Canal Walk is the only shopping centre in the country that has successfully established itself as a true super-regional, according to the findings of research undertaken by Urban Studies.

The Cape-Town based UUNet Bandwidth Barn is positioning itself as an ''export hub'' of IT intellectual capital and services, as it rolls out its strategy to form national and international alliances over the next year.

The Pezula Group, which owns the Private Estate and the Championship Golf Course at Pezula near Knysna, has entered into an agreement with African Pride Hotels and Lodges to develop an international five-star luxury hotel overlooking the Knysna lagoon and Indian Ocean.

The recently published SA Property Owners' Association (Sapoa) office vacancy figures for Cape Town show that in most office nodes vacancies continue to increase.

In a first for Southern Africa’s premier design and décor exhibition, Decorex 2003 will have a stand alone, dedicated ‘hot property pavilion’ at Gallagher Estate, Gauteng from 7th to 10th August this year.

Durban's Stamford Hill Road is changing for the better as buildings are being upgraded, and attractive new office and retail tenants move into the node.

If South Africa hopes to see real gross domestic product (GDP) above 3% in 2003, the rand is significantly overvalued, according to ABSA senior economist John Loos.

The possibility that inflation figures had been overstated by Statistics SA could mean the government had paid more to service its debt than it should have, Maria Ramos, the director-general of the national treasury, said on Friday.

One & Only Resorts, the hotel group run by Sol Kerzner and his son, Butch, is reported to be close to concluding a deal with the Inanda Club in Sandton.

WEEK AHEAD Inflation and GDP figures to dominate economics data releases