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The Property Pod

Hosted by Moneyweb's deputy editor Suren Naidoo, The Property Pod is South Africa's premier property investor podcast, with insights from industry executives. This podcast offers in-depth coverage of the South African property industry. The sectors covered include the commercial (office, retail and industrial/logistics) residential, and specialist sectors such as storage and healthcare. Each episode will cover industry developments, sector performance, trends as well as new policies/ laws affecting the sector from both local government and national government level. This podcast is published weekly.
Weekly English South Africa Business · Business News
152 Episodes
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Joburg cleaning up its act ahead of G20?

Stephen Du Preez, founder of LocalAbode, an alliance partner of the Jozi My Jozi initiative, says the cleanup of Joburg’s CBD needs to look beyond the summit and have long-term sustainability.
3 Mar 23 min

Business-rescue-hit Urban Lime’s properties up for sale

Nexus Property Group co-founder Elias Tzouvanni – whose company has been appointed to handle the sale of the properties through private tender – shares insights on the portfolio of largely regenerated properties in Cape Town and Durban being sold.
24 Feb 15 min

Menlyn Park, Pavillion owner upbeat on mega mall growth

Malose Kekana, CEO of Pareto Limited, says the group saw double-digital foot count growth over the recent festive season, with trading density growth of 6% at its malls across the country. He also talks expansion plans, with a refocus on SA.
17 Feb 15 min

Sandton on the rise again?

Neil Schloss, head of asset management at Growthpoint Properties in SA, shares the latest insights on the group’s Sandton Summit mixed-used precinct, where it is set to build the new R2bn Olympus Sandton twin-tower luxury apartment development and has grander plans.
3 Feb 25 min

Expropriation Act will cause uncertainty in property market – Sapoa

Neil Gopal, CEO of the SA Property Owners Association, says: “It’s clear that the matter is headed to the courts” even though Sapoa itself is not planning legal action. While expropriation is not new, the organisation is not happy with two aspects of the new act.
27 Jan 12 min

How Gidon Novick is ‘rocking the retired life’

No, Novick who’s best known for his ventures in the SA airline industry, is not retiring just yet. But he has ventured into the retirement real estate market, with an innovative enterprise called Circle Senior Living.
20 Jan 19 min

What's keeping Ben Kodisang busy

The founder and CEO of ALT Capital Partners shares the latest insights on the growing group, which largely targets the rural and township convenience retail property market. A one-time Sapoa president and former MD of Old Mutual Property, he also talks about his more than two decades in the industry.
13 Jan 27 min

Property stock picks and more from Stanlib’s Nesi Chetty

The SA Reit sector remained the top-performing asset class in 2024. We take another look at the performance of JSE-listed property stocks, and expectations for 2025 … This time with the fund manager and head of property at Stanlib.
6 Jan 30 min

Redefine sees further upside in retail

Nashil Chotoki, retail national asset manager at Redefine Properties, shares insights on the improving performance of malls heading into the peak festive season.
16 Dec 2024 16 min

SA’s Neighbourgood story: From Covid-19 startup to US expansion

Murray Clark, co-founder and CEO of Cape Town-based Neighbourgood, talks about the group’s growth from being ‘born out of the pandemic’ in July 2020, to becoming one of SA’s most innovative and fast-growing property businesses in the ‘nomad space’ of co-living and co-working.
9 Dec 2024 26 min

Why invest in Nelson Mandela Bay?

It’s the ‘Bay of Opportunity’ says Denise van Huyssteen, CEO of Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber. She shares insights into major investments in the Eastern Cape's biggest metro city, what’s happening on the property front, as well as the challenges and future prospects.
2 Dec 2024 26 min

Afrirent on big real estate expansion with R1.3bn Cape Town ICC hotel

Senzo Tsabedze shares his inspiring journey from humble beginnings in Mpumalanga to leading Afrirent Holdings, a rising property group that has just secured the prime lease from City of Cape Town to develop a six-star hotel and mixed-use tower next to one of SA’s busiest convention centres.
25 Nov 2024 14 min

Affordable housing: Addressing the large demand/supply gap

‘Private and public sector collaboration is important, and we are looking to hopefully see more of that in the coming years,’ says Vanessa Murray, divisional executive for property finance at Nedbank CIB, following the recent 16th annual IHS Affordable Housing Conference in Johannesburg.
18 Nov 2024 18 min

Residential property investor interest wanes

Hayley Ivins Downes, managing executive for real estate at Lightstone, shares insights from a recent report on buy-to-let investor activity in the SA market, and expectations into 2025.
11 Nov 2024 16 min
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