How this Nigerian entrepreneur is building the bridge between Africa and the Caribbean

She took over 100 Africans to the Caribbean. Now Aisha Maina is quietly reshaping Afri-Caribbean business and diplomacy. When Aisha Maina hosted the Aquarian Consult Afri-Caribbean Investment Summit ...

Investing in the future of property leaders: SAPOA 2026 Bursary Fund applications open

The following qualifications are sponsored by the SAPOA Bursary Fund: South African citizens aged 18-35-years old who are Employment Equity candidates, as well as current undergraduates in SAPOA-funde...

Applications open: Property Point’s 2025 Enterprise Development Programme

Applications for Property Point’s 2025 Enterprise Development Programme are open. Open until the 1st of August 2025, the programme focuses on driving economic transformation, job creation, and SME gro...

SAPOA: Q2 2025’s office vacancy rate the lowest since late 2020

South Africa’s office vacancy rate improved to 13.3% during Q2 2025 – the lowest level since Q4 2020 according to SAPOA’s Office Vacancy Survey. Of the 54 nodes surveyed, the vacancy rate improved in ...

Joburg incentivizes CBD residential development with property rebates

The City of Johannesburg is encouraging property owners to take advantage of the property rebates available through its approved 2025/2026 Property Rates Policy which aims to attract developers to bui...

Green-certified office space delivers a total return of 10.1% during 2024, retail 13.2%

Green certified Prime and A-grade offices produced a total return of 10.1% during 2024, 120 basis points above non-certified office space of a similar quality according to the latest MSCI South Africa...

Tanzania: Entrepreneur sees ‘a lot of money’ in agriculture

Hadija Jabiri, founder of agribusiness company GBRI, sees untapped potential across Tanzania’s agricultural sector, particularly in processing fruit, vegetables and grains into value-added products. “...

Nationwide commercial assets on auction as investor confidence drives demand

Off the back of a stabilising rate environment, South African investors are continuing to purchase well-located assets with resilient income streams, particularly in the logistics, retail and resident...

Spear REIT forecasts 4% – 6% DIPS growth for FY2026

From left to right: COO, Cliff Toerin; CEO, Quintin Rossi; CIO, Kim Pfaff-Karg, and CFO, Christiaan Barnard. Spear REIT Limited has issued a financial update for the three months ended 31st May 2025, ...

Medium-sized construction firms drove growth in Q1 2025, smaller enterprises left behind

Medium-sized construction firms drove sector growth in Q1 2025, recording an 85% year-on-year increase in turnover while smaller enterprises experienced a dismal quarter with construction turnover dow...

SAPOA and Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber sign MOU

The South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) and the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at advancing business enablement within the comm...

Standard Bank joins SAMRRA

Standard Bank has joined the South African Multifamily Residential Rental Association (SAMRRA) as its first member from the banking sector. “The active participation of a leading commercial bank in th...

Cape Town to incentivise and regulate affordable housing development with by-law amendments

The City of Cape Town’s Council has approved changes to the Municipal Planning By-Law including a new land-use right to build affordable rental units in areas with the highest demand, enabling more to...

Hyprop reports y/y growth in tenant turnover and trading density

Growthpoint ups DIPS guidance for FY2025

Growthpoint Properties has issued its trading update for the nine months ended 31st March, reporting an improvement in its South African vacancies from 8.7% at 30 June 2024 (FY2024) to 8.3% as at 31st...

Tshwane records strongest y/y growth in average monthly gross income among home loan applicants

Home purchases are rising and so are applicants’ income according to data from ooba Home Loans for January 2025 to May 2025 which highlights positive year-on-year growth in the average monthly gross i...

Property brokers point to a ‘stutter’ in commercial sales activity levels in Q2 2025

Combined results from the Q2 2025 FNB Property Broker Survey regarding business confidence and sales activity have pointed to a broad perception of the investor market environment having weakened when...

Above-average rainfall severely impacted the construction industry in Q1 2025

Findings in the Afrimat Construction Index (ACI) for Q1 2025 are an accurate reflection of the government’s lack of willingness to spend on economic assets, says Dr Roelof Botha, compiler of the index...

Hot spots for rental investors in KZN and the Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape and certain areas in KwaZulu-Natal are experiencing notable growth in the buy-to-let investment boom says Seeff in areas such as Hillcrest, the Upper Highway region, the Midlands, and...

The entrepreneur exporting Tanzania’s agricultural products to Europe

Hadija Jabiri is the founder of GBRI, a Tanzanian agribusiness company that started with vegetables and now exports avocados to Europe and India. How we made it in Africa editor-in-chief Jaco Maritz ...

Growthpoint starts construction on new Sandton Drive Link Bridge

Engineered to be safe, durable, and maintenance free, the link bridge’s unique architectural design features an angular balustraded walkway clad in stainless steel, making it both a functional and aes...

Residential property market’s recovery driven by sustained decline in new housing stock

Residential house price growth accelerated in May 2025, primarily driven by the middle-to-upper priced segments while growth in the lower-priced segments was stable. According to FNB Economist, Sipham...

AI in commercial property: SAPOA and legal experts explore promise, pitfalls and prudence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the commercial property landscape but, as with any revolution, the excitement comes tempered by concern. This was the prevailing message at SAPOA’s Gauteng...

Leasing for new ±R600m GrandWest Mall underway

Sun International and Flanagan & Gerard recently hosted the leasing launch of the 22 000m2 GrandWest Mall, drawing interest from more than 100 leading national, regional, and local retailers. Approxim...

Call for Entries: Africa Property Investment Awards 2025

The countdown to the prestigious 9th Annual Property Investment (API) Awards, part of the API Summit themed ‘Growth Through Adventure’, has begun. Judged by a distinguished panel of industry experts a...

Franschhoek fetches record prices, in record selling time, to foreign buyers

Foreign buyers currently account for around 32% of high-end residential property sales in Franschhoek says Jawitz Properties. Jawitz is also witnessing a generational shift in the ages of so-called sw...

Property rate changes relative to CPI inflation uncovers the real burden on property owners

South Africa’s property owners face a complex landscape of rising rates and taxes alongside evolving market dynamics and strategic shifts across sectors. In Johannesburg, property rates and taxes have...

Pick n Pay’s strategic streamlining asset approach provides opportunity for savvy landlords and d...

Pick n Pay’s strategic downscaling marks a turning point for SA’s retail sector. Under the leadership of returning CEO Sean Summers, the retailer is undergoing a significant ‘back to basics’ reset in...

Hilton announces plans to almost triple its presence in Africa in coming years

Hilton has plans to almost triple its presence in Africa to more than 160 hotels in the coming years. The announcement was made at the Future Hospitality Africa Summit (FHS Africa), where the brand an...

Stor-Age REIT outperforms economic cycles and sector indices over the past decade

Stor-Age REIT Limited has posted a strong set of results for its financial year ended 31st March 2025, marking a decade of consistent performance and portfolio growth. “In 2015 we brought to market a ...

Vukile Property Fund’s township, rural assets outperform in trading density growth

Vukile Property Fund has posted its results for the year ended 31st March 2025, achieving 3% growth in full-year Funds from Operations (FFO) per share and a 6% increase in its dividend per share. The...

Certified green buildings deliver better returns

Longkloof Studios is a green certified commercial office space in Cape Town, having achieved a 4-Star Green Star Existing Building Performance rating. Image credit: Growthpoint Properties. Too many b...

Ghanaian CEO shares lessons from building a retail business

Charles Antwi-Boahen is the founder of Kab-Fam, an electronics and home appliance retailer that has grown from modest beginnings into a 16-store chain across Ghana. In a recent interview with How we ...

Strained construction sector remains highly reliant on state-driven activity

The construction sector continues to reflect a division between renewed investment optimism and deep-rooted structural weakness according to Industry Insight. Residential approvals and building materi...

Limpopo’s Groblersdal Mall undergoes revamp

Groblersdal Mall in Limpopo is undergoing redevelopment, led by co-owners Twin City and Patricio & Sons. The shopping centre opened in 2017. The refurbishment, which began in February 2025, will see ...

A closer look at commercial property’s long-term performance reveals a multi-year cumulative corr...

A closer look at long-term commercial property performance has revealed a significant multi-year cumulative correction says John Loos, Senior Economist at FNB Commercial Property Finance. South Africa...

Rainmaker Marketing and Hirsch’s collab to offer homebuyers and developers extra added value

Rainmaker Marketing has officially partnered with Hirsch’s Homestores to launch a new initiative aimed at residential developments. The collaboration marks a first for the property marketing space, of...

922 properties currently listed as ‘problem buildings’ in Cape Town

The City of Cape Town says its Problem Building Unit has 922 properties on its list with 35% of these active investigations. The Law Enforcement Problem Building Unit has addressed problem properties ...

South Africa’s average residential rental R9 132 in Q1 2025

South Africa’s residential rental market began 2025 with its best performance in years according to the latest PayProp Rental Index. Average national rental growth reached 5.6% in Q1 2025, the strong...

Johannesburg leads in Africa’s data centre market

Johannesburg is Africa’s leading data centre market as the only city on the continent included in Cushman & Wakefield | BROLL’s 2025 Global Data Centre Market Comparison’s emerging markets rankings, c...

Hammer-dropping action expected at Broll Auctions’ June 2025 sale

The Reserve Bank’s May interest rate cut together with the VAT freeze are driving investor sentiment, resulting in a growing appetite for well-located, income-producing commercial property. Broll Auct...

Fortress Real Estate Investments reports record-low vacancies

Fortress Real Estate Investments Limited has reported record-low vacancies in its trading and pre-close operational update for the period to 31st December 2024. With 117 915m2 of new logistics develop...

PPC publishes highest set of results since FY2018

“Implementing phase one of our ‘Awaken the Giant’ strategic turnaround plan has resulted in a step change in PPC’s margins, profitability and cash generation, which are the highest since financial yea...

Ghana: From side hustle to 16 stores – a retail entrepreneur’s story

SAPOA: SA’s shopping centres reported slower, but still positive, trading performances in Q1 2025

Institutionally owned shopping centres in SA reported slower, but still positive, trading performances in the year to March 2025 with annualised trading density having grown by 3.5%. For more detailed...

Public participation process opens for proposed mixed-use development for Athlone Stadium’s overf...

The City of Cape Town’s public participation process for the proposed disposal of part of Athlone Stadium’s parking lot for mixed-use development has opened. Part of the Athlone Stadium’s precinct (ma...

Building an investable and scalable business in Kenya: Founders share their thoughts

Kenya has long been celebrated for its entrepreneurial spirit, where necessity meets ingenuity and ambition. Nowhere is this more evident than in Nairobi, a city increasingly recognised as a nerve ce...

Fairvest to acquire 5 retail assets, increases stake in Dipula Properties

Fairvest Limited is acquiring five retail assets in KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape for R477.7 million with a blended yield of 9.81%. The Company has concluded agreements to acquire Nquthu Shopping...

SA’s REIT sector surpasses R250bn market cap – the first since January 2020

South Africa’s REIT sector continued its upward trajectory in May 2025, posting a 4.1% gain – once again outperforming the equity market (3.1%) and bonds (2.7%). This latest increase builds on April 2...

Leratong City’s journey begins

The journey to the Leratong City nodal development has begun with its recent sod turning ceremony. A partnership between the Gauteng government, Mogale City Local Municipality, and Trendville, plans f...