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TMG Holding chief executive Hisham Talaat Moustafa says Egypt's property market is normalising after the inflation-driven surge of 2023-2024, pointing to a 99.6% collection rate while acknowledging stress among smaller developers.
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.
The Institution of Surveyors of Kenya has flagged drainage, basement and roof risks for apartments and homes ahead of expected El Nino rains, urging owners and managers to inspect and maintain buildings early.
Egypt's Industrial Development Bank and the Urban Development Fund have signed a cooperation protocol to provide financing for citizens buying units in urban development projects in governorate capitals and major cities.
Investment buyers accounted for a record 14% of South African home loan applications earlier this year, with more than 30% of Western Cape applications tied to buy-to-let purchases, according to lending data.
A new Codera Analytics review of prices and rents in Gauteng and the Western Cape shows higher gross rental yields in Gauteng, where cheaper entry prices give investors more income per rand spent.
The number of purely commercial developments in Cape Town's record R12.8-billion Central City Improvement District construction pipeline doubled year on year, according to the CCID's State of Cape Town Central City Report 2025.
Stakeholders argue that rising construction-material costs, not a shortage of building effort, are deepening Nigeria's housing deficit, and want incentives for domestic manufacturing.
Uganda's lands minister says the government is fast-tracking the Real Estate Bill to professionalise the property sector, protect the public from fraudulent transactions and improve access to housing finance.