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Risk response: When single women dominate the first-time buyer market in a country with chronic unemployment and rising living costs it tells us that traditional safety nets have failed. Photo: Freepik/AI
ABSA

Single women lead home buying

Many of them buy for control over their own lives and protection rather than prestige. That’s worrying

  • Ash Müller
5 min read
Top dollar: One on Bree is a 131m (430ft) mixed-use building under construction in Cape Town. Photo: Paragon Architects
AFFORDABLE HOUSING

The real estate year in review

2025 didn’t see a boom but it was not a bust

  • Ash Müller
7 min read
Out of sync: There is a visible gap between the housing problems the government wants to solve and the policies it puts in place. A tax that was never meant to be a barrier has become one. Photo: David Harrison
BOND QUALIFICATIONS

Transfer duties breaking SA’s property ladder

The transfer duty system is punishing those trying to enter or move through the market

  • Ash Müller
5 min read