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

Hermans & Roman Properties Limited will be structured as a property loan stock company and the linked units of the Company are intended to be listed in the “Real Estate Holdings and Development” sector of the Main Board of the JSE.

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

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

JHI Properties and law firm Glyn Marais have formed a joint venture for the provision of property due diligence for retail and commercial properties nationally and throughout the African continent.

Liberty Properties, through its role as the development manager of the Levy shopping centre in Lusaka, Zambia, has many lessons for other property players looking to operate outside SA.

Construction would take 18 months and the development would see traffic diverted into three streams, one each for light vehicles, pedestrians and buses and trucks

Construction Group Raubex Group has pointed to a secured order book of R4.7bn to help see the group through continued challenging trading conditions in the short-term.

Raubex has reported headline earnings per share up 11% to 323.8c for the year ended February 28, 2010 from 291.7c previously.