How World Cup property predicictions are panning out
Five years ago property experts predicted that the housing market would flourish, and prices would soar, with increases of up to 50 percent in 2010.
[Read More]Posted at 09:21AM Jan 25, 2010 by Editor in Residential | Comments[8]
Cape Town tops desirable list
If status is important to you and money is no object, then the finest possible place to live is Cape Town - Steenberg golf estate, to be precise.
[Read More]Posted at 09:18AM Jan 25, 2010 by Editor in Residential |
Just 'petty cash' as foreigner snaps up baroness's property
A British businessman bought the Constantia home and the adjacent stand belonging to the infamous Baroness Alexander von Maltzahn for R17 million and other bidders spent about R1m on everything from jewels to Gucci bags at a Cape Town auction yesterday.
[Read More]Posted at 09:12AM Jan 25, 2010 by Editor in Auctions | Comments[1]
'Wind is cheapest' - Mainstream boss
The head of an Irish renewable energy company planning to invest e850 million (R9.1 billion) in wind farms in South Africa has taken on Eskom executives for saying that renewable energy is expensive.
[Read More]Posted at 09:07AM Jan 25, 2010 by Editor in Residential | Comments[4]
Blue Flag Status: what does it mean?
Blue Flag Status is awarded to beaches that excel in the fields of safety, cleanliness, provision of amenities and maintenance of environmental standards.
[Read More]Posted at 09:01AM Jan 25, 2010 by Editor in Residential | Comments[1]
Market has adapted to tough times
The past year saw property sales fall off by at least 50 percent, an extreme scarcity of bank loans and a marginal fall-off in prices, which made trading conditions extremely tough and left agencies competing in a market that halved overnight, Dr Andrew Golding, CE of the Pam Golding Property (PGP), told journalists at a media event last year.
[Read More]Posted at 08:52AM Jan 25, 2010 by Editor in Market |
KwaZulu-Natal plan logjam hits developers
Some property developers face liquidation because the KZN Surveyor-General, whose office processes property plans, is sitting on almost R3 billion of work as a result of labour go-slows.
[Read More]Posted at 08:41AM Jan 25, 2010 by Editor in Market | Comments[1]