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The South African Property Owners Association is marking its 60th anniversary with a renewed focus on municipal rates, infrastructure and skills development, after winning a court challenge to parts of Cape Town's property charges.
eThekwini is pressing ahead with billions of rand in water and housing investment, including the R1.2 billion Southern Aqueduct, an R84 million Redcliffe housing scheme and the long-running Cornubia integrated development.
The Umhlanga Ratepayers and Residents Association has demanded Pythia Property stop construction at Umhlanga Centre over structural safety and compliance concerns, while the operator denies any illegal work.
Intersite Asset Investments, the property arm of rail agency PRASA, has awarded six Western Cape development opportunities to private-sector partners in a proposed R3.6 billion pipeline expected to deliver 790 apartments and 4,466 student beds.
The City of Cape Town has told the Western Cape High Court that sharply declining national grant funding is behind the slow delivery of affordable housing, as activists question progress on land already released.
Ratepayers in eThekwini's Ward 31 say steep valuation increases, unclear guidance and slow feedback are fuelling uncertainty over their municipal rates, as the metro works through about 10,000 objections to its 2026 General Valuation Roll.
A corporate real estate executive says government needs better data and active portfolio management to unlock value from a public property portfolio worth about R151 billion and spanning more than 80,000 assets.
The Transnet National Ports Authority has signed a 25-year lease with Freeport Saldanha covering land in the port's Southern Precinct, backing an investment pipeline valued at about R6.9 billion for the Saldanha Bay Special Economic Zone.
Property owners in Johannesburg's CBD say repeated electricity failures are threatening years of inner-city regeneration, forcing them to spend millions of rands on diesel and driving tenants away.