JSE listed REIT Octodec today announced half year results exceeding its distribution guidance despite the challenging economic, political and operating environment.

Real estate consulting firm, JLL SSA, has released its 2016 Investment Review of the South African property market with analysis reporting a R28.8bn increase in investment (from 18,5bn in 2015), and a similar 52.8% increase in gross lettable area (2 million square metres).

Rebosis Property Fund, a JSE listed Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) whose strategy is directed toward dominant retail malls and which recently internalised its management team, has reported net property income growth of 74,6% for the six months ended 28 February 2017.

An entire block of a Sea Point retail space will be dedicated to a new, seven-day food and product market in the ever-evolving Regent Road.

Over the last two years, Kenya’s retail market has seen the opening of new shopping centres countrywide taking the retail GLA across the country to just over 760,000m2.

It was an evening of glitz, glamour and achievement as the 2016 Certificate of Shopping Centre Management (CSCM) and Advanced Certificate of Shopping Centre Leadership (ACSCL) students gathered to celebrate their success at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria recently.

Situated on the intersection of the N3 highway and London Road the Mall is the realisation of a dream a decade in the making.

Shopping centres within the South African Broll portfolio generally experienced an increase in year-on-year (y/y) trading density growth in December 2016 with the exception of community centres, according to the Broll Retail Snapshot Q4: 2016 report.

Attacq subsidiary disposes of investments in Cyprus and Serbia.

The new Kumasi City Mall in Ghana’s city of Kumasi will open on 20 April 2017.