If you want to rent accommodation, but find the upfront deposit a steep financial challenge, there is a solution: take a short term loan that covers the deposit and pay it back over 12 months. When your lease ends, you are entitled to get back your deposit plus interest from the landlord.

Almost 2 000 attractive student accommodation opportunities are set to come onto the market in downtown Joburg - close to the two major universities – in time for the 2012 academic year

Developers, heeding the demand by families and young professionals for affordable homes to rent, have just released hundreds of newly built double story apartments in Soweto to rent for R3200 a month including parking.