A highlight on South Africa’s political calendar kicks off tomorrow at 17h00.

JSE-listed Echo Polska Properties (EPP), the leading owner and operator of shopping centres in Poland, has officially announced that a change of its company name from Echo Polska Properties N.V. to EPP N.V. has been registered by the trade register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.

While the number of international buyers in residential property in South Africa remains relatively low, at somewhere in the region of three percent nationally, investors from elsewhere on the continent – including returning expats - retain their appetite for the acquisition of South African real estate for a variety of reasons.