While the Home Buying Market is buoyant, still being driven by sharply lower interest rates this year.

Spear REIT Limited (SEA:SJ), the only regionally specialised Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) listed on the JSE, reported its interim financial results today.

JSE REIT Stor-Age, South Africa’s leading and largest self storage property fund.

Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announced today that a Hyatt affiliate has entered into a management agreement with South African real estate company, Millat Properties, for the first Hyatt-branded hotel in Cape Town.

JSE listed REIT Octodec Investments Limited, today announced its annual results for the year to 31 August 2020, against a weakening economic environment exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

The weeks that followed the hard lockdown at the end of March have been inconceivable for retailers.

JSE REIT Stor-Age, South Africa’s leading and largest self storage property fund, continued to outperform the sector, delivering a strong performance for the six months ended September 2020.

Investec Property Fund Limited (IPF or the Fund) has announced a 33.9% decline in distributable earnings yoy to 46.87cps (H1 FY20: 70.93cps) primarily due to the impact of COVID-19 related concessions and tenant failures that affected investments largely in South Africa.

South-African focused JSE-listed diversified REIT, Dipula Income Fund, today announced results for the year ended 31 August 2020 against a backdrop of substantial economic headwinds, exacerbated by Covid-19 (or “the pandemic”) related lockdown measures (“the lockdown measures”.)

By late-2019, all 3 major provinces had seen the rental payment performance of their Commercial Property tenant population slide mildly from highs reached a few years prior.