After an unexpectedly tough 2018, but with the welcome announcement that the repo rate remains unchanged following this first MPC meeting of the year, the outlook for 2019 is somewhat brighter.

The SA REIT sector’s focus on improved corporate governance is expected to support positive sentiment for investment in listed property in 2019.

Moody's Investors Service has affirmed NEPI Rockcastle’s long-term credit rating and senior unsecured rating at ‘Baa3’ and changed the outlook from positive to stable.

One of South Africa’s leading office and industrial real estate consultancies, Knight Frank South Africa, has rebranded to Galetti Corporate Real Estate after concluding an investment deal with black-owned private equity business, Symmetry Capital Partners.

The SA REIT sector is set to deliver double-digit total returns to investors next year.

In keeping with the group’s strategy of investing across the broader European market, shareholders are advised that MAS, through a subsidiary of PKM Investments S.á.r.l., has acquired the Atrium Mall shopping centre in Arad, Romania from Cosmovia Holdings Limited, a member of the well-known Demjan Group based in Hungary.  

Growthpoint Properties continues to grow internationally with a further ZAR908 million investment in Australia.

On 4 October 2018 a consortium comprising the Peel Group (‘Peel’), the Olayan Group and Brookfield Property Group (together the ‘Consortium’) announced they were in the preliminary stages of considering a possible cash offer for intu.

It’s been over a decade since the start of the Global Financial Crisis , and markets have rebounded spectacularly in the years that have followed.

Divercity Urban Property Fund has turned the first sod of the Jewel City redevelopment in Joburg CBD.