Unchanged repo rate unlikely to stall housing market momentum
Unchanged repo rate unlikely to stall housing market momentum.
Navigating Rental Increases: A Guide for Commercial Property Tenants in South Africa
Navigating Rental Increases: A Guide for Commercial Property Tenants in South Africa.
Residential Rental Market still pressured by weak economy and low interest rates, the result being further slowing in CPI Rental inflation in the September CPI
While the Home Buying Market is buoyant, still being driven by sharply lower interest rates this year.
Weak restaurant, take away and catering sales - tough retail property times
On a year-on-year basis, Total Restaurant, Catering and Take-Aways Retail Sales Income growth recorded 5.2% in September.
This week’s SARB interest rate decision not expected to change property market conditions meaningfully
This week’s SARB interest rate decision not expected to change property market conditions meaningfully.
Early signs of the positive national sentiment shift impacting on national house price trends
May 2018 saw the FNB House Price Index growing by a faster 4.6%, year-on-year, up from the previous month’s 3.8% in April, and from a February 2018 low of 2.8%.
The SARB MPC is expected to announce a 25 basis point reduction in its policy Repo rate on Wednesday, boosting consumer confidence and housing demand mildly
Our Firstrand expectation is for a 25 basis point interest rate cut in the SARB’s Repo Rate, when its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting concludes on Wednesday. Should this happen, it would lower the Repo Rate to 6.5%, and the Prime Lending Rate of banks to 10%.
FNB's 2 measures of Real House Prices continue the gradual "correction"
According to StatsSA CPI (Consumer Price Index) figures, residential rental inflation has been outstripping average house price inflation of late.
Compared with the pre-2008 National Housing Bubble, the Western Cape is seen as “strong”, but not “booming”
Periods of strong housing market price growth can often be a cause for concern..
The FNB House Price Index’s year-on-year growth rate strengthens further, but is still in negative real territory
In April 2017, the FNB House Price Index showed some further acceleration in year-on-year growth compared with the March rate, after having gone through a “dip” late in 2016.
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