Author: Andrew Kumm

MAIN MEN: At the Val de Vie polo fields and the steps to the clubhouse, Deon Basson (managing director, REDi), Sarel Rossouw (group financial director, Val de Vie), Ryk Neethling ( marketing director, Val de Vie) and Stephen Stiekema (operations director, REDi). Plan to expand property borders as demand outstrips supply at popular Val de Vie Estate VAL DE Vie Estate is all but sold out, with only 25 of the […]

The recently held opening of the show village at Sharon Park Lifestyle estate, the Hlala Kamnandi Developments project between Springs and Nigel on the East Rand, was a huge success, says Gavin Vickers managing director of Kairos, the company mandated to market the homes at Sharon Park. “With over 250 people visiting, 23 homes were […]

When it comes to buying homes in lifestyle estates, the pricing of the homes in these usually tie in with the higher standard of living that a so-called “lifestyle estate” offers, but at Sharon Park Lifestyle Estate, says Gavin Vickers, managing director of Kairos, the company which is mandated to market the homes at Sharon […]

Calgro M3, the Gauteng based property development company which has built over 40 000 houses in their 18 years in operation, has just announced that they are releasing the next phase of their Scottsdene affordable housing development in Cape Town. This phase, called North Pine Meadow, is part of the larger integrated Scottsdene development which consists […]

RED-i (Real Estate Development Interactive) have announced that they have now become the first company in South Africa to license the Google Maps Engine (GME) platform as a part of their service offering to property developers and their teams. Google Maps Engine harnesses the power of Google cloud to map very large volumes of data, […]

While Namibia’s property industry is booming and the commercial sector seems to be fairly saturated, there is a shortage of housing in virtually all price categories, says Pierre Hollander, head of sales and marketing for the Omeya Golf Estate development, 30km South of Windhoek on the B1 route beneath the Auas mountains. “The Namibian economy […]

The private sector is possibly one of the main engines of growth in Ghana’s economy, says Kenneth Ofori, business manager for Devtraco Plus, a luxury real estate company in Ghana. Devtraco Plus, he says, is committed to providing sound upmarket home investment opportunities in sought after neighbourhoods. “Millions of dollars are being realised by private […]

Waterfall Estate, situated in the triangle between Woodmead, Midrand and Kyalami, which the developers say will eventually become a whole new city in Gauteng, has commissioned a state of the art Estate Management System (EMS) from RED-i (Real Estate Development Interactive), who provide property developers and their teams with online systems and technologies to assist […]

Burrie Smit Onwikkelaars have relaunched phase one of their ± 75 ha Schoongezigt development in Rustenburg, this time with one-off architecturally designed plot and plan packages, as well as plots with a very attractive rebate package of R40 000 on architect’s fees from OliveHill Architects, says Chrisjan van Heerden, marketing manager of CH Professional, who have […]

True North, a registered non-profit company, has been actively involved in the Vrygrond and Overcome areas for the past four years, and in an ongoing bid to bring the standards of crèches in underprivileged areas up to code, has embarked on a project which seems massive, but, according to their CEO, Vicky Kumm, will be […]