A R200m investment into the South African contact centre industry has paid off handsomely for UK telecommunications provider The Carphone Warehouse, whose local operation The Phone House has exceeded its three-month targets ju...
Pretoria - One of South Africa's biggest companies, engineering company, Bigen Africa, today announced the relocation of its head office to a new building at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria.
Growthpoint Properties Limited, South Africa’s largest JSE-listed property holding and investment company with property assets exceeding R13,5 billion, today exceeded expectations when successfully accessing a further R969 m...
Growthpoint Properties, the largest listed property company on the JSE, said on Sunday that it had acquired international computer components company Rectron's Gauteng head office and Durban office buildings for altogether R95...
The Lagos Palms, the first world-class shopping centre in Nigeria, opened in February this year amidst great excitement and anticipation. Johannesburg based Bentel Associates International (BAI), internationally recognis...
An R83 million expansion is under way at Phumelela Park, an Old Mutual industrial park at Montague Gardens, in response to rising demand for large industrial space in greater Cape Town.
LISTED property stocks have been among the worst performing assets since the trouble started in global markets on May 11 this year. The four most valuable listed property stocks on the JSE have each fallen by more than 20% dur...
THE value of AECI’s property portfolio could well be higher than the market currently gives it. The hidden property asset provides a solid underpin to the share price.
A NEW R28m sectional title office development is being planned for one of the last development sites in the Illovo Boulevard precinct at 8 Melville Road.
LOW office vacancies, increasing demand for space and the prospect of office rentals rising later this year all suggest that there might be a flood of new office devel...
MIXED-use developments such as Melrose Arch in Johannesburg can take pressure off road infrastructure, provided they are linked to rapid transport systems, says Melrose Arch Devel...
Commercial property developers have snapped up the second phase of stands at the new Tijger Vallei Office Park near Silver Lakes east of Pretoria and are to start work soon on creating more than 45 modern office units for leas...
Claremont’s status as the dominant retail destination in Cape Town’s southern suburbs is set for a further boost through a R104 million refurbishment of The Link Shopping Centre by Old Mutual Property Group.
WITH the 2010 World Cup expected to boost demand for tourism properties and generally strong growth in the South African tourism market, a new hotel and leisure property broking company has been launched.
SOWETO tycoon Richard Maponya should be retired, now that he is hitting 80 - but his schedule is hectic as the R500m Maponya Mall changes the township landscape.
IMPROVON, one of the top industrial property developers in the country, plans to list its own industrial property fund containing properties worth R1,1bn on the JSE’s main board...
SOUTH AFRICA'S property service providers are experiencing increasing demand for their management skills overseas, with large players such as Gensec, Old Mutual Properties, Broll and Pace Property Group spreading their wings i...
INDUSTRIAL property will be the star performer in the commercial property sector this year and next, says First National Bank property strategist John Loos.
Eurocape, the developers of the R1-billion Mandela Rhodes Place (MRP), has announced a partnership with Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL) to develop Cape Town’s newest addition in luxury hotel accommodation. The five-st...
Today’s 0,5% rise in interest rates has signalled a change to property investment strategies and a “wake-up call” to those who believe things can just keep getting better, says commercial investment property experts, Bal...
Baker Street Properties has announced the launch of an exciting new mixed-use business park called The Epic, located in Berkley Road, N’dabeni close to the M5 and bordering Pinelands.
THE ASLA Group, perhaps best known as provider of low-cost housing (about which more later), is also setting the tone for prestigious developments throughout the West...
The listed property sector has been the best performing asset for six of the last seven years but this kind of performance only happens a few times in a lifetime.
“This is about as good as it gets,” says Leon Allis...
