MEA Class A Atlas coverage includes 13 Tier 1 cities and 66 Class A submarkets.

  • Class A office across the Middle East and Africa.
  • 13 Tier 1 cities covered in MEA.
  • Total Class A submarkets in MEA: 66.
  • Pricing convention: Local currency per sqft or sqm per year.

MEA Class A office overview

Class A office across the Middle East and Africa.

TL;DR

  • Class A office across the Middle East and Africa.
  • 13 Tier 1 cities covered in MEA.
  • Total Class A submarkets in MEA: 66.
  • Pricing convention: Local currency per sqft or sqm per year.

Cities in MEA, by country

BH

  • Manama — Gulf financial services hub with deep Islamic banking and fintech tenancy.

EG

  • Cairo — MENA's largest Class A market with the New Administrative Capital reshaping the post-2025 trophy tier.

Israel

  • Tel Aviv — Startup nation capital with deep tech, defense, and venture-backed tenancy.

Kenya

  • Nairobi — East Africa's gateway with deep tech, NGO, and pan-African HQ tenancy.

KW

  • Kuwait City — Gulf banking and energy capital with constrained Class A inventory.

MA

  • Casablanca — North Africa's banking and tech hub with deep Francophone shared-services tenancy.

Nigeria

  • Lagos — West Africa's commercial capital with deep banking, oil, and tech tenancy.

Qatar

  • Doha — Qatar's gas-anchored gateway with deep LNG and government tenancy.

Saudi Arabia

  • Riyadh — Saudi Arabia's capital with deep Vision 2030 corporate HQ relocation tenancy.

South Africa

  • Johannesburg — South Africa's commercial capital with deep mining, banking, and pan-African HQ tenancy.
  • Cape Town — South Africa's tech, tourism, and BPO capital with deep VC-backed startup tenancy.

United Arab Emirates

  • Dubai — The fastest-growing premium office market in EMEA.
  • Abu Dhabi — UAE's federal capital with deep oil, sovereign wealth, and AI tenancy.

MEA guides

Browse the full long-form guides library — region-specific guides for MEA are in the editorial pipeline.

Currency & rent normalization

Local convention in MEA: Local currency per sqft or sqm per year. Local currencies in active institutional use: AED / SAR / QAR / ILS / ZAR. Lease regime: Gulf: 1–3 year leases, often paid in 1–4 cheques annually. SA/IL: longer terms with annual reviews. Class A Atlas normalizes all city-level rent benchmarks to USD per sqft per year using a trailing 90-day FX average so cross-region comparisons stay apples-to-apples; per-city pages show both the local quotation and the normalized USD figure.

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