Reporting healthy growth in returns, Hyprop Investments Limited today announced an interim dividend of 262.7 cents per share for the six months to December 2014, up 13.7% on December 2013.

Hyprop Investments' share price falls 4% over the past week‚ creating what some believe is a temporary buying opportunity for investors keen to share in the spoils of SA's largest shopping centres and the burgeoning consumer markets of Ghana and Zambia.

Standard  Bank has affirmed its confidence in listed property group Hyprop Investments by granting the firm R500m debt that Hyprop plans to invest in completing various upgrades on Canal Walk in Cape Town and Hyde Park Shopping and The Glen Shopping Centre in Johannesburg throughout the year.

A STRONG performance from its shopping centres and its investment in listed Sycom Property Fund helped to boost Hyprop Investment’s distributions 15,4% to 150c for the six months to June.

Reflecting the defensive quality of its shopping centre assets in a depressed economy, JSE retail property fund Hyprop Investments posted a 15,4% increase in distributions to 150 cents for the six months to June 2008

JSE property fund Hyprop Investments announced its fourteenth consecutive year of growth with a record increase in distributions of 20% for the twelve months to December 2007