by Daan Steenkamp | Jan 28, 2025 | Business, Economics, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Property Trends: The stagnant South African housing market is showing signs of recovery outside of Cape Town, with predictions of a possible price boom in the offing. Ooba reported a 30% surge in home loan applications for November. If our interest rate is cut,...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 14, 2022 | Business, Economics, Practice, Snippet
Economy You might recall that I had, last week, made a note on the risk of world stagflation having increased. Our economy is picking up but so is our inflation rate. The problem is that the pick-up of our economy is modest, if that and inflation is certainly not...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 10, 2022 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics A burning topic is the petrol price and its potential effect upon our economy. On the one hand there is a push for the state to drop the taxes which almost doubles the price of our fuel; on the other is the hard fact that our government is short on income...
by Daan Steenkamp | Nov 18, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics There is some good news to report on and for this the Prez should be lauded even though much of this is not directly attributable to his leadership: Our new Minister of Finance stuck to the expenditure containment script and even stated that he prefers job...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jul 6, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics C Ryan: ”… the JSE Top 40, in red, looks decidedly pedestrian against the S&P 500, which returned 278% over 10 years against the Top 40’s 28.3%.” Our Reserve Bank governor held, a week-and-a-half ago, that there is a case for lowering the banks...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 21, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics You would, no doubt, have seen that our economy is now predicted to grow at some 5% this year. The interesting thing about this is that the economists, who so predict, say that we should be able to maintain that momentum – especially if the government is...
