House prices grow at a more moderate pace in January, but FNB believes this has nothing to do with January's surprise rate hike.
Residential rental returns and capital growth are by no means uniform in south africa – and investors should realise this.
Capital & Counties Properties may well have appeared fully priced after the stock had more than doubled in the previous two years, but it continues to defy gravity.
Home owners and residential property investors are likely to start making money again on their bricks-and-mortar assets this year after a six-year housing slump.
In today's fast moving and economically challenging business environment it is increasingly necessary to have access to available funds in order to secure transactions as they arise or reinvest capital into a business at short notice.
House price increases slow last year but 2014 might well be better for home owners, extending the recovery of the last couple of years.
One of the more positive signs of the property market in 2013 is that banks started to ease their lending criteria.
Most South African bond originators, says Mike van Alphen, National Manager of the Rawson Property Group's bond origination division, Rawson Finance, have to regularly deal with complaints from self-employed people who have experienced difficulties in obtaining bond finance for new home purchases.

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