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A 'For Sale' sign in front of modern white houses with Table Mountain and the Cape Town city bowl behind, under the headline 'SA housing market holds firm as banks compete for buyers' and panels reading 5% house price growth year-on-year, -0.83% best bank discounts since 2009 and 2.1% home loan applications up quarter-on-quarter

By Neale PetersenOctober 26, 2026

ooba's Q3 2026 data: house prices up 5% to R1.76m, September bond discounts at prime minus 0.83% (best since 2009) and investors at 13.1% of applications.

Lephalale Mall: large teal letters spelling Lephalale Mall on a stone gabion wall in front of the single-storey centre, with Game, Wimpy, Checkers, Crazy Plastics and Rochester signage under a blue sky

Commercial

R2bn Dipula - Moolman deal clears key regulatory hurdle

The Competition Commission recommends approving a major part of Dipula's R2.04bn purchase of nine retail properties from Moolman Group and its co-investors.

Architectural render of Pinelands Village on a street corner: a Checkers store with a patterned green facade, outdoor seating and planters, shoppers on the pavement and cars on the surrounding roads

Commercial

Rapfund's new Pinelands retail hub lands Checkers, Dis-Chem

Rapfund Investments is developing the 6,337m² Pinelands Village shopping centre in Cape Town, anchored by Checkers and Dis-Chem with 26 shops and restaurants.

Wooden blocks spelling REIT beside tiles for real estate, investment, trust and tax benefits, books labelled insurance, property portfolio, tax planning and investment strategy, a REIT conversion report and pen, with a glass office building and Table Mountain at sunset behind

Commercial

New REIT rules open the door for insurers' property assets

Insurer-owned unlisted property companies can now qualify as REITs, but strict thresholds, fund-level tax and IFRS 17 make conversion a careful calculation.

Norbert Sasse, former Group CEO of Growthpoint Properties, in a light blue open-collared shirt on a balcony above the V&A Waterfront harbour, with Table Mountain and Lion's Head behind him

People in Property

Norbert Sasse: The man who built a R160bn property giant

Norbert Sasse looks back on 25 years that took Growthpoint from near liquidation to a R160bn property group, the crises it survived and his succession.

A Community Schemes Ombud Service (CSOS) sign beside binders labelled governance, financials, levies, rules and communication, wooden house blocks marked parking, penalties, pets and people, a gavel and a dispute resolution notebook, with apartment blocks behind

Asset ManagementOctober 23, 2026

Why Community Schemes end up in CSOS disputes

Aerial view of Central Blue Shopping Centre in Blue Downs, Cape Town: a long single-storey row of shops behind a full car park, with a KFC drive-through in the foreground and housing stretching to the hills under a grey sky

CommercialOctober 23, 2026

Abland opens fully let 8,000m² retail hub in Cape Town

Quintin Rossi, CEO of Spear REIT, smiling in a light grey blazer and black open-collared shirt in a modern lobby with vertical light panels behind him

CommercialOctober 22, 2026

Spear REIT beats forecasts as R8.8bn portfolio expands

Composite image of National Treasury's 2026 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, a fuel nozzle in a car's tank, a wooden model house beside stacks of coins and a set of house keys, and a city skyline at sunset

Research ReportsOctober 22, 2026

Budget relief won't fix SA's homeownership crisis

The Maestro Sky Lounge at an Africrest development: a residents' lounge with café tables, orange sofas and a pool table, paper flower lights under a wooden slatted ceiling and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city

ResidentialOctober 22, 2026

Why community is becoming rental property's secret weapon

A wooden model house beside rising stacks of coins and a set of house keys on a desk, with a 'Home loan approved' form and a pen in front and a city skyline with suburban homes at sunset behind

FinanceOctober 22, 2026

Why now could be the right time to buy property

Composite image of a South African flag, stacks of coins under a red percentage sign with a downward arrow, a rising chart, a fuel nozzle in a car's tank and a city skyline above modern homes at sunset

FinanceOctober 21, 2026

Budget relief welcomed, but property needs lower rates

Aerial view of the Massmart Distribution Centre in Brackengate, Cape Town, its large warehouse roof covered in rows of solar panels, with loading bays and roads around it

CommercialOctober 20, 2026

Redefine's R106m solar project powers Cape Town properties

Rows of granite headstones with flowers and small statues on a green lawn, under trees and a flowering jacaranda, at one of Calgro M3's memorial parks

ResidentialOctober 20, 2026

Calgro's Memorial Parks surge as housing growth stalls

Artist's impression of a large Shree Property Holdings logistics warehouse with loading bays, trucks and parking, beside a road in an industrial area under a blue sky

CommercialOctober 20, 2026

Shree unveils R2bn Durban Industrial expansion

Illustrative image of Cape Town at sunset: Table Mountain behind the city, a glass office building and terrace, a logistics warehouse with trucks, new apartment blocks, and white arrows rising over the skyline

NewsOctober 19, 2026

SA Property’s next Growth Cycle: Where capital will flow

Illustrative image: a young man with a backpack on a balcony looks out over apartment blocks, office towers and a busy street at sunset, with mountains behind the city

FinanceOctober 19, 2026

The Right Property Can Build a Lasting Business

A long, white single-storey Melrose home with a green roof and a deep columned veranda, behind a wide lawn framed by mature trees, a garden bench and a lamp post

ResidentialOctober 19, 2026

R27m Melrose sale highlights Joburg's luxury demand

CommercialOctober 19, 2026

Growthpoint completes 18-year Industrial estate vision

Computer-generated image of the entrance to Newlyn Logistics Park in Gqeberha: a green and grey gatehouse canopy with the Newlyn Logistics Park sign, trucks and cars queuing at the boom gates

CommercialOctober 16, 2026

Newlyn’s 150,000m² Gqeberha Logistics Park takes shape

The stage at the NAMA 2026 National Conference at the CSIR International Convention Centre, with a large screen showing a slide for Marina Constas, Director, BBM Attorneys, and a sofa and armchairs on stage

Asset ManagementOctober 16, 2026

Community Schemes face a new era of accountability

A speaker presents on a stage at a GBCSA Green Building Convention, with a slide on typical business operating costs and a seated audience in the foreground under red lighting

NewsOctober 16, 2026

Green Building leaders unite to drive SA’s Green Revolution

Cape Town skyline and Table Mountain behind a row of wooden toy houses on rising stacks of coins, a red upward arrow above them and a For Sale sign on the right

ResidentialOctober 15, 2026

Cape Town’s housing boom is becoming an affordability crisis

Aerial view of an Equites logistics park at Atlantic Hills, Cape Town, with a large Puma-branded warehouse with rooftop solar panels beside the Puma office building and a motorway

CommercialOctober 15, 2026

Equites lifts dividend 5.1% as SA logistics investment surges

Collage of Cape Town: a hand holding a phone showing an Airbnb listing with Table Mountain behind, and a City of Cape Town sign for the draft short-term letting by-law above signposts for affordable housing, more homes, development, and jobs and growth

ResidentialOctober 14, 2026

Airbnb crackdown won’t solve Cape Town’s housing crisis

A construction worker in a hard hat and red shirt sitting on the timber frame of a new house, with a ladder beside him and sun through the trees

ResidentialOctober 14, 2026

SA Housing market holds firm as new home supply slows

A colourful hand-painted signpost reading Soweto, with arrows to Hector Pieterson Museum, Mandela's House, Orlando Towers, Orlando Stadium and Desmond Tutu's house, in front of a South African flag and a blue sky

ResidentialOctober 13, 2026

Soweto’s Rental Boom: Investors target 12% yields

Split scene: a Johannesburg house with a To Let sign and the skyline on the left, a rental-income arrow pointing to Cape Town and Table Mountain, and a couple relaxing on a terrace overlooking the sea on the right

ResidentialOctober 13, 2026

The Joburg home paying for a Cape Town lifestyle

A worried homebuyer looks at his phone beside a laptop showing an urgent R250,000 bank transfer request, with a hooded cyber criminal in the background

FinanceOctober 12, 2026

Property Deposit Fraud: The risk every homebuyer must know

Deon Schlebusch of Big Talk Entertainment and Francois Vorster of IMS smiling beside a laptop showing ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity feeding an AI hub that returns properties for sale, estate agents and commercial property, with search questions about Cape Town, Sandton and Pretoria property above

TechnologyOctober 11, 2026

Is AI recommending your property business?

A couple on a Cape Town terrace look out over the city and Table Mountain, with a map of South Africa showing moves from Cape Town to the Cape Winelands and Whale Coast, wealth-planning books and circular insets of a villa, vineyards, financial papers, a family on a beach and a globe

FinanceOctober 12, 2026

SA’s changing Wealth Map: 7 financial moves before relocating

Tower cranes and scaffolding against a blue sky as construction gets under way at the Thrive Student Living student accommodation site in Berea, Durban

CommercialOctober 12, 2026

Growthpoint unlocks R102m for local businesses and jobs

Aerial view of a dense waterfront suburb of white and terracotta-roofed houses with solar panels, palm trees and a canal

ResidentialOctober 12, 2026

Is property still a safe investment in South Africa?

Data Hub

Full Snapshot

Repo rate (SARB)
Monetary Policy Committee rate · 26 Oct 2026
7.25%
+0.25pp on 25 Sep 2026
Prime lending rate
Standard bank variable rate · 26 Oct 2026
10.75%
+0.25pp on 25 Sep 2026
Inflation (CPI)
Consumer price index (YoY) · Sep 2026
4.5%
+0.1pp from 4.4% in Aug 2026
Rand / US dollar
ECB reference rate · 26 Oct 2026
R16.63to $1
+1.19% vs 19 Oct (R16.43)
National house price index
(Stats SA HPI, YoY) · May 2026
8.2%
National house price growth
(Lightstone Index, YoY) · Sep 2026
5.9%
Average national rent
(All residential properties) · Q2 2026
R9,715per month
+4.6% YoY (Q2 2026)
National rental growth
(All residential properties, YoY) · Q2 2026
5.2%
+0.5pp QoQ (Q2 2026)
SA REIT sector
Total return (September 2026)
+1.6%
SA listed property (J253)
(FTSE/JSE, September 2026)
−5.8%
Petrol 95 inland
(DMPR, 7 October 2026)
R30.25per litre
Diesel 0.05% wholesale inland
(DMPR, 7 October 2026)
R31.95per litre