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Three prime properties on auction 7 December

Tenants demand wider area to sell as SA's 22-year-low interest rates spur shopping frenzy

Property group says it has enough UK retail developments to keep it busy for a good deal of the next 10 years

The sector offers good value relative to cash or bonds, writes Chris Needham

Institutional investors were increasingly attracted to the high-yield stable returns offered by property.

But an improving US growth rate could easily see an outflow of capital from the South African market

Analysts believe companies have been given impetus by the easing of exchange control regulations.

South Africa, along with Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco and Tunisia, accounted for 60 percent of all direct investment inflows into Africa from 1997 to 2001, a draft World Economic Forum (WEF) report had shown.

THE surge in UK property giant Liberty International’s share price (both in SA and the UK) since the beginning of May has caught the market by surprise, especially as latest indications are that the UK spending boom is slowing.