Blog by Rode

Which way will institutional investors’ money go after recent encouraging property returns? Tasked with analysing the future of listed property at the upcoming annual Rode conference in Johannesburg is Ron van der Bos, property analyst of BoE Securities.

Property Poised for Recovery The SA property market has shown favourable, albeit patchy, signs of improvement on the back of better business prospects in the first quarter of 2000.

In the good old days – before inflation reared its head in the early 1970s – South African property investors didn’t worry about the “performance” of their real estate. Nor did they know how to calculate total returns (income yield plus capital appreciation) for a specific period.

The face of municipal valuations is set to change drastically as a computer-assisted mass appraisal (CAMA) increasingly comes to the assistance of human valuers to establish the market values on which municipal rates will be based.