Users are buying up houses to get land to develop in Cape Town

HISTORICALLY, many homeowners, mostly those in the middle to lower income groups, have tended to skip bond payments over the Christmas period, using those funds for holidays, to subsidise Christmas shopping or to pay for pending school fees and school uniforms.

According to Saul Geffen, MD of MortgageSA, unless these homeowners make the payment up in January, which is unlikely, that skipped payment will end up costing them more than double in the long run.

Residential property coming into its own - Seeff

IS WESTERN Cape property, particularly on the Atlantic seaboard, pricing itself out of the market?

'Definitely not,' says Ian Slot, chairman of Seeff's Western Cape Licensees.

'Residential property in South Africa is undergoing a momentous revaluation as an asset class.

London and Tokyo remain the world's most expensive office locations, according to a global property report released Thursday showing rents falling in most of the world's major cities in 2002.

Pretoria - Overall business confidence in the building industry had weakened during the fourth quarter of this year and tendering competition had intensified, according to the latest survey of the industry conducted by the Bureau for Economic Research (BER).

This quarterly report probes the macro fundamentals driving the property market – in particular the relationship between interest rates and the property market vis-à-vis monetary policy.

In this quarterly report we explore the theme of inflation and the commercial property market – this is done in broadly three parts.

Old Mutual has bought The Link shopping centre in Claremont, Cape Town from.

Rethink: aesthetics don't govern rental returns in central areas, says Peter Rowell Commercial Properties director Peter Rowell has been involved in some of the city's biggest property deals involving millions of rands.

Knowledge Park provides 'smart, affordable and innovative space' KNOWLEDGE PARK at Century City has been acknowledged as one of the most innovative office developments in the country.