It is easier to bring the commercial component to a residential area than the other way around

Global investors on the prowl for untapped property investment opportunities are discovering that SA is cropping up more frequently in global research as a market with serious allure.

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 Rosebank Arena precinct, which could be worth up to R450m.

SA enters decade of massive property development, but has anybody planned beyond five years?

SOARING building costs will probably prevent an oversupply of new office developments, and in turn create a positive office rental market in the short to medium term.

Eastern Cape is the fastest growing province in SA in terms of house price increases for the third quarter of this year, compared with the corresponding period last year.

Investment Property Databank (IPD) and commercial property association Sapoa will host a property investment conference at Sandton Sun on November 3 and 4.

Much is changing on the South African Real estate scene.  Traditional institutional investors are listing major portions of asset portfolios and large owners are divesting in certain market segments and specialist funds and opportunistic investors are moving into these investments with evident success.  How sustainable are these trends?

Developers are hoping to turn Johannesburg's inner centre into something that resembles Manhattan

Despite average GDP growth of 2,7% in the 10 years since 1993, close to 2m m² of new A- and B-grade office space was built in Johannesburg's northern suburbs. Even allowing for the 550 000 m² space that is vacant because of over development - and the 400 000 m² that lies abandoned by companies that fled the Johannesburg CBD for the suburbs - that is about 110 000 m² net take-up/year in the past decade.