Identifying future trends and learning important lessons from the past are both essential for property investment in a challenging global and domestic marketplace. This is what the 10th Annual Investment Property Databank (IPD) Property Investment Conference is doing for investors.

Bigen Africa, a South African infrastructural development company, has expressed interest in partnering Ghanaian real estate companies to build affordable houses for the poor and middle income earners

Having invested in more than R7.8 billion worth of projects across South Africa’s major cities, private equity funder International Housing Solutions (IHS), is set to roll out its first 'gap' residential development in the province of KwaZulu-Natal

A US based study has considered a wide range of external and macro-economic, societal, political and other influences, triangulating these drivers against trends affecting globally networked enterprise and the corporate real estate universe, offering concepts that can be applied to South Africa

The retail and wholesale sector is already the second largest contributor to the GDP (gross domestic product) of Namibia

Global retailers had been coming in to South Africa to look at what pushed the world's biggest retailer into spending $2.4 billion for control of South Africa's Massmart

Knight Frank, a global property company with 209 offices in 47 countries across six continents handling in excess of US$755 billion worth of commercial, agricultural and residential real estate transactions annually, has launched Knight Frank Commercial in SA

Landlords in South Africa in recent years have sometimes had the impression that the courts, in their endeavour to comply with the constitutional right of citizens to have “access to adequate housing”, have been overly sympathetic to tenants

Don’t Waste Services (DWS), the largest on-site waste management company in South Africa, has announced plans to open offices in African countries that include Zambia, Swaziland, Botswana, Mauritius and Kenya

Combining SA and local interest, Gateway regional shopping centre in Lilongwe, Malawi – the largest ever in the country – is moving rapidly to completion