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Umhlanga development plot listed below the suburb's average home price

A 1.9-hectare plot in Umhlanga has come to market at R2.95 million, below the R3.6 million average sale price for erven in the KwaZulu-Natal coastal suburb, according to a Private Property listing.

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Tenants evacuated from ten-storey Riruta block after crack triggers enforcement notice

Nairobi City County has ordered all occupants out of a ten-storey apartment block on Kabiria Road in Riruta Satellite, Dagoretti South, after a loud bang and a large wall crack raised structural safety fears.

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Jim Ovia moves into Lagos luxury property with two residential towers

The former Zenith Bank chairman is developing two Lagos residential projects through Quantum Luxury Properties, with apartments priced from $1.85 million and $2.8 million.

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How Martin Venter turned a R20m Cape farm into the R15bn Val de Vie estate

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.

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R95,000-a-month Waterkloof Heights lease fraud case postponed to February 2027

Four accused alleged to have used falsified documents to secure a residential lease in Waterkloof Heights, Pretoria, will return to court in February 2027 while the State completes financial investigations.

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Gauteng applicant waits 29 years for an RDP house as housing register passes a million

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.

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Lekki Phase 1 owner petitions IGP over demolition of N1bn property despite court order

A Lagos businessman has asked the Inspector General of Police, the Police Service Commission and the National Assembly to act against a senior police officer he accuses of supervising the demolition of his Lekki Phase 1 property while a court order was in force.

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Garden Route land under R300,000 survives only in Heidelberg and Haarlem

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.

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Ugandan innovator turns agricultural waste into cement-free earth bricks for cheaper homes

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.