The expected handover of more than a million title deeds to owners of subsidised houses during the next five years could speed up the opening of the formal property market in areas like Soweto.

Synergy Income Fund today announced half year distribution growth of 5% for its A linked unitholders and 11.3% for its B linked unitholders for the six-month interim period to 31 December 2013.

The FNB Estate Agent Survey suggests that the metro market segment that agents define as the Lower Income Segment showed the strongest demand-supply “fundamentals” of the 4 “suburban” income segments during 2011