The practical answer
Compare the asking price with sufficiently similar properties and distinguish verified completed transactions from advertised offers. Record dates, area definitions, payment terms and inclusions. Where achieved evidence is unavailable, label that gap openly. A buyer's comparison can inform your offer; a formal valuation requires an appropriately qualified professional.
Identify the status of every price
A listing price expresses an offer to the market. A reservation indicates a step in a transaction, with conditions still relevant. A completed sale is a different event again. Ask what each comparison actually represents, when it was recorded and how its status was established. Several websites showing the same property do not create several independent transactions.
Begin with current discovery pages such as Veranda and Cala Sahl Hasheesh, then request a dated proposal for the specific available home. Treat that proposal as asking-price information until a different status is substantiated. Avoid describing a withdrawn advert as a confirmed sale or assuming that a crossed-out price was ever achieved.
Use a simple evidence label
For your own comparison sheet, use three practical labels: verified transaction, documented asking offer and unverified indication. These are buyer organisation labels, not an official valuation grading system. Include a separate note describing how closely each property matches yours, because a verified but very different sale can still be a poor comparison.
RICS' consumer explanation of comparable evidence highlights the importance of recent, verifiable and similar evidence. Ask whether transaction details can be substantiated without exposing another buyer's personal data. If the answer is no, retain the information as an indication with a clear limitation. A confident verbal statement should not silently acquire the weight of documentary evidence.
Compare the home you would actually receive
Start with the same project or a closely matched setting where possible, then compare completion status, floor, outlook, usable layout, condition and included spaces. Two homes with the same bedroom count can serve different needs. A shaded terrace, privacy from neighbouring balconies or a comfortable route to shared facilities may affect your preference even when the advertised areas match.
Request the basis of each stated area before calculating price per sqm. Keep terrace or garden areas visible rather than blending them into a single unexplained total. Add contract and usage differences for your advisers to review. The purpose is to identify meaningful differences, not to manufacture a precise adjustment for every feature without supporting evidence.
Put prices on the same payment basis
A cash proposal and a staged-payment proposal describe different commitments, even if both are displayed as a single price. Record what is payable now, what falls due later, which charges are excluded and what is included in the property specification. Preserve the dated original currency record and use one clearly stated conversion basis if your comparison is presented in EUR.
For an illustration, compare a documented completed sale with a current asking offer for a similar home. Record the completed sale as achieved evidence and keep the live offer labelled as an asking price. Then identify differences in date, payment timing and included items. An asking offer does not become a completed-sale comparable because its specification looks similar. Leave unsupported adjustments visible rather than inventing a standard negotiation discount.
Keep weak evidence from becoming false precision
When relevant completed transactions are unavailable, do not average a handful of advertisements and call the result market value. Check whether the listings are current, duplicated or materially different. Explain what the sample can show: the advertised alternatives available to you, subject to confirmation. It cannot, by itself, establish what buyers have paid.
The RICS comparable-evidence professional standard addresses evidence sources and their relative importance. If the decision warrants a formal valuation, ask a suitably qualified valuer with relevant local competence about scope, inspection, assumptions and limitations. A report should be useful because of its evidence and analysis, not simply because it supplies a precise number.
Turn the comparison into a reasoned offer
Write a short decision note: the property you prefer, the strongest comparisons, the differences you accept and the information you still need. Keep personal preference separate from factual claims. You may willingly pay more for a layout that suits long stays, but that does not establish a future resale premium or guaranteed rental performance.
Use the project collection to keep realistic alternatives in view. Then request a comparison discussion with Hurghadians Property, sharing your shortlisted homes and the basis on which you want them compared. Ask for a current written proposal and supporting explanations. That creates a more productive negotiation than requesting a discount with no reference to the property or terms.
Your buyer checklist
- Label each number as a completed transaction, asking offer or unverified indication.
- Record the evidence date and remove duplicate listings from the sample.
- Compare relevant condition, outlook, layout and completion differences.
- Confirm area definitions before using a price-per-sqm comparison.
- Align payment timing, currency basis, inclusions and additional charges.
- State missing evidence and commission a suitable valuation when needed.
Bring your priorities to the next viewing
Use the same questions for every shortlisted property. Ask for the current information that applies to your chosen home, then bring the answers together before deciding.