Andrew Golding
latest news & developments
High Cape Town home prices prompt semigration sprawl
With more people relocating to the coast, demand in the Mother City has sent prices soaring
SA housing market to fall off a hill, not a cliff
The market is set to slow as consumers feel higher bond costs but the slump will not be as dramatic as in economies where buoyancy is the rule not the exception
Unemployment and interest rate hikes predicted to hit property market
The volume of new mortgage applications reached multi-year highs amid record low interest rates
Absa: Housing market to beef up in 2010
The housing market will start recovering gradually in the second half of this year, Absa’s latest House Price Index released on Wednesday showed.
Rate cuts should see property prices drop
The next Monetary Policy Committee meeting will hopefully see some extra relief afforded to consumers in terms of a further drop in the repo rate.