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Spear Reit to develop Mambos Storage & Home distribution centre

August 11 2026 14:30  Quintin Rossi (Spear Reit CEO), Santos Francesco (Mambos), Demetre Nikolopoulos (Mambos), James Bylos (Spear) CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA Western Cape-focused and JSE-listed real estate investment trust Spear has concluded a long-term agreement with Mambos Storage & Home to develop the retailer’s flagship 7,150 m² distribution centre in Blackheath, Cape Town. Mambos […]

AI in Supply Chains Will Expose Weak Foundations, Not Fix Them

August 9 2026 10:15 This is a guest article by Ram Ramakrishnan is Chief Executive Officer of Cloud23, a Johannesburg based enterprise software group. Recent disruptions across global supply chains are once again exposing a familiar fault line in enterprise technology transformation. SPAR’s reported SAP-related disruption in KwaZulu-Natal. Revlon’s enterprise resource planning driven manufacturing and fulfilment […]

ABCON – How Caley May Is Rewiring a 40-Year-Old Property Brand

August 6 2026 14:30 The female team behind high-end developer, Abcon – Kutlwano Mhlanga, Lee-Anne Mamarake Johnson, Kelly Applewhite, Caley May, Monique Pieterse How Caley May Is Rewiring a 40-Year-Old Property Brand By the time Caley May walks a prospective tenant through one of Abcon’s developments, she has usually already sold them something else entirely: a […]

Another Brick in the Wall – The REIT Report – Garreth Elston – Managing Director Golden Section Capital – Can South Africa become a data centre hub

July 31 2026 16:00 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA This is the latest episode of the fast growing podcast, Another Brick in the Wall. This is the eleventh episode of the REIT Report series which falls under our comprehensive real estate podcast. The REIT Report is brought to you by the SA REIT Association. In this episode, Alistair and Michael […]

South African property auction breaks Kyalami’s record

July 28 2026 15:00 DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA A national commercial property company called In2Assets has said it achieved a landmark result in the South African property auction industry, with sale of an industrial facility for R285.5m at a monthly public property auction held on July 21. Situated at 25 Richard Carte Road within Durban’s established […]

$2.1Bn worth of property deals completed in Africa across the past 18 months

July 22 2026 13:15 CAPE TOWN Ahead of the 17th Africa Property Investment (API) Summit in Cape Town, investment pipelines are converting into a record number of transactions as the continent’s real estate and hospitality sectors receive increasing interest.Data gathered from professional across Africa’s real estate investment landscape reveals that the continent’s property and hospitality […]

Former Telkom Learning campus to become artisan training hub

July 3 2026 16:00 GAUTENG The former Telkom Centre for Learning in Olifantsfontein, Gauteng has been purchased by Africa Skills Training and Management Services that plans to redevelop it into one of the country’s largest artisan training hubs. The 24.7-hectare property, which includes more than 23 500 m² of purpose-built education and training facilities, was […]

Mall of Africa owner Attacq has R2.1bn worth of development projects for Waterfall City

June 26 2026 13:30 MIDRAND, SOUTH AFRICA JSE-listed Attacq is involved in R2.1bn worth of property development at its flagship development in Midrand, Waterfall City. Attacq owns Mall of Africa. Waterfall City, in the Midrand Corridor is a smart city according to Attacq. In an operational update on Tuesday June 23, Attacq reported 527,671 square metre […]

Stor-Age grows earnings as SA portfolio offsets UK slowdown

June 18 2026 16:40 CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA JSE-listed self-storage group Stor-Age Property Reit yesterday released its financial results for the year to end-March 2026. Management said the group was helped by “an exceptional domestic trading cycle to successfully offset cyclical macroeconomic friction in its United Kingdom portfolio”. The specialised real estate investment trust (Reit) […]