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Two South Africans on the average take-home pay could qualify for a bond of about R1.5 million, just under what first-time buyers typically pay, but servicing it would consume more than a third of their combined household income, a new analysis shows.
The small coal-mining town of Hattingspruit in KwaZulu-Natal offers homes from under R500,000 in a town where crime has fallen steadily for a decade, but only a handful of sales are registered each year.
A Nigerian developer argues that cheap land on the outskirts of Lagos and Abuja cannot deliver affordable housing on its own, because developers still absorb infrastructure, construction and financing costs.
Organisers have called off the 2026 edition in its traditional format after weak developer participation, as Egyptian developers redirect marketing budgets towards project delivery and weigh returns on exhibition spending more closely.
A lawyer at the AmCham Kenya 2026 Business Summit proposed widening the definition of eligible real estate to include telco towers and data centres, and lowering the 25% free-float requirement that sponsors must meet.
Cape Town Central tops SAPS's first-quarter crime statistics with a 43.46% crime rate, yet property in the precinct sells above the national average, with prices softening only in the suburbs perceived as high-crime hotspots.
Average sale prices are trending down in nine Cape Town suburbs even as the wider city market keeps rising, with sectional-title sales dragging prices lower in areas such as Gardens, Mowbray and Wynberg.
Urbanist Edgar Pieterse told The Gathering 2026 that South Africa delivered an ambitious housing programme but failed to build liveable cities, and proposed three ways to change course.
Real estate developer David Assogba-Lissassi says the cost of bank finance, land, materials and labour, together with weak regulation, is stopping developers from delivering affordable homes in Nigeria.