RICS (the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) has launched the Cities for our Future Challenge, calling on young people to come up with fresh, new ideas to help tackle the most pressing problems affecting cities in Africa and around the world.

The Africa Summit of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has entrenched itself as an annual event and will reconvene for the fourth consecutive year in Sandton Central, Johannesburg, in May.

Government and state-owned companies (SOCs) is set to spend R865.4 billion on public sector infrastructure, over the course of the next three years. 

National Treasury has revised downwards South Africa’s economic growth to 1.5%.

JLL’s latest thought leadership research paper ‘Spotlight on Africa: Opportunity on the Horizon’ explores the investment potential of hotels in Africa, and notes a significant improvement over the past decade, though it is not without its challenges.

Attacq Limited, the pioneering JSE-listed capital growth property fund, today posted growth of 20.6% in net asset value for shareholders and growth in adjusted net asset value per share (NAVPS) of 17.9% for its full financial year to 30 June 2015.

Hong Kong-listed Shanghai Zendai is going ahead with its grandiose plans to build a colossal mixed-use city in the sleepy village of Modderfontein northeast of Johannesburg.

Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking (NCIB) has concluded an estimated R1.14 billion loan facility to finance a joint venture (JV) between Durban based commercial property development and investment company, Collins, and Aveng.

Cape Town trade and investment head Lance Greyling says that the metro has made submissions to the Independent Power Producers office, expressing its desire to purchase 300MW of gas-fired power.

The success or failure of addressing South Africa’s energy, infrastructure and unemployment increasingly lies in the ability of government and business being able to work effectively together in public/private sector partnerships.

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