Hyprop Investment Limited’s Gauteng-based regional shopping centre, Clearwater Mall, has tripled the generation output of its solar photovoltaic PV plant and now boasts Africa’s largest rooftop Solar PV system.

The repo rate will remain unchanged at 6% per annum, Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Wednesday.

Attacq Limited, the pioneering JSE-listed capital growth property fund, today posted growth of 20.6% in net asset value for shareholders and growth in adjusted net asset value per share (NAVPS) of 17.9% for its full financial year to 30 June 2015.

Due to increased concern that the UK property market, particularly London, has been used by foreigners to launder money, the British government has announced that the Land Registry will shortly publish the full list of 10 000 titles held by foreign companies.

Atterbury Property today launched Richmond Park - a new multi-billion rand mixed-use property development in Cape Town on a prime greenfields site in Milnerton adjacent to the N7 highway – in its biggest and most ambitious project yet in the Western Cape.

With an increased focus on Africa from multinational occupiers, the key trends of portfolio optimisation, flexibility and improved utilisation form part of a specialised real estate service for corporates.

The Urban Investments Partnership Conference, co-hosted by the Departments of Cooperative Governance and the Department of Finance was held today at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, Johannesburg.

Redefine International, the FTSE 250 UK Real Estate Investment Trust announces that it has disposed of its entire remaining shareholding in the Cromwell Property Group, held through its 100% owned subsidiary Redefine Australian Investments Limited.

During the last three years, interest rates have been low and the rand has been strong, fuelling the growth of many businesses. 

Increased numbers of international investors are investigating opportunities in African real estate markets, attracted by the continent’s startling economic and demographic growth prospects.