The SA Listed Property Index (SAPY) recorded a negative total return (-0.50%) for the month ended 30 November 2015. 

The SA Listed Property Index (J253) recorded a positive return of 3.16% for the month ended February 2015.

2014 ended on a positive note for landlords and rental agents, with 86% of residential tenants recorded as being in Good Standing.

Year-on-year property statistics released by ooba, South Africa's largest bond originator, signal a favourable outlook for the South African property market in 2015.

The SA Listed Property Index (J253) recorded a positive return of 7.38% for the month ended January 2015.

Commercial property still offers the best returns

Though equities outperformed the listed property sector as an asset class, Stanlib's head of property funds, Keillen Ndlovu, gives a compelling reasons to include listed property in investors' portfolios.

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.

South African investors are likely to make more money in offshore property markets next year than in their own backyards.

Ever since the global financial crisis of 2008 the world's advanced economies, that led the way into the crisis, have struggled to get back to their pre-crisis performances.