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Property

Adapting real estate investment strategies to economic shifts

3 Mar 2025

#MiningIndaba: Alternative financing is the new frontier for Africa

Markets & Investment

#MiningIndaba: Alternative financing is the new frontier for Africa

6 Feb 2025

Source: Supplied. Christo de Wit, Luno’s country manager for South Africa.

Financial Services

Luno’s predictions for 2025's crypto landscape

15 Jan 2025

Source: Supplied. Grant Phillips, Group chief executive officer of e4.

Residential Property

Digital disruption, bond switching to make a big impact on home loans in 2025

31 Dec 2024

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Hospitality

Shawu's Hills Wildlife Estate: Own a piece of your African dream

8 Oct 2024

Property investments will be more attractive once interest rate cuts start to roll

Markets & Investment

Property investments will be more attractive once interest rate cuts start to roll

Issued by Catchwords 11 Sep 2024

Banking

Standard Bank sees increased home-loan approvals as demand resurfaces

Toni Anderson 22 Aug 2024

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

Yen plunges to 38-year low vs dollar as markets brace for Japan intervention

Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss 27 Jun 2024

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Residential Property

Property sector will rebound after elections

27 May 2024

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Corporate & Commercial Law

What fund managers want... and other investment trends

Ashford Nyatsumba and Michael Denenga 23 Apr 2024

Source: Supplied. Sanan Pillay, portfolio manager at Sanlam Investments Multi-Manager.

Financial Services

The evolution and opportunity of private debt

Sanan Pillay 19 Apr 2024

Source: Supplied. Hayley Ivins-Downes, head of digital at Lightstone.

Trends

#BizTrends2024: Investment opportunities abound amidst changing buyer behaviour

Hayley Ivins-Downes 17 Jan 2024

Source: Reuters.

Economy

For investors, 2024 is the year of transition to a new economic order

Paritosh Bansal 4 Jan 2024

Eduvos’s funding partnerships open doors of opportunity

Higher Education

Eduvos’s funding partnerships open doors of opportunity

Issued by Eduvos 18 Dec 2023

Residential Property

TPN: Renters paying, escalations slowing

15 Nov 2023

Banking

FNB launches groundbreaking 'nav» Earth' feature

17 Oct 2023

Ford Ranger production line at the Silverton assembly plant. Source: Quickpic

Automotive

Increased cost-of-living is erasing vehicle sales recovery

Melissa Murialdo 16 Oct 2023

Source: Reuters.

Economy

Dollar shrugs off Fitch's US credit rating downgrade

Rae Wee 2 Aug 2023

Banking

SA youth are saving, Nedbank research shows

27 Jun 2023

Grand infrastructure projects aren't a magic bullet for industrial development - insights from Ghana and Kenya

Infrastructure & Utilities

Grand infrastructure projects aren't a magic bullet for industrial development - insights from Ghana and Kenya

Seth Schindler and Tom Gillespie 22 May 2023

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

Yen dips to 15-year low

Kevin Buckland and Alun John 2 May 2023

Increased demand for rental stock expected to drive rental escalations

Residential Property

Increased demand for rental stock expected to drive rental escalations

26 Apr 2023

Why the concern over a world full of debt?

Markets & Investment

Why the concern over a world full of debt?

Adriaan Pask 24 Mar 2023

Homeowners remain hopeful of interest rate nearing its peak

Residential Property

Homeowners remain hopeful of interest rate nearing its peak

17 Mar 2023

Big tech is firing employees by the thousands. Why? And how worried should we be?

Technology

Big tech is firing employees by the thousands. Why? And how worried should we be?

Nathalie Collins, Jeff Volkheimer, Paul Haskell-Dowland 15 Feb 2023

How the latest interest rate hike will affect your bond repayment

Markets & Investment

How the latest interest rate hike will affect your bond repayment

Samuel Seeff 27 Jan 2023

Q4 2022 home loan approval rates remain strong despite rising interest rates - Ooba

Residential Property

Q4 2022 home loan approval rates remain strong despite rising interest rates - Ooba

26 Jan 2023

#BizTrends2023: Pockets of opportunity in a tough residential property market

Trends

#BizTrends2023: Pockets of opportunity in a tough residential property market

Hayley Ivins-Downes 9 Jan 2023

How interest rate hikes impact the homebuying market

Residential Property

How interest rate hikes impact the homebuying market

20 Dec 2022

7 residential property trends to look out for in 2023

Trends

7 residential property trends to look out for in 2023

14 Dec 2022

Home sales soar in Joburg's northern suburbs as semigrating buyers add to local demand

Residential Property

Home sales soar in Joburg's northern suburbs as semigrating buyers add to local demand

11 Nov 2022

Here's what homebuyers are looking for post pandemic

Residential Property

Here's what homebuyers are looking for post pandemic

31 Oct 2022

JLL reports varying fortunes across local property market

Markets & Investment

JLL reports varying fortunes across local property market

31 Aug 2022

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Residential Property

Home buying market still strong despite rocky economic climate

25 Jul 2022

Gen Z, millennial homebuyers on the rise, according to BetterBond

Residential Property

Gen Z, millennial homebuyers on the rise, according to BetterBond

17 Jun 2022

5 ways to enter the residential property market

Residential Property

5 ways to enter the residential property market

13 May 2022

Q1 2022 Re/Max report shows subsiding activity in SA housing market

Residential Property

Q1 2022 Re/Max report shows subsiding activity in SA housing market

22 Apr 2022

Demand for retail space on the rise - Q1 2022 FNB Property Broker Survey

Retail & Hospitality Property

Demand for retail space on the rise - Q1 2022 FNB Property Broker Survey

John Loos 21 Apr 2022

Residential market bouncing back but overall trend still negative

Residential Property

Residential market bouncing back but overall trend still negative

7 Apr 2022

Conversion of commercial property into residential units has accelerated in the Covid years

Markets & Investment

Conversion of commercial property into residential units has accelerated in the Covid years

Malusi Mthuli 28 Mar 2022

Residential market sees uptick in first-time buyers, decline in repeat buyers

Residential Property

Residential market sees uptick in first-time buyers, decline in repeat buyers

23 Mar 2022

What the Russia-Ukraine conflict means for SA's housing market

Residential Property

What the Russia-Ukraine conflict means for SA's housing market

Carl Coetzee 10 Mar 2022

Dubai tops Knight Frank PIRI 100 for 2021, luxury housing boom expected to endure

Markets & Investment

Dubai tops Knight Frank PIRI 100 for 2021, luxury housing boom expected to endure

2 Mar 2022

Repo rate hikes - no reason for property owners, buyers to panic, says FNB

Residential Property

Repo rate hikes - no reason for property owners, buyers to panic, says FNB

1 Feb 2022

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Agriculture

Rising interest rates, wetness place dampener on potentially excellent agriculture season

Paul Makube 28 Jan 2022

#BizTrends2022: Rental property market to remain subdued heading into 2022

Trends

#BizTrends2022: Rental property market to remain subdued heading into 2022

Michelle Dickens 14 Jan 2022