Johannesburg’s inner city appears to be making steady progress in luring upmarket residential buyers into the fold.

Cape property entrepreneur Stuart Chait has sold his interests in trendy Jo’burg work, live, play and shop precinct Melrose Arch to co-owner Amdec in a lucrative deal.

Auction Alliance will be taking a highly desirable Melrose Arch penthouse to auction in November.

A less posh version of favourite social spaces like Melrose Arch, the 120 End Street development is within walking distance of 150 000 residents in Hillbrow, Berea, Joubert Park and the city centre.

What began as a single building residential conversion project to create important affordable housing in central Jo’burg has been skyrocketed into an unprecedented multi-building conversion of over a dozen neighbouring properties

In the first and largest development of its kind in Namibia, Windhoek will soon have its own mixed use precinct – with retail, residential, hotel, entertainment and offices all interlinking in a single vibrant location.

There are many other reasons why investors and upwardly mobile professionals should cast their eyes towards Johannesburg’s most centrally located, energetic urban village.

In its largest property development finance deal to date, Nedbank Corporate Property Finance has provided Melrose Arch Development Company with in excess of R1 billion for the development of the Melrose Arch Piazza Scheme

The City of Joburg Property Company (JPC), the property arm of the City of Johannesburg, is calling for proposals from developers for the development of Newtown’s Transport House into a multipurpose indoor-event venue.

Commercial property owners are alarmed at the increasing cost of keeping their occupants and visitors safe.