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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.
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.
Township and rural shopping centres are extending their lead over suburban malls on returns while becoming the primary formal, serviced space in many communities, according to Absa's MSCI South Africa index and industry players.
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 North Gauteng High Court has declared unconstitutional the section of the Property Practitioners Act that made a valid BEE certificate a condition for issuing Fidelity Fund Certificates to estate agents and agencies.
Developer Tricolt has appointed hospitality operator Totalstay to manage aparthotel rental pools at its 391-unit The Madison in Cape Town and the 527-unit Olympus Sandton in Johannesburg.
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.
The Mpumalanga High Court threw out three unopposed repossession bids by Standard Bank, FirstRand and Nqaba Finance and ordered that the lenders not pass their legal costs on to customers.
Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso told Parliament the latest figures date from a 2017 audit that found foreign nationals owned 0.56% of South Africa's land, and that new legislation on foreign landholding is being drafted.