News

Illustrative image of Cape Town at sunset: Table Mountain behind the city, a glass office building and terrace, a logistics warehouse with trucks, new apartment blocks, and white arrows rising over the skyline

By Neale PetersenOctober 19, 2026

Standard Bank CIB’s Andrew Robinson on SA property’s shift from balance-sheet repair to growth, and where capital will flow next.

Illustrative image: a young man with a backpack on a balcony looks out over apartment blocks, office towers and a busy street at sunset, with mountains behind the city

Finance

The Right Property Can Build a Lasting Business

TUHF Capital’s Justine Pillay on building a lasting property business: why cheap isn’t value, protecting cash flow and matching tenant demand.

A long, white single-storey Melrose home with a green roof and a deep columned veranda, behind a wide lawn framed by mature trees, a garden bench and a lamp post

Residential

R27m Melrose sale highlights Joburg's luxury demand

A R27 million Melrose sale by Pam Golding Properties shows lasting demand in Melrose, Dunkeld and Westcliff, where scarce stock and long ownership hold value.

Commercial

Growthpoint completes 18-year Industrial estate vision

Growthpoint completes its 23-hectare Meadowdale industrial estate with a 6,518m² cross-dock facility for DPD Laser, as e-commerce drives logistics demand.

Computer-generated image of the entrance to Newlyn Logistics Park in Gqeberha: a green and grey gatehouse canopy with the Newlyn Logistics Park sign, trucks and cars queuing at the boom gates

Commercial

Newlyn’s 150,000m² Gqeberha Logistics Park takes shape

Newlyn Group’s first 10,000m² warehouse at its 150,000m² Gqeberha logistics park is due in December 2026, with a second starting in October. Specs, fire safety and the investment case.

The stage at the NAMA 2026 National Conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre, with a large screen showing a slide for Marina Constas, Director, BBM Attorneys, and a sofa and armchairs on stage

Asset ManagementOctober 16, 2026

Community Schemes face a new era of accountability

A speaker presents on a stage at a GBCSA Green Building Convention, with a slide on typical business operating costs and a seated audience in the foreground under red lighting

NewsOctober 16, 2026

Green Building leaders unite to drive SA’s Green Revolution

Cape Town skyline and Table Mountain behind a row of wooden toy houses on rising stacks of coins, a red upward arrow above them and a For Sale sign on the right

ResidentialOctober 15, 2026

Cape Town’s housing boom is becoming an affordability crisis

Aerial view of an Equites logistics park at Atlantic Hills, Cape Town, with a large Puma-branded warehouse with rooftop solar panels beside the Puma office building and a motorway

CommercialOctober 15, 2026

Equites lifts dividend 5.1% as SA logistics investment surges

Collage of Cape Town: a hand holding a phone showing an Airbnb listing with Table Mountain behind, and a City of Cape Town sign for the draft short-term letting by-law above signposts for affordable housing, more homes, development, and jobs and growth

ResidentialOctober 14, 2026

Airbnb crackdown won’t solve Cape Town’s housing crisis

A construction worker in a hard hat and red shirt sitting on the timber frame of a new house, with a ladder beside him and sun through the trees

ResidentialOctober 14, 2026

SA Housing market holds firm as new home supply slows

A colourful hand-painted signpost reading Soweto, with arrows to Hector Pieterson Museum, Mandela's House, Orlando Towers, Orlando Stadium and Desmond Tutu's house, in front of a South African flag and a blue sky

ResidentialOctober 13, 2026

Soweto’s Rental Boom: Investors target 12% yields

Split scene: a Johannesburg house with a To Let sign and the skyline on the left, a rental-income arrow pointing to Cape Town and Table Mountain, and a couple relaxing on a terrace overlooking the sea on the right

ResidentialOctober 13, 2026

The Joburg home paying for a Cape Town lifestyle

A worried homebuyer looks at his phone beside a laptop showing an urgent R250,000 bank transfer request, with a hooded cyber criminal in the background

FinanceOctober 12, 2026

Property Deposit Fraud: The risk every homebuyer must know

Deon Schlebusch of Big Talk Entertainment and Francois Vorster of IMS smiling beside a laptop showing ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity feeding an AI hub that returns properties for sale, estate agents and commercial property, with search questions about Cape Town, Sandton and Pretoria property above

TechnologyOctober 11, 2026

Is AI recommending your property business?

A couple on a Cape Town terrace look out over the city and Table Mountain, with a map of South Africa showing moves from Cape Town to the Cape Winelands and Whale Coast, wealth-planning books and circular insets of a villa, vineyards, financial papers, a family on a beach and a globe

FinanceOctober 12, 2026

SA’s changing Wealth Map: 7 financial moves before relocating

Tower cranes and scaffolding against a blue sky as construction gets under way at the Thrive Student Living student accommodation site in Berea, Durban

CommercialOctober 12, 2026

Growthpoint unlocks R102m for local businesses and jobs

Aerial view of a dense waterfront suburb of white and terracotta-roofed houses with solar panels, palm trees and a canal

ResidentialOctober 12, 2026

Is property still a safe investment in South Africa?

CommercialOctober 8, 2026

The R151bn Property Portfolio SA could unlock

South African flag and a glowing house-price chart rising then curving down over a Cape Town suburb with Table Mountain and the city at sunset

Research ReportsOctober 8, 2026

SA House Prices hit 8.2%, but is the peak near?

NewsOctober 8, 2026

CapeTrain Express: The rail plan to reshape Cape Town

Steven Brown, new SAPOA president, speaking at a clear lectern in his presidential chain against orange-lit stage screens

CommercialOctober 8, 2026

Steven Brown’s challenge: Back SA property at home

Hammerson chief executive Rob Wilkinson smiling in a light blue shirt beside a window overlooking Cape Town

CommercialOctober 7, 2026

Why Hammerson is betting on retail again

A man in a dark suit looks out over Cape Town's V&A Waterfront and Table Mountain at sunset, with arrows from icons of people, money, offices, warehouses and a delivery truck pointing towards the Western Cape on a map of South Africa

NewsOctober 6, 2026

Semigration 2.0: Capital is following people to the Cape

Neale Petersen of Real Estate Investor with the runner-up certificate for Property News Website of the Year at the 2026 SAPOA Awards

NewsOctober 5, 2026

SAPOA 2026 Awards celebrate property’s best

FindHomes rental market snapshot: a laptop showing rental listings on a map in front of Table Mountain and Cape Town apartments, with figures for 156,600+ listings, 25% of Western Cape listings reduced, a 7.1% typical reduction, 18 days to a cut and 35% listed 46 days or longer

Asset ManagementOctober 5, 2026

Rental market splits as landlords cut asking prices

Yuehan Wang of JLL presenting on stage at the 2026 SAPOA Annual Convention, in front of a backdrop reading ‘60 Years & Beyond’

TechnologyOctober 5, 2026

AI is redrawing real estate’s investment map

Aerial view of a new white clifftop home at Pinnacle Point, with a golf fairway, more homes on the headland and the ocean beyond

ResidentialOctober 5, 2026

Garden Route shifts from holiday homes to permanent living

Dr Andrew Golding, chief executive of Pam Golding Properties, smiling in a dark suit and patterned tie in a wood-panelled office

Estate AgentsOctober 5, 2026

Exclusive or open mandate? What sellers need to know

Ian Anderson, Head of Listed Property and Portfolio Manager at Merchant West Investments

CommercialOctober 2, 2026

SA REITs defy equity sell-off as income growth surges

Collage of a fuel nozzle, an oil refinery and a map of Iran, a rising red arrow over stacks of coins, the SARB building and Cape Town suburbs, with a man in a white shirt standing arms folded

FinanceOctober 2, 2026

Iran shock raises pressure on SA households and property

Real Estate Investor receives the runner-up certificate for Property News Website of the Year on stage at the SAPOA Journalism Awards for Excellence 2026 at Sun City

NewsOctober 1, 2026

REI honoured at SAPOA Journalism Awards 2026

The SA Economics panel, moderated by Richard Quest, on stage at SAPOA’s 60th Annual Convention at Sun City

FinanceSeptember 30, 2026

Economists debate SA’s economic future at SAPOA

Data Hub

Full Snapshot

Repo rate (SARB)
Monetary Policy Committee rate · 19 Oct 2026
7.25%
+0.25pp on 25 Sep 2026
Prime lending rate
Standard bank variable rate · 19 Oct 2026
10.75%
+0.25pp on 25 Sep 2026
Inflation (CPI)
Consumer price index (YoY) · Aug 2026
4.4%
+0.1pp from 4.3% in Jul 2026
Rand / US dollar
ECB reference rate · 19 Oct 2026
R16.43to $1
−0.64% vs 12 Oct (R16.54)
National house price growth
(Lightstone Index, YoY) · Sep 2026
5.9%
Average national rent
(All residential properties) · Q2 2026
R9,715per month
+4.6% YoY (Q2 2026)
National rental growth
(All residential properties, YoY) · Q2 2026
5.2%
+0.5pp QoQ (Q2 2026)
Western Cape rental growth
(Private residential, YoY) · Q2 2026
9.7%
+0.6pp QoQ (Q2 2026)
SA REIT sector
Total return (September 2026)
+1.6%
SA REIT sector
Total return (2026 YTD)
+4.0%
SA REIT distribution growth
Rolling 12 months (YoY) · Sep 2026
11.09%
SA REIT forward yield
(SA REIT Association) · Sep 2026
7.03%