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Top dollar: One on Bree is a 131m (430ft) mixed-use building under construction in Cape Town. Photo: Paragon Architects

The real estate year in review

2025 didn’t see a boom but it was not a bust

Expansion needed: Supporters of the sale of the Cape Town International Convention Centre argue that if the
City continues to own it, the funding obligation to grow it falls partly on the public purse. Photo: Discott

Why the City of Cape Town selling its real estate is not as simple as it looks

Selling too much public property now could limit future opportunities for social housing, community facilities or public projects that only the state can deliver

HANDS-ON: Johanneburg Mayor Dada Morero has been spearheading countless cleaning-up operations
around the City lately. Photo: Supplied

You don’t need a summit to clean a city; you need consistency

The people of Johannesburg have cried many tears over the past decade and become accustomed to temporary service delivery ‘solutions’

Up and away: Ellipse Waterfall, situated in Waterfall City, Midrand, was developed by the Tricolt Group. Photo: Supplied

Building confidence builds the economy

Real estate investment trusts are booming, reporting strong results for the interim period ending December

Redefine currently leases 73 116 square metres to Pick n Pay.  (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Pick n Pay, Ster-Kinekor unprofitable for Redefine

The property group says it is reducing space it lets to underperforming tenants

What would significantly boost the amount of money available to potential homeowners is the creation of a secondary market.

Real estate isn’t sexy, but in South Africa it’s serious

Being able to own property will help close the wealth gap between black and white people

Xoliswa Tini is forging her own path in real estate. (Graphic: John McCann)

Xolisa Tini

Real estate entrepreneur

Around ‘5% of estate agents registered with the EAAB are black — the residential sales market is undoubtedly dominated by white agents’.

Estate agency industry slow to transform

Recent racist incidents involving real estate agents have put the sector’s transformative capacity in dispute.

Shiraaz Mohamed was also well known in the Ennerdale community because of his work in the media industry.

Are estate agents’ days numbered?

Despite high fees, the industry says it has yet to feel lasting effects from low-cost tech newcomers

Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille accepts the nomination as new leader of the Democratic Alliance in the Western Cape on Saturday.

Pastor Shepherd Bushiri ministries fined R87 500

Church broke environmental law by going ahead with illegal construction.

The most expensive suburb in Cape Town is Camps Bay. In that area house prices have gone up by 50% in five years.

Location, location, location as Cape Town property prices rocket through the roof

You’ll be lucky if you can get a matchbox on the Atlantic Seaboard for just over R1m, as ‘semigration’ sees demand – and prices – soar.

Beach house in Wilderness.

Curbs on owning land could see jittery locals selling

Part of the market is waiting for more clarity from the government, but experts hope that panic selling can be avoided.

CB Richard Ellis Limited has pulled out of Zimbabwe.

Real-estate giant pulls out of Zim

Poor country perception and a now resolved shareholder dispute have forced real-estate firm CB Richard Ellis Limited to pull out of Zimbabwe.

Advocate Taswell Papier at the Estate Agency Affairs Summit.

Transformation excites administrator

New board to address issues regarding training and certification requirements.

Egypt unrest pushes Orascom Development into loss

Following the civil uprising in Egypt, a slump in investment and legal challenges to state land sales have thrown the real estate sector into turmoil.

Dreary house price growth hits real estate agents

Another bad year for house price growth has given the real estate industry a tougher climate as commission earnings for agents decline.

Angolan govt to fight house-price hikes

Authorities in Angola have promised to fight speculation in the Luanda real-estate market, which has boosted house prices as high as -million.