Cape Town has a higher number of trophy homes than Johannesburg.

The arguments against e-tolling and the strong opposition that they have engendered, surprising though it may seem, have failed to bring about any long term changes in the newly imposed user tax arrangements and this being so, the question is now being asked: "What effect will e-tolls have on the South African residential property market?"

The Green Building Council of South Africa is the winner in the Community Category of this year's Eskom eta Awards for their Green Street initiative in Cato Manor, Durban.

Specialising in providing a residential management service - which includes leasing and letting in regard to student accommodation, affordable housing, social housing and other residential homes, JHI Residential, which is a subsidiary of Excellerate Property Services, is rapidly expanding into Africa - mainly in Southern Africa, reports Thea Bezuidenhout, MD of JHI Residential.

Efforts to find any survivors in the wreckage of a collapsed mall in Tongaat, north of Durban, continued on Wednesday.

JV partners McCormick Property Development and KwaThomseni CC break ground on site of proposed 12 257m2 Mandeni Plaza.

The key drivers of house prices and residential rentals are showing no vigour‚ according to the latest Rode's Report on the SA Property Market.

The inter-governmental, multibillion Rand Cornubia Development, situated north of Durban, is underway and has just received a major boost after the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) agreed to fund the bulk of R830 million N2/M41 interchange.

Springfield Park, Riverhorse Valley, Briardene and Mount Edgecombe are fast emerging as industrial hotspots in Durban North.

Phoenix Industrial Park, one of Durban’s oldest and sizeable industrial parks, is the focus of a new retention and expansion programme which will see the city boosting local business as it reinvests in the park’s future. The knock-on effect on real estate being one noteworthy spinoff.