Blog by Rode

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Sentiment of property investors improves ever so slightly. Drivers of office demand losing their oomph. Office rentals contract

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Sandton office market booming. Guarantee Fund a boon for prices in the affordable market segment. Building-construction industry experiences stagflation...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Real office rentals stutter. Business cycle indicators losing vigour, bringing with them implications for property fundamentals. Houses overvalued by 25%...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Poor office demand a damper on rental growth. Indicators flash health warning about health of industrial property. Weak mortgage lending restrains house-price movements...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Office rentals starting the year off with a bang. Rental recovery bodes well for capitalization rates. Flat rentals outperforming house and townhouse rentals...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Office and industrial cap rates reflect renewed optimism. Industrial rentals end 2010 on a better note. Houses should not expect further help from the Reserve Bank...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Office rentals show some growth amidst headwinds. Weakness in manufacturing not good news for industrial property. House prices doing a double dip...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Reprieve for office rentals in the form of steady vacancy rates. Industrial rentals continue to slide. Growth in house prices losing its oomph...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: The business-cycle downswing is still weighing down on rents. The FIRE sector continues to shed jobs, putting pressure on office vacancies...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Opposing forces acting on capitalization rates. Cape Town and Johannesburg decentralized office rentals in the red. Demand prospects improving, but industrial rentals now contracting...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Cap rates moving sideways. Uptrend in office vacancies striking. Flat landlords under huge stress. Nominal house prices turning the corner...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Modest real-rental growth to hold back cap rates. Still fairly good office-rental growth, but decelerating trend picking up. Flat rentals flat-lining...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Are cap rates topping? Office market still in upswing. Industrial rental growth curbed to single digits. Tough times ahead for the affordable house market...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Capitalization rates could be peaking. Listed yields strengthen on back of stronger long-bond yields. The house market: Recovery or kaput in 2009? Cement sales remain in the red...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Capitalization rates’ tide turning. Office market continues to enjoy double-digit rental growth. Cooling industrial rental growth. Stalling house prices

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Cap rates showing a weakening (increasing) trend. Office rentals continue to grow impressively. Real house-price cycle topping in...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Industrial-leaseback and shopping-centre capitalization rates feeling the pinch, but no need to panic yet. Vacant prime office space remains a rare commodity...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Higher risk brought on by electricity shock might soon be reflected in capitalization rates...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Cap rates’ mixed reaction to interest-rate hikes. Top decentralized office nodes show strong nominal growth...

The following are significant findings or conclusions made in this issue of Rode’s Report: Cap rates are tending south again. Johannesburg’s office rentals are leading the upswing on the back of low vacancies. Office-zoned stands have great investment potential...