As if on cue, shares in the suitably named Resilient REIT roared, entrenching themselves in the pound seat, after the firm churned out yet another bumper set of earnings numbers.

Atlantic Leaf Properties Ltd, the Mauritian domiciled property company with secondary listing on the AltX in Johannesburg, raised GBP49.5m (R1.14bn) in capital from investors during the first week of February 2016.

Indluplace Properties, the JSE’s first pure residential focused REIT, announced a dividend for the quarter ended 31 December 2015 of 22,93 cents per share.

The SA REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) sector has published Best Practice Recommendations that will make financial reporting of South African REITs clearer and more comparable.

A new 148-room City Lodge Hotel has opened at Newtown Junction - Atterbury Property Developments’ ground-breaking R1.4 billion mixed-use development in the Joburg CBD.

New report sponsored by global law firm Baker & McKenzie finds that the funding gap for African infrastructure narrows to about USD25bn a year.

Hotel and casino group Sun International will remain a committed investor in Nigeria despite run-ins with that country’s authorities.

More South African-listed property funds are looking to Australia for offshore expansion because of its better finance costto-yield spread.

His father was a carpenter, his granddad a contractor.

Things at the country’s largest REIT by gross assets are not looking up. Growthpoint ended 2015 on a soft note after lopping off a fortune in investors’ funds. Figures from Catalyst Fund Managers are dispiriting from an investor’s angle.