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The body representing institutional residential landlords says tenants face a tough year as electricity, fuel and municipal costs climb, with the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement offering little immediate relief.
Civil servants, traders, students and young professionals across Abuja are splitting rent and sharing flats, not as a lifestyle choice but as an economic necessity as housing costs outpace stagnant wages.
Thirty people have been killed and 58 injured in building collapses in Kenya over the past five years, a pattern professionals link to weak inspections and approvals that persist after each disaster.
More than 2,000 beneficiaries of the West Bank Land Restitution Project in kuGompo have waited almost 30 years without a single house being built, and some original claimants have died in the interim.
A halfway review of eThekwini's Defend The City programme reports more than 1,000 tonnes of waste removed and a 32.2 per cent fall in property-related crime, while warning that stabilisation is not transformation.
Commercial property owners are sinking boreholes, installing backup tanks and leak-detection systems as municipal water failures threaten tenant operations, independent property analyst Keillen Ndlovu tells Moneyweb.
Land-title processing in Lagos can stretch well beyond the official service timeline, and the delays are blocking homeowners and developers from using property as collateral, a policy discussion has warned.
Stronger rental demand and lagging Gauteng house-price growth are pushing more Johannesburg owners to let their homes instead of selling when they move to Cape Town, though agents warn net returns are thinner than headline rents suggest.
At the South African Council of Shopping Centres congress in Durban, retail strategists argued that centres must offer ticketed experiences and membership perks, with e-commerce now about 10% of local retail sales.