A number of significant amendments to the City of Cape Town’s Municipal Planning By-laws of 2015 were promulgated this month (3 February), impacting both home owners and property owners in the hospitality industry who offer short-term and holiday accommodation.

As in the case of the buying/selling market survey, brokers perceive the most buoyant conditions to be in the Industrial Rental Market.

A free advice centre is helping to facilitate formal residential property transactions in Cape Town’s largest township, Khayelitsha.

A R113m new convenience retail centre will open at Atterbury’s Richmond Park development, the site of the biggest land restitution in the Western Cape, in April 2020.

The pilot study area consists of almost 1 000 properties located in four sites in Makhaza, Khayelitsha.

SAPOA is cognisant of the fact that to postpone ‘Day Zero’, the City launched several emergency water supply augmentation projects in mid-2017.

The Department of Transport and Public Works (DTPW) has completed the construction of the new District Six Community Health Centre.

People often ask what the difference is between a homeowners’ association (HOA) and a Body Corporate – or if they are similar.

Cape Town’s popularity as a world-class tourist destination has resulted in a spike in the number of homes available for holiday lets and fuelled investor demand for sectional title units with short term rental potential.

If private- and public-sector land investment in our cities concentrates on keeping the haves away from the have-nots, urban sprawl will be encouraged, Professor Edgar Pieterse, told Green Building Convention 2017 delegates at Century City in Cape Town last week.