Targeted consumer price inflation, which will be released tomorrow, probably slowed to an annual 6.7 percent in June from 7.7 percent the month before, according to the median forecast of 10 economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

We have continued to hold an upbeat view on the performance of the retail property market in general and certainly expect property returns to be significantly superiour to the other commercial property sectors in 2003.

There has in recent weeks been a noticeable increase in the demand for retail space throughout South Africa, says Stuart Chait,

Banking group under-budgeted' the costs

Analysts say sector could be entering a new growth cycle with recent drop in interest rates.

The Joint Municipal Pension Fund (JMPF) – in existence for 80years and one of the country’s oldest – has awarded management of its property portfolio to Broll Property Group.

AFRICA will soon be on the radar screen of the American and European retail chains.

DURBAN Mandla-Matla Publishing , publishers of Zulu-language daily newspaper Ilanga, has become the first company to acquire land in the newly released tract aimed at boosting development of the city's waterfront project.

INDUSTRIAL properties are selling well at Cape Town's Airport City a development bounded by Borcherds Quarry Road, Cape Town International Airport and the N2 highway, says Baker Street, a property company.

Chain opens supermarkets in what were red-lined areas