Fortress continues to deliver on its strategy to exit office market.

Office occupancies in Cape Town and Durban could well be seeing an upswing – welcome news in markets that have suffered from rising vacancies in the wake of corporate downsizing and restructuring in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Covid-19 lockdown didn’t change the direction of the rising long-term Work from Home (WFH) trend.

The StatsSA November 2021 release of non-residential building plans pointed to early signs of weakening to come for the Commercial Property Building Sector in the run up to 2022.

The unrest and looting that took place in many parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in July this year is little more than old news to many South Africans.

Serviced office space provider The Business Exchange (TBE) has extended operations and is opening its first Cape Town location on 1 October 2021. 

With its modern, flexible workspaces and landscaped courtyard areas, the newly completed, Grade A ‘Garden City Business Park’ in central Nairobi, Kenya, is attracting large multinational companies, including the likes of East African Breweries which is a subsidiary of Diageo, one of the world’s largest producers of spirits and beer, says Kunaal Samani, MD of Pam Golding Properties Kenya.

Brokers continue to see all 3 major commercial property buying/selling markets as substantially oversupplied, but the perception is that the Industrial Property Market’s oversupply is the least significant.

Green certified offices more defensive in pandemic property market.

Irongate Group  (IAP or the Fund) has today released its financial results for the year ended 31 March 2021, its first since acquiring the management rights from Investec Group and becoming an internally managed REIT.