South Africa’s residential property market has started to recover after an incredibly difficult year. “In 2024, typical for pre-election uncertainty, people held off large capital acquisitions such as buying a house,” says Renier Kriek, Managing Director at disruptive home financier Sentinel Homes. Potential property buyers and sellers had expected... Read more
Mall of Mthatha: A new name for a new era of retail in Mthatha
InvestmentOR Tambo DistrictProperty 09/03/2025
Since its acquisition in May 2024 by Flanagan & Gerard Property Group and leading retail REIT Vukile Property Fund (JSE: VKE), Mall of Mthatha (formerly BT Ngebs City) has undergone significant enhancements aimed at elevating the shopping experience and reinforcing its position as the region’s leading retail destination. The... Read more
Current property and vacant land stock shortages in the Garden Route have led to asking prices in the region increasing sharply this year, and it is not only South Africans who are choosing to move to this picturesque part of the world, international buyers are also lapping up high-value... Read more
With three months until Boardwalk Mall’s official opening, the development is comfortably on track to open fully-let, bringing the best shopping, leisure and entertainment South Africa has to offer to Gqeberha. The construction of the 24,000sqm single-level Boardwalk Mall is 80% complete and forging ahead. After preparing to commence... Read more
Principal of the Xoliswa Tini Properties, Xoliswa Tini, has been nominated for the 2018 SA Women in Property Awards in the businesswoman of the year entrepreneur category. One of only two nominees from the Eastern Cape, Tini will join nine Gauteng counterparts in Johannesburg mid-August for the awards ceremony... Read more
The government could hold a critical part of the puzzle to unlocking the residential property sector for black entrepreneurs says Xoliswa Tini of Xoliswa Tini Properties. Tini, who has announced that she is to franchise her brand in June, says that the property sector is yet to become more... Read more
Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi on Thursday called on property sector representatives and members of the public to work with government to expose corruption. “It is in all our interests to stamp out this culture of corruption, a practise which has brought this country to the brink of disaster,”... Read more
East London real estate entrepreneur Xoliswa Tini is to expand her 15-year old business to other provinces later this month and become the first black 100% owned female franchise in South Africa. The University of Cape Town graduate says that key role players like investors and developers are excited... Read more
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) has warned unsuspecting housing consumers against the fraudulent use of its logo in a letter allegedly sent out by Cosmopolitan Projects about guarantees on their completed homes. “The letter, which has an NHBRC logo, distorts the benefits that consumers are entitled to... Read more
Otis South Africa appoints its service Director
AfricaConstructionInfrastructureManufacturingPrivate sectorPropertySouth Africa 07/02/2018
Otis South Africa has appointed Nicolas Branly to the position of Service Director, reporting to the MD: Otis Africa, Daniel Daphne. Branly, who joined Otis France as Field Supervisor in 2009, holds a Bachelors’ Degree in Applied Economics from the University of Paris Dauphine, and MS Mechanical Engineering and... Read more
