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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 in the property sector. This podcast offers in depth coverage of the South African property. The sectors include commercial (office, retail and industrial/logistics) and 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 publishes two episodes per month.
Occasionally English South Africa Business
105 Episodes
12 – 32

R8bn Oxford Parks is changing the face of Rosebank

André Gouws, managing director of Intaprop, which is leading the Oxford Parks mega mixed-used development in the trendy Johannesburg precinct, says there’s still big interest in the area, even for new office space.
22 Jan 14 min

South Coast property market benefits from Blue Flag beaches

Mohammed Amra of Pam Golding Properties, who is the area principal for Port Shepstone and Margate, shares his local market insights and says this part of the KwaZulu-Natal coast should not be overshadowed by the North Coast.
18 Dec 2023 17 min

More Cape Town developments in Divercity’s sights

Following the launch of its first R300m residential property project in the Mother City, Divercity Urban Property Fund CEO Carel Kleynhans says that with the city seeing a significant influx of new people and “good-quality affordable accommodation being quite hard to come by” – he hopes to be announcing more…
11 Dec 2023 14 min

Delta CEO Bongi Masinga talks turnaround plans

‘For me, the immediate challenge now that we've built a good base, is to make sure that trajectory actually begins in terms of how we are maintaining our properties; that speaks to facilities. How we manage the costs, speaks to our capex. Are we doing what we're supposed to do…
4 Dec 2023 18 min

'We won’t see a residential property boom for a long time yet’

Chris Tyson, founder and chairperson of fast-growing real estate agency group Tyson Properties, shares his insights on the market, noting that while ‘conditions will improve based on supply and demand’, with 2024 being an election year, ‘historically nothing much happens in the property market in an election year’.
13 Nov 2023 14 min

Office property sector needs 3% GDP growth to rebound

‘That's what we need to bring enough new tenants into our market to create that demand, to mop up that space over time, because the quantum of space is really, really big at the moment – we are looking at a million square metres of [vacant] office space in Sandton…
6 Nov 2023 18 min

Interest rates and other trends affecting SA’s housing market

Jonathan Kohler, CEO of Landsdowne Property Group, shares insights into the current residential property market, including the impact of higher interest rates, buy-to-let, rental trends, and the innovative new concept of lease-to-buy schemes.
31 Oct 2023 18 min

Hyprop on the up?

Despite retail property stocks also being affected by poor sentiment in the listed property sector, and Hyprop trading at a huge discount, its CEO Morne Wilken seems optimistic, with the fund buying a R1.6bn mall in Cape Town and getting a credit rating upgrade in the same week.
24 Oct 2023 13 min

Why Investec Property Fund rebranded to Burstone

'‘It has been a busy 12 months, and certainly transformative. There are two rather large transactions that were completed almost simultaneously – the internalisation of the management companies, and the acquisition of the majority of our joint-ventures stake in the European platform,” notes Burstone Group CEO Andrew Wooler.
10 Oct 2023 17 min

Keillen Ndlovu on listed property being ‘out of favour’

‘The sector, in terms of sentiment, I would say has probably hit that low. And even looking at valuations as well, the discounts to NAV [Net asset values] are at the highest levels that we've seen at 40%-plus. So take out the Covid era or lockdown days, this sector is…
3 Oct 2023 19 min

Revenge travel? Cape Town's international tourism boom

‘When we looked at the latest figures around airport arrivals, international tourist arrivals have already surpassed the 2019 numbers – the pre-Covid numbers – and we're not even into our high season yet’ – Enver Duminy, CEO of Cape Town Tourism.
26 Sep 2023 17 min

Talking tourism with Mmatšatši Ramawela

The big challenge in the industry ‘at the moment in the country is more the leadership issues, because in anything that is not being led, you get things going into disarray. So for me what I find very difficult to swallow is the leadership across [the board], but more so…
12 Sep 2023 28 min

Talking tourism: Saantha Naidu of Coastlands Hotels & Resorts

The founder and CEO of Durban’s largest private-owned and independently-run hotel group speaks about the chain’s growth, its latest R800m mixed-use development in Umhlanga Ridge, prospects for tourism in Surf City post the floods and riots, and why his company doesn’t plan to expand beyond KZN.
5 Sep 2023 16 min
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