Blogs

Regularising informal sales is a lengthy and difficult process - but the TSC has had some successes with a number of families getting their title deeds.

On the 16 November 2020 the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, speaking to the National Council of Provinces, announced that housing …

This blog originally appeared as the introductory essay to the 2020 edition of the Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook. 2020 will forever be remembered as …

Creator: Johnny Miller          Copyright: Mlllefoto – johnnie.miller@gmail.com   The revised Expropriation Bill was gazetted on 9 October 2020 signifying an important …

Call to advertise in the 2020 Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook

With millions of South Africans living in insecure housing, the residential property market can be supported to deliver good housing outcomes and support economic growth …

A new report documents the first two years of the Transaction Support Centre (TSC), an action-research pilot project established by 71point4 in partnership with CAHF to support formal residential property market transactions in Makhaza, Khayelitsha, a lower income neighbourhood of Cape Town.

Since forecasting rent behaviour is critical to investment decision-making, local and foreign real estate investors want to have simple measurable indicators to track and understand …

Every year, the floods in Abidjan kill dozens of people and cause extensive property damage. This is likely to intensify with climate change and rampant …

Thumeka* (not her real name) is a 47-year-old live-in domestic worker who earns R6 500 a month. In 2017, after years of renting RDP houses in …