Growthpoint Properties Limited announced a 6.1% growth in distributions, to 139,0 cents per linked unit, for the financial year ended 30 June 2012, continuing its record of delivering distribution growth to its investors

The PLSA reports that for the last 12 months to the end of February 2012, SA Listed Property recorded the highest total return of any asset class at 21.75%

There are many facets that have to be considered and balanced when being the biggest internally managed listed fund in SA

The AMU Trust, Growthpoint Properties Limited's BEE shareholder has refinanced debt raised in 2005 to fund the acquisition of 100 million Growthpoint Properties linked units.

The JSE's largest property company Growthpoint is battling to digest the V&A Waterfront, which it swallowed in June as part of South Africa's biggest-ever property deal

Longer leases and a livelier market down under are attractive to SA investors

Acccording to the Property Loan Stock Association of SA (PLSA), investors in property funds over the past three to five years picked winners

Listed property comfortably continues to outpace inflation and the JSE, but one risk factor lies in rising bond yields.

Listed property may well be beating general equities in the total return stakes for the year to date, but the August reporting season reveals a widening performance gap among the JSE’s 20-odd property counters.

Growthpoint Properties Limited delivered total return growth of 26.4% with growth of 8.1% in distributions to its investors for the financial year ended 30 June 2011