Sunday, June 22, 2008

subsidize 24 million villa

I attended a meeting last week with a huge real estate company marketing represntative, it was something related to my work

the meeting lasts all day long
from 10.30 am to 5 pm
i went home with a terrible headache and wondering where am i exactly
all the way home i was telling myself (mohamed sobhy joke: morataby bekafiny we batbara3 belba2y lesadad dayon masr)
i know people differ in their extent of wealth
and in egypt lives couple of the most richest men on earth
and most of people can live (just live) in egypt in an above poverty (just above poverty) standard

BUT
and it's huge but
this statment was valid till 6 months ago
first i'll recall what i ve heared:
DAMAC company is making new projects in egypt to sell different real estate properties
- in a specific project (hyde park in cairo) the villa price is increasing weekly by 2%
- they didn't start digging yet, and they sold about 1000 villas
- they have a long waiting list for people who are waiting the next lot of villas to buy it
- the buyer are egyptians
- some villas are 24.000.000 LE
check what's written on the website



Spread across 4 million square meters, Hyde Park is the most exclusive villa development with Detached and Attached Villas nestled with a 1 million square meter landscaped park, the biggest private park in Egypt. Designed to suit multi-cultural tastes, the villa designs range from the Neo-Classical, Italian-Country to California-Spanish styles. Set atop beautiful vistas and surrounded by Egypt's natural beauty, your home will be amidst striking landscapes and beautiful water features. A gated community with several entrances, 24-hour security and controlled entry, living here is designed to give you total peace of mind and privacy.


NOW
it's totally healthy for the economic environement to have various standards of everything
low cost, average cost and high cost of every good
so similar projects are certainly required
what i'm wondering about is not the good, it's the buyer
if we put in mind that in the past 6 months, the economy were ruined by the gas and other goods high price increasing
AND more
the dollar interset is down to less then half
so any rich man who has 1 million dollars in the bank, he used to get more the 4% interest
meaning: 10000000*.04/12 =3.333$ monthly
but now the intersest is alomst 2%
so this means he now get 1.666$ monthly
and what makes egyptian economy a genuis record candidate is that
the dollar exchanging price is decreasing and the deposit interst tooo
it's an economical miracle because the interest rate should get up when the currency value get down and viseversa
that's not happening
so who owned 1000000$ 2 years ago he had 1000000*(5.7 to 7) LE and monthly income about 3.333$
but now he have 1000000 * (5.3 to 5.5) LE and monthly income about 1.666$
again people are loosing their wealth, value of their stocks
so who buys these A+++ real estate properties???????????????????
another question:
how many are they? projects like this are expanding more and more
now we have A+, A, B+, B standard real estate projects
it's good and healthy economically
but my question is? if the dollar deposit lost 50% of it's value, and the inflation is up by more then 30%
where all that money come from? and how ?
this makes me get to the next step
an important percentage of the egyptian people are wealthy enough to pay 2 to 24 million to buy a house
and they aren't counting on their money to live
but they share the governmental subsidize with us (the rest poor people)
if anyone from whom can afford even 2 million dollar house isn't using his share of subsidized bread, gas, .. etc
the rest who really need it will find it
the current economical situation is wrong
it's like a father who have 10 kids and one bread
and because he's a father he should give a fair share to every child so every child took 1/10 of a bread or a small bit
while 5 of his children have already eaten before and don't need more
and yet this creates another problem: who exactly needs the subsidize and who don't?
and what if someone today is declared rich and don't need a subsidize, and then another price increasing wave happens, will he be able to live without subsidize?
i believe in such communities (where a villa is worth 24 million ) no gas, water, electricity subsidize should apply, i mean people in these community should pay for electricity a bit higher then people in abies or nady elsaid (ابيس / نادى الصيد)

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