Don't bet your shirt on speedy sector profits.

Conventional wisdom suggests that with the rand improving strongly against the world’s major currencies, and with inflation and interest rates expected to head back down from their current highs, one of the best places to look for good investments would be on the listed property market. But the experts warn otherwise, saying that while property shares are expected to rerate next year, other equity investments will do better.

Survey cites oversupply, lower income

The list of property companies which have reported muted earnings growth is getting longer, indicating that the listed property sector of the JSE Securities Exchange SA is heading for trouble.

Pundits value openness and disclosure above cash flow.

But new legislation allowing PUT’s to gear could help boost the sector’s attractiveness

But listed sector is starting to offer good buying opportunities for investors

But some PUT’s and PLS’s are starting to look cheap.

Flurry of new listings boasting high-risk yields of more than 18% The JSE's property loan stock (PLS) sector is expanding fast and, for the first time, investors have a real choice between quality yields of 11% or high risk at more than 18%. They can also choose between office, retail and industrial subsectors.

A merger of Grayvest and Grayprop could result in a listed property fund with a market capitalisation of R2,2-billion, making it the JSE Securities Exchange SA's (JSE's) second-largest, following Liberty International.