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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
106 Episodes
32 – 52

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

Woman with grit: Shevira Bissessor of Gateway Real Estate Africa

Bissessor speaks about pushing the boundaries and making her mark in property and the male-dominated development industry in Africa. She also talks about her roles as COO of Gateway Real Estate Africa, and as head of ESG at London-listed Grit Real Estate Income Group.
22 Aug 2023 16 min

Meet rising real estate star Sarah Shezi

30-year-old Shezi, an estate manager at Cushman & Wakefield | Broll, is making waves in the commercial property industry and was recently named one of the Mail and Guardian's 200 Young South Africans for 2023.
1 Aug 2023 13 min

Profile: ‘CEE’ what Pieter Prinsloo is up to …

The CEO of Redefine Europe – a subsidiary of JSE-listed Redefine Properties – says the business ‘sees enough opportunity at the moment in Poland’ to keep it busy managing and growing its investments in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) market.
25 Jul 2023 16 min

How a deposit affects your home loan payments

Gavin Kelsey, COO of real estate agency group Just Property, shares insights on why it's important to save for a deposit for a house. This is especially important for first-time home buyers who are likely to find it tougher to get into the property market currently, with the 14-year-high interest…
18 Jul 2023 15 min

SA listed property still struggling

The sector 'underperformed a lot of the peer asset groups within the SA domestic landscape,' says Naeem Tilly of Sesfikile Capital. But he sees the sector stabilising, with 'a lot of the data coming out [showing] that vacancies are falling and rentals are starting to grow'.
11 Jul 2023 23 min

R15bn Westown developer bets on a ‘KZN Comeback’

Carlos Correia, CEO and founder of Fundamentum Property Group, speaks about why he is pushing ahead with development on the new mixed-used mini city in Shongweni, west of Durban, despite the riots that rocked the province in 2021.
4 Jul 2023 22 min

Joburg needs the finest people to lead the city – Malose Kekana

The Sapoa president and Pareto CEO questions ‘Mickey Mouse' activities he is seeing in SA’s biggest city, shares insight into Pareto’s growth as a black-empowered property group and speaks frankly about dysfunctional local government being the industry’s biggest bugbear.
27 Jun 2023 23 min

Jannie Moolman on running a successful family property business

The chairperson of Pretoria-based Moolman Group, which owns 1.2m square metres of commercial property, explains how the family-run business has grown over the past 50 years and why ‘it's not a freebie for family members’ that join the group.
20 Jun 2023 12 min

‘The buzz is definitely back’ in Sandton

Elaine Jack, city improvement district manager of SA’s financial and corporate hub – the Sandton Central Management District – shares insights and updates on happenings and advances in the precinct over the years, especially post-Covid.
13 Jun 2023 22 min

Radisson’s African hotel investment safari

Africa is a big continent. When you look at it, not every country has the same potential in term of expansion. We have defined four or five key focus countries. These include South Africa and Nigeria, Morocco and Egypt’ – Ramsey Rankoussi, Radisson Hotel Group’s vice-president of development for Africa…
30 May 2023 18 min

Mega malls up for sale in Rebosis business rescue

‘The intention of the business rescue process is to see that we can rectify the loan-to-values as far as possible. It's very important to sell properties at the best value possible, to reduce (the group’s) debt levels,’ says Jacques du Toit, one of the joint business-rescue practitioners of Rebosis Property…
16 May 2023 17 min

Managing your home loan as interest rates spike

Corne Welman, franchise principal and Certified Financial Planner at Consult by Momentum, offers some insight into the current hiking cycle and shares tips on how homeowners manage.
2 May 2023 14 min

Office-to-residential conversions on the up

Justin Blend, director of Africrest Properties, which is arguably Johannesburg’s biggest player in the market, shares his insights on why such conversions are booming and gives an update on the group’s major redevelopment projects.
25 Apr 2023 15 min
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