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Weekly Newsletter
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Friday, 09 September, 2005
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| >> Real Estate News - South Africa |
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The residential property market continues to be buoyant, with April's rate cut spurring further liveliness in house price growth. Notably, activity and prices of properties in the middle price ranges, which are boosted by, among other factors, booming sectional title developments, are outpacing the growth in other price bands. The macroeconomic environment and healthy consumer balance sheets remain supportive of a firm housing market. However, some consolidation in house prices is expected towards year-end, as a result of recent above-trend growth that created a high base from where future growth rates will be calculated; the reduction in pent-up demand after several years of brisk buying; and the fading impact of previous interest rate cuts.
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| >> The Property Game - Laager Revolutions |
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Supplied by Dave Welmans www.thepropertygame.co.za Its fun to look back over the trends that have driven urban and leisure
property developments and to try and fathom what might happen in the future.
Cluster developments have only been popular since the eighties. Before
that people only had the choice of freehold or sectional title flats.
Today there are a myriad of different lifestyle choices that can be made...
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| >> House price growth slowest since 1999 |
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HOUSE prices recorded their lowest nominal month on month growth since 1999 in August, mortgage lender Absa said today, with growth expected to slow further in the next year. Property prices in SA have soared by over 200% since 1997, fuelled by low interest rates, but the country’s largest retail bank said the boom was coming to a natural end as houses have simply become too expensive.
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| >> Hot in the City! |
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More and more people are realising the benefits of living in the central city, said Mick Joyce, MD of Pam Golding Properties' Western Cape metro region, who was speaking at an event held recently at the converted Mutual Heights apartment building in Cape Town's city centre. This building was formerly the headquarters of Old Mutual. ..
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| >> What's Holding Gold Back? |
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After the price of gold spiked over $850 in January of 1980, gold production increased substantially - and it stayed up, even with the steep falloff in gold prices. Production has gone from about 1,200 tonnes per year in 1980 to its current level, over 2,500 tpy. Where did all that new gold production come from? Aside from the dramatic increase in price incentive in 1980, new technologies have matured, such as heap leaching and satellite prospect identification. In addition, since the collapse of communism, many prospective areas of the world have opened to modern exploration...
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| >> Focus on Velddrif, Western Cape, South Africa |
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Velddrif is situated some 2 km upstream from where the Berg River flows into the sea at the Bay of St Helena. The name Velddrif came into existence when a farmer, Theunis Smit, took his stock through a drift in the veld, to find grazing across the river. The animals often had to swim across the river. Later on, in 1899, a pont was built, which was the only means of crossing the Berg River...
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| >> From Africa |
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WHILE most South African property pundits will agree
that the saying “Africa is not for sissies” rings true when
it comes to property investment, some commentators believe there are major
opportunities for local property companies on the continent.
This is despite a host of problems with title deeds, property administration and legal systems outside SA and certain other southern African states. According to this month’s issue of Business in Africa, “it is estimated that sub-Saharan Africa alone is sitting on dead capital in the form of a dysfunctional property market to the tune of $970bn”.
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