A Cape Town commercial project has met critical mid-year deadlines relating to the upgrading of the R310 highway, bulk infrastructure and the construction of the buildings themselves.
"We are very pleased to announce that the tender proces...
A MANUFACTURING recession, which some economists have said is a possibility, may have a detrimental effect on industrial property and cause vacancies to increase.
But property pundits say industrial property, which has been the top-performing ...
An independent hospitality, tourism and real estate investment company has been created and is based in Geneva, Switzerland, with regional offices in South Africa and Egypt.
Sovereign Hospitality Holdings has been launched to expand through str...
Significant risks have been detected for the commercial and industrial property industry contained in the draft Companies Bill 2007, particularly with regard to the Chapter 6 provisions that deal with business rescue.
The Competition Commission approved a deal whereby the shareholders of a property auction company have sold a 31% stake in the business to financial services group Transaction Capital.
The deal, which values the company at R250m, will see the ...
Land redistribution "should not just be an issue of chasing the percentage", according to Gwede Mantashe, the secretary general of the ANC. He said on Wednesday that the party should not just say we want 30% of the arable land to be distributed ...
A new 450 hectare West Coast estate has made environmental sustainability its core focus.
The Langebaan Country Estate falls within the West Coast Biosphere Reserve, an international designation awarded by UNESCO to promote a balanced relation...
South African construction material manufacturer AfriSam – formerly Holcim South Africa – on Friday welcomed the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), a representative of the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), as one of its shareholders ...
Construction group Murray & Roberts (MUR) said on Friday that fully diluted headline earnings per share for the full year to June 30 is expected to increase between 60% and 70% over the comparative result for the previous financial year.
Hermans & Roman Property Solutions, the black owned property management company with more than R14 billion under management, is rapidly expanding with the appointment of key staff.
Kevin Roman, Group Chief Executive Officer, believes that ...
Following the purchase of Spearhead Property Holdings by Redefine Income Fund, part of the Madison Property Fund Managers stable, a property development and leasing division was created under the leadership of Mike Flax. As Executive Director of ...
Boosted mainly by two joint venture road contracts totalling R3,5bn announced in May, construction firm Group Five (GRF) expects annual fully diluted headline earnings per share (EPS) to rise as much as 70% to 396 cents per share, it said on Friday. ...
In a world arena where transparency is increasingly valued, the SA commercial property sector now holds the 21st position in the Jones Lang La-Selle Transparency Index for 2008.
The index, which is published every second year, includes developi...
In what will be widely interpreted as a slap in the face for the termagant agriculture minister, Lulama Xingwana, President Thabo Mbeki has taken away from her the administrative responsibility for the strife-torn and rapidly failing Land Bank, and given ...
“DEMAND for industrial-zoned properties is fuelled by developers and investors who are competing to satisfy growing tenant demand,” says William Amerseder of Alliance Group.
On July 23 Alliance Group will take to auction a property...
Holders of listed property company shares have watched in horror as prices have plummet month after month since the latter part of 2007. Not so long ago, this sector was something of a stock market darling, producing marvellous returns for investo...
Some retail tenants are struggling to meet their contractual rental obligations due to increasing pressure in the retail industry caused by tight economic conditions.
However, owners of shopping centres who accommodate tenants during this very ...
An index of builders' confidence dropped further in the second quarter (Q2) of 2008, reflecting weakening demand for new houses in the face of a tight interest rate environment.
Released on Tuesday, the FNB Building Confidence Index declin...
