A slowing capital growth trend, into negative territory by 2019, has been in play in recent years. The Corona Crisis is likely to add momentum to this correcting trend in 2020.

Nigeria’s economy is showing some green shoots that point to improved growth in the coming quarters but the outlook has done little to bolster investor confidence in the local retail and office market sectors.

A few months on from the May general election, a somber mood is once again settling in in the country, and one senses that there is a feeling that structural policy reforms that had been hoped for under a new presidency are not easily going to be forthcoming.

Over the past 20 years, the period 1st quarter 1999 to 1st quarter 2019, the consumer has cumulatively “outperformed the economy, assisting the Retail Property Market to outperform other major property sectors over much of this period.

May StatsSA Building Statistics – Very strong Residential Completions growth still, while on the Non-Residential side Industrial and Warehouse building activity appears to be the provider of “relative stability”

JSE-listed REIT Safari Investments RSA Limited today posted strong results for the interim period ending 30 September 2018. 

Indluplace Properties Limited, a JSE-listed REIT with a portfolio that provides affordable rental housing, today released its financial results for the year ended 30 September 2018.

JSE diversified REIT, Dipula Income Fund (Dipula), today announced continued distributable income growth of 11.5% for the six months to February 2018. 

Real estate consulting firm, JLL, has released its South African Q3 2017 market reports for the office markets in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town; the industrial markets in Johannesburg and Durban; and an outline of the South African retail market.

Niched lower LSM retail property Real Estate Investment Trust ("REIT") Fairvest Property Holdings Limited ("Fairvest"), today announced a total distribution for the financial year to 30 June 2014 of 13.72 cents per linked unit.