By Justin Clarke on Tuesday, December 6, 2011
We bust a real estate myth, South Africans still love property and consider it an excellent investment. This comes from an extensive survey conducted by Private Property and market research company Columinate. Some of the results were astounding. Read more to get a few juicy incites…
By Justin Clarke on Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Economists that analyse property are a negative bunch at the moment spurting enough doom to make you choke on your Christmas cake.
If you choose to see the cup half empty it probably will be, but more than ever we need to take a good look at how we have prepared ourselves for retirement and the [...]
By Scott Picken on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Every couple of months, Scott Picken, IPS CEO flies to the international markets to review what is happening, the risks, the fundamentals and also the opportunities. This is the latest video and update from Australia.
For more information go to www.ipsinvest.com
PS Scott is completing a full investment report and this will be available in the next [...]
By Ewald Kellerman on Monday, September 5, 2011
“You may have seen our property program on the home channel and have heard about the Property Leader program, but not know what it is? Well at FNB we realised that we have so much property expertise that we needed to share, and Property Leader is how we are going to do it. See some [...]
By Scott Picken on Thursday, September 1, 2011
5 years time, where will property and business be? Looking at the latest trends we help you make educated and informed decisions about your future.
By Scott Picken on Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Breakfast Event to discuss the Global Economy, USA, the UK, Australia and South Africa. With all the uncertainty what can one do?
By Justin Clarke on Wednesday, July 6, 2011
I am a free market advocate. If you want more housing, create an environment that gives benefit to the individual who creates it, and make sure that the markets are well oiled, and you will get housing. The more you interfere with the market the less chance you will achieve that goal. When we build or buy houses, we create supply, which collectively, keeps the price of housing in South Africa relatively low. (Even though we are trying to profit from the price increases that inevitably come when demand outstrips supply)
By Paul Ten-Bokum on Monday, June 27, 2011
Overseas sites such as zillow.com pioneered the idea of bringing sophisticated computerised valuation models to the general public and integrating it with their property search offerings. Privateproperty.co.za and Lightstone have teamed up to do the same for property owners, buyers and investors.
By Justin Clarke on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
This morning I received an email from a person who had read an article that I wrote, and he was asking what are the “fundamentals” property investors talk about so prolifically. I got to thinking that maybe they are not so obvious. So here are my fundamentals…
By Scott Picken on Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Property, social media, social proof
