Smaller houses are showing the strongest growth this according to the latest Rode's Report on the SA Property Market.

The annual Real Estate Investor Conference will be jointly hosted by Rode and REIM this year and will take place in September in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.

The key drivers of house prices and residential rentals are showing no vigour‚ according to the latest Rode's Report on the SA Property Market.

A weakening demand for office space as well as sluggish growth in market rentals are on the cards, says Erwin Rode, professional property valuer and property economist at Rode & Associates.

’Tis not yet the season for property investors to be jolly, as property fundamentals continue to stutter. This is the prognosis contained in the latest issue of Rode’s Report on the S.A. Property Market.

Set against the backdrop of moderate economic activity and floundering business confidence, non-residential property fundamentals continue to struggle. This is according to property economist Erwin Rode in the latest issue of Rode’s Report on the S.A. Property Market.

Discouraging for the office demand and vacancy-rate outlook is the deceleration in output produced by the services sector GDP in the first quarter of the year

It seems that the underrated property sector is set for big things. In the past three years, you would have had a better return from property than equities just from the capital growth, which was 8,9% a year compared with 7,3% from equities.