Hands-on management, long-term commitment could deliver better yields than in northern suburbs.

Called the Residential Property Owners Association (Respoa) it will soon start lobbying government to broaden the house market and reduce its cost, says chairman Neville Schaefer, chief executive of Trafalgar.

The owner of a redundant Germiston parking garage is converting it into a block of flats.

Flat  rentals have maintained an upward trend in the past few years due to an insufficient supply of new rental stock, says the latest report of property services and consulting company Rode.

Inner-city housing is being snapped up and cleaned up While suburbia is steadily being transformed into a morass of ill-planned, overcrowded business nodes, Johannesburg's inner city is winning a war to create proper middle- and working-class housing, underpinned by a social housing programme.