For those businesses who prefer not to formally engage tenant representative firms because they choose not to sign formal contracts / agreements, answer this:

The global financial recession has been countered in a variety of ways by governments but the last three years have shown that one of the most effective has been the assistance schemes to first time homebuyers

Growthpoint Properties' market perfomance has resisted the downward trend and ended 5,25% up.

Listed property loan stock company Growthpoint Properties had secured R2bn in additional debt facilities to help fund its R4bn development and acquisition pipeline, it said yesterday.

Many efforts to restore city centres across the US and Europe have failed, with many valuable lessons to learn

They prefer to play it safe with the commercial funds they know

 Cape Town The New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) is planning to set up an advisory panel on biotechnology and biosafety to guide African leaders through the controversial terrain of genetic engineering.

Analysts believe companies have been given impetus by the easing of exchange control regulations.

South Africa, along with Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco and Tunisia, accounted for 60 percent of all direct investment inflows into Africa from 1997 to 2001, a draft World Economic Forum (WEF) report had shown.

Impetus driving the December deadline is next year's US presidential elections after Bush's first term