by Daan Steenkamp | Jan 11, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Practice, Property, Snippet
Property Trends: Regular readers of property news will recall that especially (the average) South African residential property prices are in decline, when compared to our inflation rate. South Africans are not alone in this position, as may be seen from the following...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jan 1, 2025 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
PropertyTrends:Our residential rental market reflects the increasingly positive market outlook and stood at a record low vacancy rate of 5.07% in Q3/2024.Similarly, Growthpoint reports declining office rental vacancy space, stating that coastal regions outperform...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jan 1, 2025 | Business, Practice, Property, Snippet
PropertyTrendsFNB reports that fewer South Africans are immigrating out of the country of late with such dropping from 8 to 7% now, down from 14.2% in Q1 2019. It also says that there is an uptick in, especially, the affordable housing market, owing to stronger market...
by Daan Steenkamp | Nov 3, 2024 | Business, Practice, Property, Snippet
PropertyTrends: With inflation seemingly under control, the expectation is that more aggressive interest rate cuts will follow, which should stimulate our property market.The residential market has stabilised, with isolated spots showing real price increases, such as...
by Daan Steenkamp | Oct 13, 2024 | Business, Practice, Property, Snippet
Practice News Legal PractitionersDr Hlope has been in the news quite often of late; the MK party’s application for leave to appeal the decision that Hlope be prohibited from serving on the JSC will be heard on the first November.Dali Mpofu SC is a well-known...
by Daan Steenkamp | Sep 2, 2024 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy/businessTrendsA rising economic tide? Shakespeare could have been referring to our economy: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune…”It has been 14 years since our real economy has had a rising tide – but change is...
