Emira Property Fund continues to advance its conservative approach to funding, which underpins its agile approach to market opportunities.

Growthpoint Properties and Investec Asset Management, in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), have announced the commencement of operations of their pan-African real estate investment business, Growthpoint Investec African Properties (GIAP), which is managed by Growthpoint Investec African Property Management.  

Liberty Two Degrees successfully listed on the Main Board of the JSE, in the “Diversified REITs” sector, earlier this morning under the abbreviated name: “Liberty2D”, [JSE code: L2D] in a landmark listing for the Liberty Group.

While tangible improvements in transparency are being made, Sub-Saharan Africa is still some distance from competing equally with its counterparts in the EMEA region and sizeable efforts are required to close the gap with other global regions, according to JLL and LaSalle Investment Management’s 2016 Global Real Estate Transparency Index (GRETI) Sub-Saharan Africa focus.

Balwin Properties Limited, South Africa’s largest homebuilder focusing on large scale sectional-title residential estates in high-growth, high-density metropolitan nodes in South Africa’s major cities, today announced its intention to list on the main board of the JSE Limited, subject to requisite approvals (the “Listing”).

The SA Listed Property Index (J253) recorded a total return of + 3.71% in April 2011

SA listed property had highest total return of four asset classes for April.

The SA Listed Property Index (J253) recorded a total return of 10.70% in November 2008. The Property Loan Stock Index (J256) and Property Unit Trust Index (J255) recorded returns of 11.31% and 8.83% respectively over the same period

The SA property index, which represents property unit trusts and property loan stock companies on the JSE Securities Exchange, produced a negative return in January of minus 0.74 percent