6 Aug 2013

Property & Real Estate

MTV lives on

While MTV no longer stands for Music Television, the essence of the 32-year-old channel lives on, supported by a shiny new market segment - an audience that requires much more than music videos. In order to keep them satiated, the channel has launched its first localised interactive magazine programme for South Africa's youth - MTV Choice; it's been dubbed "pop-tastic"...

Want to start your own business? Easier said than done, I'm afraid - ask any successful entrepreneur about the trials and tribulations they experienced before finding the winning formula. Problemio.com, creator of business planning apps, has outlined five steps to starting a business.

Even if you have been in HR management for some time, it's not easy to pick out a fraudulent medical certificate. Once you have, or have your suspicions, what do you do then? Lia Marus advises on the best course of action in "How to deal with fraudulent medical certificates".

I, and I suspect many others, have a severe case of arms deal fatigue. We're going on two years since the commission was set up to determine whether there was any corruption involved in procurement contracts that were awarded in the '90s. The public hearings, were underway in Pretoria, this week, but have since been postponed for two weeks to allow for the declassification of certain documents. Here's hoping it'll be smooth sailing from there on...

Sindy Peters, Group Head: Content

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Weekly top stories

Annuity buys Clarins SA's properties
[Zeenat Moorad] Annuity Properties‚ which listed on the JSE in May last year‚ said on Monday, 29 July 2013, that it would buy Clarins SA's property portfolio. Clarins SA is a subsidiary of international luxury cosmetics company. Read more >>
New convenient social media platform for managed communities
Wooing the market
[John Roberts]


Property & Real Estate
Office smart is business smart
Today, smart businesses are realising that in the current competitive market, having the right office space is not just a "nice to have" - it's a passport to better business. Read more >>


Commercial
Investec's first quarter inflows of £900m
Investec said on Thursday (1 August) that total operating income (excluding depreciation on operating leased assets) for the quarter ended June was 4% ahead higher than the previous year. It's first quarter inflows reached £900m. Read more >>

Nairobi's Garden City development breaks ground
Garden City, Nairobi's flagship retail, residential and commercial property development, broke ground recently at a celebration ceremony in the presence of more than 100 distinguished guests, including the Governor of Nairobi, Dr Evans Kidero. Read more >>


Property Management
New convenient social media platform for managed communities
A new social media platform, that allows members of managed communities to easily communicate, has been launched in South Africa, and is set to change the way body corporates and homeowner associations carry out their functions. Read more >>

Green retrofits - a consideration for today's industrial tenant?
With sustainability acknowledged as one of the major trends shaping our world today and tomorrow, should tenants consider retrofitting the buildings they occupy with green technologies? Read more >>


Residential
Answers needed regarding FLISP subsidy programme
When, in early 2012, President Jacob Zuma in his State of the Nation Address announced that the Department of Human Settlement would be instituting a finance-linked individual subsidy programme for first-time home buyers, there was a sudden influx of hopeful potential home buyers keen to make use of the programme. Read more >>

A second property remains a prudent investment - Hutchison
It is still a good investment to purchase a second property as a holiday home or for buy-to-let purposes, despite the current economic climate. Read more >>

Stock constraints in home buying and rental markets a key theme - FNB
Growth in residential rental and home buying demand is catching up with slower supply growth of residential stock. Read more >>

Wooing the market
[John Roberts] There can be few people who doubt the residential property market currently favours buyers and that sellers, faced with extensive competition from alternative options, must do everything possible to present their homes in the most appealing fashion. Read more >>


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