Competing against real estate companies from around the country, this is the 14th year that Pam Golding Properties has received the prestigious 5-Star award for ‘Best Real Estate Agency in South Africa’ (over 20 offices) in the world-renowned International Property Awards.

A silver lining amongst the many dark clouds dominating South Africa’s current economy is, thanks to recent interest rate cuts, commercial real estate - especially purpose-built quality logistics assets supporting the ongoing e-commerce boom in the country.

By late-2019, all 3 major provinces had seen the rental payment performance of their Commercial Property tenant population slide mildly from highs reached a few years prior.

Tradehold’s South African business, the Collins Group, delivered outstanding results in the six months to end August, achieving a net profit of £3.3m.

As the country emerges from COVID-19-related lockdowns, the hard lockdown having been in April and May 2020, high frequency data points to quite a lengthy road back to “full” recovery for the economy.

If there is one thing property investors in Africa can be certain of during the Covid-19 pandemic, it is that nothing is 100% certain.

Spear REIT Limited (SEA:SJ), the only regionally focused REIT on the JSE with exposure to high quality Western Cape-only assets, disclosed its group performance under the national lockdown in a pre-close investor presentation on Friday 28 August 2020.

Building the way forward in South Africa’s commercial property market.

Business parks are coming into their own as a viable asset class in commercial real estate, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Previously owned by the Bank of Mozambique and abandoned, Cape York had been hijacked and fraudulently sold, with several “owners” allowing it to become severely overcrowded and collecting rent illegally.