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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 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 performance, trends as well as new policies/ laws affecting the sector from both local government and national government level. This podcast publishes two episodes per month.
Occasionally English South Africa Business
101 Episodes
20 – 40

Hyprop on the up?

Despite retail property stocks also being affected by poor sentiment in the listed property sector, and Hyprop trading at a huge discount, its CEO Morne Wilken seems optimistic, with the fund buying a R1.6bn mall in Cape Town and getting a credit rating upgrade in the same week.
24 Oct 2023 13 min

Why Investec Property Fund rebranded to Burstone

'‘It has been a busy 12 months, and certainly transformative. There are two rather large transactions that were completed almost simultaneously – the internalisation of the management companies, and the acquisition of the majority of our joint-ventures stake in the European platform,” notes Burstone Group CEO Andrew Wooler.
10 Oct 2023 17 min

Keillen Ndlovu on listed property being ‘out of favour’

‘The sector, in terms of sentiment, I would say has probably hit that low. And even looking at valuations as well, the discounts to NAV [Net asset values] are at the highest levels that we've seen at 40%-plus. So take out the Covid era or lockdown days, this sector is…
3 Oct 2023 19 min

Revenge travel? Cape Town's international tourism boom

‘When we looked at the latest figures around airport arrivals, international tourist arrivals have already surpassed the 2019 numbers – the pre-Covid numbers – and we're not even into our high season yet’ – Enver Duminy, CEO of Cape Town Tourism.
26 Sep 2023 17 min

Talking tourism with Mmatšatši Ramawela

The big challenge in the industry ‘at the moment in the country is more the leadership issues, because in anything that is not being led, you get things going into disarray. So for me what I find very difficult to swallow is the leadership across [the board], but more so…
12 Sep 2023 28 min

Talking tourism: Saantha Naidu of Coastlands Hotels & Resorts

The founder and CEO of Durban’s largest private-owned and independently-run hotel group speaks about the chain’s growth, its latest R800m mixed-use development in Umhlanga Ridge, prospects for tourism in Surf City post the floods and riots, and why his company doesn’t plan to expand beyond KZN.
5 Sep 2023 16 min

Woman with grit: Shevira Bissessor of Gateway Real Estate Africa

Bissessor speaks about pushing the boundaries and making her mark in property and the male-dominated development industry in Africa. She also talks about her roles as COO of Gateway Real Estate Africa, and as head of ESG at London-listed Grit Real Estate Income Group.
22 Aug 2023 16 min

Meet rising real estate star Sarah Shezi

30-year-old Shezi, an estate manager at Cushman & Wakefield | Broll, is making waves in the commercial property industry and was recently named one of the Mail and Guardian's 200 Young South Africans for 2023.
1 Aug 2023 13 min

Profile: ‘CEE’ what Pieter Prinsloo is up to …

The CEO of Redefine Europe – a subsidiary of JSE-listed Redefine Properties – says the business ‘sees enough opportunity at the moment in Poland’ to keep it busy managing and growing its investments in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) market.
25 Jul 2023 16 min

How a deposit affects your home loan payments

Gavin Kelsey, COO of real estate agency group Just Property, shares insights on why it's important to save for a deposit for a house. This is especially important for first-time home buyers who are likely to find it tougher to get into the property market currently, with the 14-year-high interest…
18 Jul 2023 15 min

SA listed property still struggling

The sector 'underperformed a lot of the peer asset groups within the SA domestic landscape,' says Naeem Tilly of Sesfikile Capital. But he sees the sector stabilising, with 'a lot of the data coming out [showing] that vacancies are falling and rentals are starting to grow'.
11 Jul 2023 23 min

R15bn Westown developer bets on a ‘KZN Comeback’

Carlos Correia, CEO and founder of Fundamentum Property Group, speaks about why he is pushing ahead with development on the new mixed-used mini city in Shongweni, west of Durban, despite the riots that rocked the province in 2021.
4 Jul 2023 22 min

Joburg needs the finest people to lead the city – Malose Kekana

The Sapoa president and Pareto CEO questions ‘Mickey Mouse' activities he is seeing in SA’s biggest city, shares insight into Pareto’s growth as a black-empowered property group and speaks frankly about dysfunctional local government being the industry’s biggest bugbear.
27 Jun 2023 23 min

Jannie Moolman on running a successful family property business

The chairperson of Pretoria-based Moolman Group, which owns 1.2m square metres of commercial property, explains how the family-run business has grown over the past 50 years and why ‘it's not a freebie for family members’ that join the group.
20 Jun 2023 12 min

‘The buzz is definitely back’ in Sandton

Elaine Jack, city improvement district manager of SA’s financial and corporate hub – the Sandton Central Management District – shares insights and updates on happenings and advances in the precinct over the years, especially post-Covid.
13 Jun 2023 22 min
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