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 | JAMES STENT Work on the final phases of the District Six restitution project has begun. The national Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development is having the ground cleared and rubble removal as mandated by the courts... Read |
| Markets & Investment |
 | JOHN JACK Contrary to popular opinion, the new repo rate will result in investors with solid balance sheets lining up for opportunities... Read |
 | JLL's recently released 2019-2020 South Africa Investment report provides insights on key investment trends observed following the impact of Covid-19... Read |
| Mixed-Use Property |
 | Having achieved six-star Green Star Public and Education Building (PEB) certification in May this year, Balwin Properties' Reid Lifestyle Centre is also targeting a Net-zero Carbon Level 2 rating... Read |
 | Construction has resumed on the Old Cape Quarter luxury mixed-use development, located in De Waterkant in Cape Town, following the required pause on work during previous lockdown levels... Read |
| Residential Property |
 | When it comes time to sell, property owners are often caught off-guard by the expenses that come with selling property... Read |
 | ISSUED BY LEAP COMMUNICATIONS Retired South Africans who own homes but are cash-strapped may now apply for a loan, or "reverse mortgage", suggested in a recent policy paper by the World Bank as a way to supplement pension income... Read |
 | DR ANDREW GOLDING The further reduction of the repo rate by 25 basis points to an all-time low of 3.5% takes the prime interest rate down to 7%... Read |
 | SAMUEL SEEFF The decision by the Reserve Bank to cut the repo rate by a further 25 basis points to 3.5%, reducing prime and the base home loan rate to a further historic low of 7% is welcome relief for the property market and households... Read |
| Retail Property |
 | SINDY PETERS To help restart the economy and pay it forward, Liberty Two Degrees (L2D) launched its #CreateTomorrow campaign... Read |
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 | MILLS SOKO The remarkable economic transformation of Asia in recent decades has attracted global attention. It has ignited scholarly and policy debates about the region's development models and strategies... Read |
 | SAM KINYANJUI & SHARON FONN The Covid-19 pandemic has put global emergency preparedness under sharp scrutiny. It's also placed national health systems' capacity to predict and respond to major emergencies under the microscope... Read |
 | GRACE C WU & RANJIT DESHMUKH Seven years ago the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) proposed the Inga 3 - a 4.8GW hydropower project on the Congo River - with great fanfare... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Melun Jeptha noticed two empty plots of land that were being used as dumping grounds and decided to do something about it... Read |
 | A virtual business networking community has been launched to offer local businesses hard hit by Covid-19 a much-needed resource to help keep trading. Read |
 | Employment and Labour Deputy Minister Boitumelo Booi says the Covid-19 Temporary Employers/ Employee Relief Fund, set up to help those who found themselves out of work due to lockdown, will be extended to August... Read |
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