Exemplar REITail to acquire Free State and Mpumalanga properties

CEO of the JSE-listed majority black-owned and managed real estate counter is more positive about SA’s economic hub – home to SA’s biggest population, biggest retail property market, and most of the group’s assets.

The insurer’s ‘Property Impact Fund has been launched to address a dire need in South Africa, serving the underserved missing middle,’ says Kamogelo Leeuw, portfolio manager, Sanlam Investments.

The one-time investment advisor to President Cyril Ramaphosa and outgoing chair of JSE-listed Delta Property Fund talks about her time leading Delta’s board in a challenging period to turn around the group, and weighs in on SA’s grey list exit, saying: ‘now is not the time to be complacent… corruption…

Barto van der Merwe, managing director of Renishaw Property Developments, shares insights on the residential-centred, mixed-use property node backed by JSE-listed Crookes Brothers and rising from the ground on sugarcane land straddling the Umdoni and eThekwini municipalities.

Following last week’s announcement of the Growthpoint Healthcare Property Holdings deal to acquire Auria Senior Living for R2.4bn, the head of Growthpoint Investment Partners shares latest insights on the expansion into these specialist real estate asset classes.