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 Suren Naidoo

180 Episodes

120 – 140

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

Bullish Vukile’s R700m cap raise to fund Spanish and SA expansion

‘I think raising capital and doing deals is really intrinsic to the Reit [real estate investment trust] model. It really is part of what Reits are about’ – Laurence Rapp, CEO of JSE-listed Vukile Property Fund.

23 May 2023 19 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

‘Designate tourism special economic zones’ to boost investment – TBCSA

Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa, CEO of the Tourism Business Council of South Africa, echoes the call for such SEZ’s to be considered by government – zones where incentives will be offered for mega resorts to be built to attract much needed local and foreign direct investment into the industry.

9 May 2023 33 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

Atterbury’s R3bn residential-anchored development rising in Sandton

Armond Boshoff, CEO of the property development and investment group, gives an update on the ‘reimaged’ Barlow Park mixed-use project, which is one of the group’s biggest and most high-profile developments currently underway in SA.

18 Apr 2023 13 min

Akash Maharaj on 'excellerating' up the commercial property ladder

CEO of Excellerate JHI and JHI Retail talks about his big move to executive level and to the 'big smoke' – Johannesburg.

11 Apr 2023 12 min

How Alleyroads is cornering the affordable housing market

Ivan Pretorius and Louise Oertel of Alleyroads share their insights on the sector and the growth of the property development and investment group, which has built over 4 000 residential units across SA.

4 Apr 2023 16 min

Sasse on leading Growthpoint from a R118m to R175bn company

‘I feel I have dedicated my entire career and a big part of my life to Growthpoint’: Norbert Sasse, Group CEO of South Africa’s largest JSE-listed property group, on his nearly 24-year innings with the company.

28 Mar 2023 17 min

Shoppers back at mega malls big time

SA shopping-centre trading densities rebounded strongly to a four-year high in 2022, according to the latest Clur Shopping Centre index. Belinda Clur, managing director of research house Clur International, which produces the index, shares her retail property insights.

6 Mar 2023 18 min

Cape Town’s CBD is booming with property development activity

Rob Kane, chair of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID), shares his insights on why there are around 20 construction tower cranes in the city centre, and the other achievements of arguably SA’s most successful city improvement district.

20 Feb 2023 14 min

Listed property: Worst-performing asset class in 2022, but will 2023 be better?

Rahgib Davids, an analyst at M&G Investments, shares his insights on the listed property sector’s performance in 2022 and his expectations for the year ahead.

6 Feb 2023 19 min

R6bn Whetstone Business Park takes off near King Shaka International

Gavin Strydom, co-developer and partner of the 815 000m2 commercial and industrial property project, says the new park forms a key part of the broader Dube aerotropolis development precinct, which he believes ‘is the future of Durban’.

23 Jan 2023 19 min

What's in store for SA’s commercial property sector in 2023?

While last year we had a strengthening industrial property market, that market cannot defy economic gravity forever, says John Loos, senior economist and property strategist at FNB Commercial Property Finance.

9 Jan 2023 12 min

The Property Pod: Top 5 for 2022

A wrap of Moneyweb’s most listened to Property Pods of the year.

26 Dec 2022 4 min

Why major malls need to continually innovate and invest

Ahmed Kazi, head of retail at Old Mutual Property, shares his industry insights on the performance and recovery of landmark shopping centres like Gateway, Cavendish Square and The Zone @ Rosebank, along with what the group is doing to keep these malls relevant.

12 Dec 2022 22 min