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An analysis of Stats SA's residential property price index against the Auditor-General's latest municipal audit outcomes shows Cape Town leading and Buffalo City lagging, though several metros break the pattern.
Former lawyer Martin Venter bought a neglected wine farm on the Berg River for about R20 million in 2002; Val de Vie is now a 917-hectare gated estate whose developer put its asset value at about R15 billion.
Rosinah Nketu registered for a government house in 1997 and is still in a backyard shack, while Gauteng's housing needs register carries more than 1.13 million names and the province says it cannot set an allocation timeframe.
With the Garden Route's average sale price at R2.5 million and supply down 18 percent year on year, buyers seeking property below R300,000 are left with two small towns at opposite ends of the region.
Research on Mbeya District finds infrastructure development, population growth and competition between farming, livestock and mining are driving conflicts over family-owned land, with informal settlement mechanisms easing the pressure.
Prime residential markets in Cape Town, Lagos, Accra, Nairobi and Cairo are pulling in private capital while shallow mortgage systems leave most urban households to build incrementally, according to a bne IntelliNews analysis.
Makerere-trained quantity surveyor Leslie Kaneene is developing CoolBricks, a bio-stabilised earth brick that replaces cement and firing with local soils and farm waste, and is now being tested through the Housing Finance Bank Zimba Challenge.
Younger purchasers now make up about 28% of buyers in Potchefstroom, where student accommodation demand and North-West University's new medical school are reshaping prices from Die Bult to Baillie Park.
A Dar es Salaam forum examined Tanzania's estimated 3.8 million-unit housing shortage, with officials and financiers calling for locally manufactured building materials, infrastructure-led planning and predictable taxation.