Having highlighted Africa as a primary focus, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) global President Elect, Louise Brooke-Smith is currently visiting South Africa (February 2014) and Ghana.

Over the past decade, an increasing demand for large warehousing space among distribution and logistics companies has resulted in the establishment of new industrial townships next to the main arterial and secondary highways between the north and eastern suburbs of Johannesburg.

City Lodge reports a 14% rise in normalised diluted HEPS to 330.5c in the 6 months to December from the same period a year ago.

South Africa's serious property buyers are gearing up to bid for possibly the largest piece of vacant land made available for sale along the Atlantic Seaboard in Cape Town.

Waterfall City development is driving Africa’s fastest-growing urban node, marking the next wave of its ambitious commercial development at the landmark Waterfall Business Estate.

Arrowhead, the only JSE listed property company to pay quarterly distributions, announced its ninth distribution for the quarter ended 31 December 2013.

South Africans who have in recent years bought holiday pads in Mauritius, typically with price tags exceeding R10m, have been handsomely rewarded on the capital growth front.

The South African economy is estimated to have grown by less than 2% in 2013, with third quarter growth recorded at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of only 0,7%.

South Africans with property in the UK will in future be liable for capital gains tax there once they sell their property.

Growthpoint Properties has acquired a strategic site in Blackheath, Cape Town for a quality, tenant-tailored industrial property development.