MARRIOTT Property Services is listing SA Retail Properties, the 19th property loan stock company on the JSE Securities Exchange SA, on Friday. The fund will be a focused fund a departure from the trend of diversified portfolios in the local listed property sector.

ALL pointers suggest that the property loan stock sector of the JSE Securities Exchange SA will see an unprecedented scale of growth in the next few years.

Emerging retail communities are to be represented for the first time in the JSE property sector with the joining of Shops for Africa Ltd.

LISTED property group Gold Edge and property loan stock company Octodec Investments announced yesterday the acquisition of Killarney Mall, a prime shopping centre north of Johannesburg, for R235m.

The operations of Allan Gray Property Trust (Grayprop) and Allan Gray Property Investments (Grayvest) are to be merged, it was announced on Friday.

CORONATION Property Equity Fund has chosen to limit new investment in its fund to R400m because of the limited choice offered by the listed property sector of the JSE Securities Exchange SA.

UK property group Liberty International has seen its ranking on the FTSE-100 index rise to number 88 this week from number 96 last week based on market capitalization, thus much improving the group's chances of its...

Listed-property expert and head of Catalyst Gauteng operations Harry Boonzaaier has again discredited the popular view that high gearing was good for shareholder value in property investment vehicles.

A number of changes to the structure and regulation of property unit trusts on the JSE Securities Exchange SA should stimulate growth in the sector, says Association of Property Unit Trusts chairman John Rainier.

Strategy of nonrecourse funding continued