Tshakhuma Mall, an innovatively sustainable retail development in Limpopo, has won the South African Property Owners Association Property Development Award for rural and small-town development.

South Africa’s office vacancy rate improved once again to 14.2% at the end of the second quarter of 2024, down 50 basis points from the previous quarter and the eighth consecutive quarter of improving vacancy rates and a rebound in rental growth.

Though it is substantially the same as the previous versions, the Bill has some changes in the areas of definition, public participation in tariffs, and dispute resolution.

THE government’s commitment to allow private sector access to the country’s rail networks will trigger an estimated medium-term investment between R200 billion and R400 billion into locomotives plus additional spend on facilities, maintenance and land development.

MSCI South Africa Annual Property Index Report: Industrial Property Leads with 11.2% Total Return

The South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) has launched a High Court application against the City of Joburg (“the City”) interdicting it from applying the 2021 Development Contributions Policy (DCP), and declaring amongst other things that the City may not impose any condition on the granting of a land development application which requires the applicant to pay a development charge or contribution relating to services and/or infrastructure other than required by the development to which the application relates.

Growthpoint Properties (JSE: GRT) excelled at the recent SAPOA (South African Property Owners Association) Property Development Awards for Innovative Excellence 2020, taking home six sensational honours, including overall winner, overall sustainability and heritage awards, and three category wins.

With her wealth of financial and property sector experience, Joanne Solomon has been appointed as the first CEO of the SA REIT Association.

The Property Industry Group has announced an industry-wide assistance and relief package for retail tenants that are hardest hit by complying with South Africa’s lockdown in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

JSE-listed REIT Texton Property Fund announced its results for the half-year ended 31 December 2019 and expects distributable earnings to be in line with guidance for the full year.