The Strip [ Commercial ]

Choose a unit here around a concept with a named customer. We look at when that customer arrives, where their car stops, how the frontage reads at driving speed, and whether the businesses either side send you trade or take it.

Operators have technical demands a plan never shows. Extraction, power, servicing, delivery access and outdoor seating decide whether a restaurant can open at all, while a service business will trade the seating for easy parking and a short visit. We settle those requirements and the licensing before comparing prices, so nobody buys a beautiful position that cannot carry the business.

The contract deserves the same attention as the shop. Fit-out rent-free periods, escalation, signage rights, maintenance and exit terms can move a return further than the headline rent does. We read the unit and the likely lease together before recommending anything.

The Strip's success is what pushed SODIC to repeat the idea, and The Strip 2 followed as its extension within SODIC West. Improvements to the thermal performance of its buildings were introduced later.

That passing trade is what we count with you when valuing any unit here.

• Inside SODIC West, Sheikh Zayed
• On the Cairo–Alexandria desert road
• Serves Beverly Hills, Allegria, Westown and Forty West
• The Strip 2, the adjoining extension

The project’s name describes its structure: a retail strip running lengthwise rather than an enclosed block. That format depends on road frontage more than on total area — a shop here is valued by the length of its frontage and the traffic passing it.

The Strip is commercial stock that may be let or trading, so a public grid of areas and prices would hide the variables that matter. Each individual unit is read by frontage, fit-out, permitted trade and contract form. Define the activity first, and the relevant open spaces can then be priced on comparable terms.

A shop's value here is set by the length of its frontage, by who trades next to it and by the parking movement in front of it, before its area comes into it. Before any commitment we go through four items on the unit itself: the frontage length, the clear height, the activity permitted inside it, and the number of parking spaces that serve it.

• Open-front retail shops
• Bank branches
• Restaurants and cafés
• Car showrooms and their service workshops
• Parking for 700 cars
• The adjoining Strip 2 extension