JSE-traded EPP, the pure Polish retail property fund, delivered a total return of 21% in 2018 to significantly outperform the market, making it the top performing listed property company of the year. This is a significant difference from the benchmark index (SAPY) total return of -25%.

No-one wants to default on their bond instalments or other account payments, but often in January and February, there just isn’t enough money to go around after a big holiday splurge in December.

Although the Camps Bay market has responded predictably to the prevailing socio-economic climate with lower sales volumes across the board, it has proven more resilient than most comparable areas this year with a 1.88% increase in the average house price and a diminishing gap between asking and selling prices.

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.

It was recently announced that South Africa is in a technical recession, and although it sounds daunting to buy a house during a recession, it might be the perfect time to do so.

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.

Balwin Properties, the JSE’s only national large-scale developer of turnkey sectional-title apartments and surrounding infrastructure aimed at the mid- to upper market segment, today announced a strategic rental model initiative that will see it access its extensive land bank quicker and share in annuity rental and other income over the longer term. 

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.

JSE-listed Accelerate Property Fund today reported interim financial results for the six months ended 30 September 2018 in line with company guidance.