Listed property has shone amongst South Africa’s top 100 companies, based on share-price performance

Eskom said last year it would not provide electricity to new developments requiring more than 100kVA power because of SA’s low reserve margins.

A recently announced strategy deemed necessary to improve the quality of earnings and to generate sustainable long term distribution growth - including portfolio investment objectives, specific building strategies and a programme to buy back units - has been revised

What began as a single building residential conversion project to create important affordable housing in central Jo’burg has been skyrocketed into an unprecedented multi-building conversion of over a dozen neighbouring properties

Every listed property fund that has reported results so far this year has managed to raise income payouts by more than 10%. That suggests that the commercial property market - unlike its residential counterpart - still has some steam left

The plunge in the prices of listed property in the UK and Europe since the beginning of the year offers opportunities for South African listed property companies looking for offshore investments

Standard Bank has the key to winning control of Grayprop, the blue-chip property unit trust (PUT) - not through the 24% share in Grayprop's management company (manco),but via the pre-emptive right to buy Allan Gray's 76%, which has so far gone unnoticed.

In order to capture further potential gains in construction companies in the new year one will have to be a brave investor, according to Old Mutual's Faroz Basa.

SA's big institutions are to reveal all the details of their R50bn property holdings

The bright long-term outlook for earnings growth in South Africa’s listed property market, combined with the portfolio diversification and liquidity benefits of the sector, makes this asset class an attractive one for longer-term investors.