85,000, over and over, from the studio up through the loft. That is unusual. Developers normally charge a premium per metre on the small entry unit because demand for it is deepest, and they discount the large ones to move them.

Here nobody does. Which means there is no clever play hiding between unit sizes, and your only real variables are floor, outlook and position within the site. That is where the negotiation lives.

Three things to ask the sales office, in this order. What does a higher floor cost in the towers, given they go to 110 metres and the view difference between level 4 and level 30 is substantial. Which units look over the gardens and water features, and which face a neighbouring block or the axis. And is there any price gap between a tower unit and a mid-rise unit of the same size, because those are different products and should arguably not cost the same.

Two numbers in the price list contradict each other

The 210 sqm three-bedroom is listed around EGP 19,000,000. The 220 sqm three-bedroom is listed around EGP 18,700,000. The larger apartment is about EGP 300,000 cheaper, and the 210 is the only unit in the entire range that breaks the EGP 85,000 rate, landing closer to EGP 90,500.

There may be a perfectly good reason. A better floor, a corner position, a view. The material doesn’t give one. On the figures as published, the 220 is better value on both counts, and I would ask directly what the 210 is buying you before accepting the difference.

Separately, the entry price appears twice in the material and doesn’t agree with itself. One passage says prices start around EGP 5,900,000. The detailed schedule gives the 50 sqm studio at EGP 4,250,000, which is consistent with the stated per-metre rate. I have used the schedule throughout because it is the more precise of the two. Find out what the EGP 5,900,000 refers to: a different unit type, a later phase, a different building.

Payment plan and installments

Two systems, both starting at a 5% deposit.

• Plan Down +3 months Term Price
• 1 5% 5% 8 years, equal instalments Base
• 2 5% 5% 10 years 6% above base

An EOI of EGP 200,000 applies to some units and comes off the contract value. The material’s own worked example: a EGP 8,500,000 apartment needs EGP 425,000 at signing.

Which plan costs less

The ten-year plan adds 6% to the price. On that EGP 8.5 million apartment, roughly EGP 510,000.

Read the 6% properly, because it is a one-off charge and not an annual rate. Spread over the two extra years of deferral it works out near 3% a year. Egyptian inflation has run well above that for most of the last decade, and so have local deposit rates. On those numbers the longer plan is the cheaper one in real terms, and it lowers what you pay annually at the same time.

The eight-year plan wins in one situation: you intend to settle early or sell before you finish paying. Then you want the lower base price and the shorter exposure.

Ask for both amortisation schedules in writing and compare them against whatever return your capital currently earns. I am not a financial adviser and this is a calculation, not a view. Have an accountant run it on your actual figures.

One more inconsistency. The material says instalments run “up to 8 years” in one place, then sets out both an eight-year and a ten-year plan elsewhere. Ten appears to be the maximum. Confirm which plans are actually open on the unit you want, because availability usually varies by building and phase.

ORB Towers units and areas

Type Size

• Studios, residential and hotel 50–65 sqm
• 1-bed 75–95 sqm
• 1-bed with terrace up to 110 sqm
• 2-bed 110–160 sqm
• 2-bed loft up to ~145 sqm
• 3-bed 160–235 sqm
• 3-bed loft ~200–215 sqm
• Branded / serviced residences studios and 1-bed-plus, hotel managed

Retail and offices various

Apartments and lofts come finished. There are no villas, townhouses or twin houses here, and if that is what you want, this is the wrong project category rather than the wrong project.

The 50 sqm studio is the most interesting unit on the list, and not because of its price. Small studios let more easily than anything else in an urban market, to more people, with the shortest void periods. In a building that also contains a hotel and serviced apartments, a studio owner has a second potential route as well, assuming the hospitality arrangement allows independent letting. Check that it does.

The 100 to 145 sqm band is where resale liquidity sits across Greater Cairo. Big enough for a family, cheap enough for a wide pool of buyers. If you are thinking about exit rather than only about living there, weight that.

Lofts are the odd ones out. Multi-level layouts are rare in Egyptian apartment stock, and scarcity can hold value. It can also mean a thin buyer pool when you come to sell, because a loft suits someone who specifically wants a loft. Both are true and which one dominates depends on the market you sell into.

Apartments and branded residences

This is the distinction the material glosses over, and it affects daily life more than any specification in the brochure.

The seven mid-rise buildings are residential only. 289 finished units, their own entrances, concierge, their own garages, and the three pools, clubhouse and gym. No hotel guests wheeling suitcases through your lobby, no office workers in your lift, no retail deliveries.

The two towers are genuinely mixed. Your apartment shares the building with hotel rooms, serviced units, offices and shops.

If you are going to live there, take the mid-rise buildings. Quieter, more predictable, and the circulation is yours. If you are buying to let, the towers have an argument: height buys a view at 110 metres, and sitting above hotel operations may help short-stay demand.

Before you sign for a branded or serviced residence, get answers on five points, because branded schemes carry obligations ordinary apartments don’t. Who operates the hotel, and is that agreement signed yet. Whether hospitality service fees are compulsory and what they cost annually. Whether you can let the unit yourself or must go through the hotel’s programme. If there is a programme, what the revenue split is and whether any quoted return is contractual or just indicative. And whether there is a cap on how many nights a year you may occupy your own apartment, because some schemes impose one.

Those terms are the difference between an income asset and an expensive apartment with strings. Get them in the contract.

Hotel apartments and hospitality

The towers contain a hotel, serviced apartments tied to hospitality services, and branded residences.

What the material does not say: who the operator is, what brand, what the management agreement contains, how many rooms, or what any of it is projected to earn. That is normal at launch. It is also the entire list of things that determine whether a serviced unit performs, because a serviced apartment is worth exactly what its operator and its contract make it worth.

So treat the hospitality angle as a prompt for questions rather than a yield. And if a salesperson quotes you a return, ask whether it is contractual. If it is, it belongs in the contract. If it isn’t, it is an estimate with a confident voice.

ORB Towers master plan

• Towers 2, up to 110 m, 500+ units across hotel, serviced residential, offices, retail
• Mid-rise 7 buildings, 289 finished apartments
• Open space ~80% (~50,400 sqm): central gardens, water features, pedestrian walkways
• Entrances Independent for the residential buildings
• Parking 3 underground levels beneath the towers, plus residential garages
• Recreation 3 pools, clubhouse, gym in the residential zone
• Interiors Double-height lobbies, concierge

How 80% open space works on 15 feddans

Fifteen feddans is 63,000 sqm. Leave 80% open and about 50,400 sqm stays as garden and walkway, which leaves roughly 12,600 sqm of footprint for two 110-metre towers and seven mid-rise buildings holding something over 789 units between them.

That is about 80 sqm of site per unit.

Both things are true at once and you should hold both. The open space is real, and residents of the mid-rise buildings in particular should get usable landscape outside their door. The density is also real. At 789-plus units on 15 feddans this is a vertical urban project wearing the language of a compound, and you should expect lift queues, busy pools in August and competition for parking accordingly.

One figure to request in writing. The material gives the remaining 20% while explicitly declining to call it the approved building ratio. That is a careful piece of phrasing and it suggests the open-space percentage and the official built-up ratio are measuring different things. Ask for the approved building ratio and the total built-up area. Those are the numbers that govern.

Three design decisions here will shape your day. Separate residential entrances, which is what keeps hotel check-in out of your lobby. Parking, where the question is how many spaces come with your unit and whether they are included or sold separately, because dense mixed-use projects fail on parking more often than on anything else. And the pools, clubhouse and gym, which the material places in the residential zone, so if you are buying in a tower, ask what you actually get access to.

Amenities and facilities

• Residential: concierge, double-height entrance lobbies, underground parking across three levels beneath the towers plus residential garages, and gardens over roughly 80% of the plan.
• Recreation: three pools in the residential zone, a clubhouse, a gym.
• Hospitality: a hotel in the towers, serviced apartments, branded residences.
• Commercial: retail, offices, restaurants and shopping integrated with the hotel uses.

Not specified anywhere in the material: backup generators, firefighting systems, CCTV coverage, waste handling, or the service charge. On a 789-unit mixed-use building those are not details. Ask for the full MEP specification and a projected annual service charge per square metre before you commit, because on a tower project that charge is a permanent cost and it belongs in your purchase decision.

ORB Towers delivery date

Handover starts mid-2028 and varies by building and unit type, with some units dated to 30 October 2028. The developer says construction began at launch.

Two years is a short off-plan horizon by current standards, where four and five-year handovers are common. That cuts both ways. You cannot use the apartment until 2028 and you carry construction risk from a company founded in 2024 until then. Against that, two years of a fixed pound price in an inflationary economy is precisely where off-plan buyers make money, provided the building gets built.

Construction starting at launch is a good sign and an easy one to check yourself. A developer putting concrete in the ground while it sells is behaving differently from one collecting deposits and waiting.

Four things in the contract, no exceptions. Your unit’s own delivery date, because “from mid-2028” describes a project and not an apartment. The delay penalty clause, which tells you more about how confident the developer really is than any date does. The finishing specification, itemised, because “high quality” is an adjective. And instalments tied to construction milestones rather than the calendar, which on a two-year build from a new company is the only protection that does real work.

Then go and look at the site yourself and compare what is standing against the schedule.

ORB Towers resale

There is no resale market documented in the current material, which is what you’d expect. The project launched recently and nothing hands over until 2028.

That costs you two useful tools. A live resale market proves units can actually be sold, and it shows you what buyers pay rather than what a price list asks.

So do two things instead. Ask whether contract assignment is allowed before handover, on what terms, and at what fee. In Egypt that is the main way out of an off-plan commitment before delivery, and the terms vary a lot between developers. Settle it before you sign, not when you need it.

Then benchmark against finished Sheikh Zayed stock on the resale market. If completed apartments of similar size trade near EGP 85,000 a metre, the off-plan discount is thin and you are carrying two years of risk for very little. If they trade well above it, the case is stronger.

Nations of Sky Developments

Egyptian company, launched in 2024, working across residential, coastal, commercial and administrative development in Greater Cairo and the North Coast. It is a partner in Jirian in New Sheikh Zayed alongside Mountain View and Palm Hills, which third-party listings for that project confirm.

Project Where Note

• Jirian New Zayed New Sheikh Zayed With Mountain View and Palm Hills
• Jirian Nile Islands West Cairo Villas on islands, inside Jirian
• Zomra East New Cairo Residential, Fifth Settlement

Two years old, and what that actually means

Nations of Sky was founded in 2024. It has not handed over a completed project under its own name. There are no finished buildings of theirs to walk through, no owners to ask how the handover went, no service charge history, nothing. For a purchase that completes in 2028, that is the real risk in this deal, and it is bigger than anything in the price list.

Say it plainly to prospects, because they will find out anyway and they will trust the page more for having raised it.

What genuinely cuts against it is Jirian. Mountain View has been building since 1989. Palm Hills has more than thirty-five projects. Companies that size run proper diligence on land title, funding and partner capability before they put their names on a joint development, because a failure there damages their own portfolios far more than it damages a newcomer’s. The partnership is third-party validation that Nations of Sky has the land and the money to be in the room.

It is not a delivery record and shouldn’t be sold as one. But most developers founded in 2024 cannot show you anything comparable.

So the diligence here is not optional. Find out who the main contractor is and what they have delivered, because on a two-year build their record may matter more than the developer’s. Find out who the design and structural consultants are. Go to the Jirian site in New Sheikh Zayed, look at the progress, and confirm Nations of Sky’s role is what the brochure says. Ask where Zomra East has got to, and whether its buyers are content. Check ORB’s own construction with your own eyes. Ask how the project is financed and whether buyer payments sit in an escrow or project account. Insist on milestone-linked instalments. And read the delay penalty clause properly rather than filing it.

None of that is an argument against buying. It is what you do when a developer is two years old, and a buyer who does it is in a far better position than one who reads the brochure and signs.

How ORB Towers compares

Against Waterway West, a few minutes away on El Nozha Street, the contrast is sharp and useful. That project runs 47 feddans at 15% residential coverage, prices apartments at a flat EGP 110,000 a metre, delivers in 2030, and comes from a developer founded in 2010 that operates its own commercial destinations. ORB is denser on 15 feddans, prices at EGP 85,000 a metre, and hands over in 2028. Cheaper and sooner, from a company two years old. That is the trade in one sentence: price and timing against track record and space.

Against AEON Towers next door, go and compare them in person. Same corridor, same retail anchor, and AEON comes from Marakez, who also built Mall of Arabia. Adjacency makes it the cleanest comparison available and it will take an hour.

Against Administrative Capital towers, the Capital offers similar rates per metre but is still filling up. Sheikh Zayed is populated and trading now. Demand here exists rather than being projected.

On hospitality, no fair comparison is possible until someone tells you who runs the hotel.

Who it suits

Buyers who want into this corridor at a low entry, at EGP 4.25 million for a finished studio. Letting investors, where the studio is the strongest product in a mature area. Anyone wanting delivery sooner than the market average. Gulf buyers needing a finished, managed unit twenty minutes from Sphinx. Families, who should be in the mid-rise buildings rather than the towers.

Look elsewhere if you need an established delivery record, want low density, want a house rather than an apartment, need somewhere to live before 2028, or are relying on a quoted hospitality yield.

The bottom line

ORB Towers is 15 feddans on Gamal Abdel Nasser Axis, three minutes from Mall of Arabia, fifteen from the Grand Egyptian Museum, twenty from Sphinx Airport. Two 110-metre towers hold over 500 mixed units; seven mid-rise buildings hold 289 finished apartments; roughly 80% of the plan is open space, achieved by building upward.

Units run 50 sqm to 235 sqm at a flat EGP 85,000 a metre, from EGP 4.25 million. Pay 5% plus 5% over eight years, or the same deposit over ten at 6% more. Handover from mid-2028, finished.

What I like about it: a location that already works, a flat rate that removes guesswork between sizes, a two-year horizon rather than five, and a hospitality catchment that makes sense on the map.

What I would not gloss over: Nations of Sky is two years old with nothing handed over. The Mountain View and Palm Hills partnership says the company has land and funding. It says nothing about whether your lift lobby will be finished properly.

Eight things before you sign.

1. Settle the price contradictions. Why the 210 sqm costs more than the 220, and what the EGP 5,900,000 entry figure refers to.
2. Confirm which plans are open on your unit, with both schedules in writing.
3. Choose between the mid-rise buildings and the towers deliberately.
4. If it is a branded residence, get operator, fees, letting rights, revenue split and occupancy caps in the contract.
5. Ask for the approved building ratio and total built-up area.
6. Ask for the projected service charge per square metre.
7. Visit the Jirian and ORB sites, and name the contractor and consultants.
8. Get your delivery date, the delay penalty, and milestone-linked instalments.