The South African Real Estate Investment Trust Association (SA REIT) will host the first-ever SA REIT Conference in Sandton next month, offering direct access to an unprecedented panel of the brightest international minds and key local players active in the REIT sector.

CEMENT producers have been caught off-guard by rapid growth in demand over the past year and SA may face a shortage of cement by 2007.

Sale of Johnnic's publishing titles and cinemas likely to go ahead.

But listed sector is starting to offer good buying opportunities for investors

THE property syndication industry has been brought to a standstill largely as a result of a lack of liquidity, says Mike Flax, MD of Spearhead Property Holdings.

It seems that the underrated property sector is set for big things. In the past three years, you would have had a better return from property than equities just from the capital growth, which was 8,9% a year compared with 7,3% from equities.