THE local commercial fixed property and listed property sectors are not benefiting from the inflows of foreign direct investment to SA, says Angelique de Rauville, MD of Investec Listed Property Investmen...
International trends on utilising land for production by farmers are having an impact on South Africa. Even the government is having a change of heart with regard to land affairs.
The development of a R59 million shopping centre, co-owned by SA Retail Properties Ltd and Vukile Property Fund, is nearing completion on a site in Kings Road, Pinetown. “Pine Walk Centre extends the SA Retail-Vukile partner...
THE Beach Hotel on Durban’s Marine Parade will be one of the buildings coming under the hammer at two multiple-property auctions to be held by Aucor in Johannesburg and Durban next week. The Beach...
The Forum, an exciting new sectional title office development comprising a series of office buildings set around an open plaza, is to be built on a prime site at Century City by Rabie Property Group at a cost of R150m.
FACTORS such as globalisation, the move towards real estate investment trusts and the 2010 Soccer World Cup will be discussed at the fourth annual property investment conferen...
JAVA Capital, an independent corporate finance adviser, has been appointed by the Property Loan Stock Association to “manage the process” that is intended to result in a r...
CALULO Property Fund has major expansion plans, with the firm targeting a market capitalisation of R1bn over the next year, says new MD Cheryl Wendelken. <...
THERE is definitely scope for unlisted real estate investment trusts (Reits) in the South African institutional pension fund landscape, says Colin Young, head of asset managem...
IF THE South African economy continues to grow at projected levels, the office component of Century City could increase to about 600000m² by 2012, making it the second-larges...
Two Gauteng landmarks, the Rosebank Hotel in Joburg, and the Mount Grace Country House and Spa, in Magaliesberg, were snapped up last month in a R1-billion buying spree by a listed property fund.
The hotels are among 16 establishments bought by ...
IN excess of 58% of Spearhead's unit-holders voted in favour of a takeover offer from Redefine Income Fund at the Spearhead Special Meeting called yesterday. The motion was carried with 100% of those voting in favour of the ta...
THE Old Mutual Property Group says its Gateway Theatre of Shopping in Umhlanga, Durban, has become the first retail complex in Africa to win a top marketing award from the Int...
WITH work having started on the Gautrain project, Rosebank property owners Redefine Income Fund and Standard Bank Property Finance and Advisory Services are planning a rejuvenation project for the Ro...
FUSION Outsourcing Services, part of the Budget Group of Companies is to open a new building in Century City, Cape Town; further proof of the growing company’s commitment to the South African BPO ind...
REGULARLY CBN reports on the great successes Hyprop is enjoying with their 87% investment in Canal Walk, and in the half year to June the story is much the same.
Oct 19, 2006: Shoppers Seek Fresh Mall Experience
If retailers and property owners want to continue to attract shoppers, they need to offer an alternative to the air-conditioned concrete boxes that are still mushrooming on South Africa's retail landscape. This sentiment was echoed...
THERE was a training crisis in the construction industry, with 88% of engineering graduates dropping out and a near halt in artisan training, a recruitment specialist said yesterday. SA’s short-term need for engineers and technicians would not be met...
The R4bn Bridge City shopping and residential centre development in KwaMashu, a black residential area in eThekwini, “has taken years” to get off the ground, but the first contract would be awarded next month and the project was ready to go ahead, ...
FALLING vacancy levels and rising rentals in desirable commercial nodes have recently focused attention on office expenses in South Africa. Unfortunately, those subject to rising costs don’t know the half of it!
One of the tough questions being asked at the IPD/SAPOA Property Investment Conference later this month is how much impact the 2010 World Cup will have on the South African commercial and industrial property market over the next four years?
Nigerian, which has a less sophisticated property and legal system than SA, is at least a year ahead in introducing a real estate investment trust (REIT) structure to the market.
Mike Flax, CEO of listed property loan stock company Spearhead P...
Provogue (India) Limited has announced the signing of a joint venture agreement with UK and South African-listed property group Liberty International PLC (LBT) in order to develop and manage prime regional shopping centres for the growing organised ret...
DISCERNING buyers in Johannesburg and Cape Town were able to pick up several bargains at the Auction Alliance multiple property auction held in Waverley, Johannesburg, on Tuesday, in which Cape Town buyers were able to par...
The ten-year-old Athlone Park Shopping Centre in Umbogintwini is being upgraded and modernised with a 200 percent increase in current lettable space, almost tripling the current 11 line shops to 32 and enlargement of the existing anchor ...
During the year ending June 30, 2006, the centre hosted 454 different events, including 35 international and 40 national conferences, 25 consumer exhibitions and 13 trade fairs.
Retail property returns are 33% for the Investment Property Databank (IPD) in 2005, but should investors be worried with so many shopping centres going up everywhere? FNB property strategist John Loos is on the line
