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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 …

On April 25th 2020, President Uhuru Kenyatta assented the amendments to the Tax Act 2020. One of the key amendments introduced by this law is …

The Basel III framework is an internationally agreed set of reform measures developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision with a view to strengthening …

In many low-income neighbourhoods across South Africa, two forms of land administration co-exist; the formal system governed by laws and regulations facilitated by legal professionals, and …

There are several observable housing-related challenges facing low income households in Africa. Undoubtedly, access to finance remains a critical bottleneck. Traditional housing finance, such as …

Since the beginning of March this year, almost all countries around the world have introduced measures to protect their citizens and their economies exposed to …

Globally, the  COVID-19 pandemic is triggering cross-cutting responses from housing sector practitioners who face the challenge of instituting measures to manage the various risks and …