The Property Pod

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

Residential property market ‘not going into freefall’ – Andrew Golding

Despite SA interest rates now being above pre-Covid levels, the CEO of Pam Golding Property Group believes that there are ‘underlying fundamentals’ which are good for the market, regardless of interest-rate cycles.

28 Nov 2022 10 min

Logistics and industrial property demand still on the up

But will it continue? Mieke Purnell, research manager for sub-Saharan Africa at commercial real-estate services company JLL, shares some insight on the group’s latest report into this burgeoning part of the market.

14 Nov 2022 13 min

The exponential growth of green building

‘I think it's really about looking at the green economy, taking this concept of the green recovery even further. That's my vision’: Lisa Reynolds – GBCSA CEO.

24 Oct 2022 20 min

Navigating higher interest rates

Rhys Dyer, CEO of ooba, explores what surging interest rates mean for homeowners with bonds, first-time home buyers and the residential property market.

10 Oct 2022 14 min

‘There's definitely buoyancy back’ in retail property

Nkuli Bogopa, chief operating officer of Broll Property Management, talks shopping centres trends in the South African and US markets, which have rebounded strongly following the Covid-19 lockdown lows.

12 Sep 2022 22 min

Portia Tau-Sekati on empowerment in SA's property industry

The CEO of the Property Sector Charter Council says despite improvement to Level 4 in terms of the Broad-based BEE scorecard, much still needs to be done to transform the industry both on the BEE and women's empowerment fronts.

29 Aug 2022 29 min

What’s behind the self-storage property boom

The tell-tale sign of a genuine market opportunity is very often when there is no hard data available on a particular sector, says Gavin Lucas, CEO of Stor-Age Property REIT – the only pure-play self-storage property fund listed on the JSE.

15 Aug 2022 22 min

Rabie’s new Bridgeways Precinct puts Century City back in the spotlight

Mariska Auret, director at the Cape Town-based property group, talks about Rabie’s latest mixed-use developments, which include upmarket apartment blocks alongside the water’s edge on the old Ratanga Junction theme park site.

1 Aug 2022 17 min

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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…

1 Aug 2022 17 min

Global and SA Reit sectors also facing market volatility

Ahmed Motara, portfolio manager for listed property at Stanlib, speaks about the performance of the real estate investment trust (Reit) sector locally and internationally in the first half of 2022, with the global listed property market down some 20%, while SA’s All Property Index is down around 10%.

18 Jul 2022 17 min

Octodec still banking on the Pretoria and Joburg CBDs

Jeffrey Wapnick, managing director of the JSE-listed real estate investment trust, talks about how the residential property market has recovered from the Covid-19 fallout and why he still sees commercial property opportunities in Gauteng’s two biggest city centres.

11 Jul 2022 17 min

Exemplar’s rural and township retail property niche pays off

‘We've gone to school and university and done our doctorate in unforeseen events over the past two-and-a-half years, so I'm looking forward to what we can do going forward’ – Jason McCormick, CEO of JSE-listed Exemplar REITail.

20 Jun 2022 22 min