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Sakina Nosarka is the new President of South Africa’s shopping centre council

Sakina Nosarka has been appointed President of the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC), bringing over two decades of hands-on experience in the property sector to the role.

4 July 2022

Growthpont extends long-running sponsorship of Tennis SA

Centurion, Pretoria, 4 July 2022 - Extending its long-running support of the sport, across all levels of the game, Growthpoint Properties has renewed its partnership with Tennis South Africa (TSA).

4 July 2022

Boardwalk Mall is ready to open on 22 September ‘22

With three months until Boardwalk Mall’s official opening, the development is comfortably on track to open fully-let, bringing the best shopping, leisure and entertainment South Africa has to offer to Gqeberha.

30 June 2022

Vukile’s Castellana Properties wins three major awards from the Spanish Shopping Centre Association

Vukile Property Fund (JSE: VKE), the specialist retail REIT invested in South Africa and Spain, has congratulated its Madrid-listed subsidiary, Castellana Properties, for winning two awards and one honourable mention at the closing ceremony of the Spanish Shopping Centre...

20 June 2022

Vukile reports strong financial results and an appetite for growth

Vukile Property Fund (JSE: VKE), the specialist retail REIT invested in South Africa and Spain, has increased earnings (funds from operations or FFO) by 9.5% for its financial year to 31 March 2022 and declared a total dividend of 105.8 cents per share, retaining R308m t...

9 June 2022

New mixed-use residential neighbourhood Barlow Park to break ground in June 2022

Barlow Park is set to become Sandton’s brand-new residential neighbourhood, providing much-sought-after affordable, top-quality housing right on the doorstep of South Africa’s commercial capital, Sandton Central.

2 June 2022

Fluxmans signs with Growthpoint for Illovo Corner offices

Leading South African law firm Fluxmans has signed a long lease with Growthpoint Properties (JSE: GRT) for a 4,600sqm office in Illovo Corner, Illovo Boulevard, Johannesburg.

1 June 2022

GBCSA relocates to Growthpoint’s River Park offices in Cape Town

Green Building Council South Africa (GBCSA) is moving to new green offices in Cape Town at Growthpoint Properties’ River Park, Mowbray, from 1 June 2022. The GBCSA has taken a three-year lease over some 330sqm of space at the recently refurbished multitenant office build...

25 May 2022

Emira agrees to sell Enyuka shareholding to One in R637 million transaction

Emira Property Fund (JSE: EMI) has, subject to financing conditions precedent normal for this sort of transaction, agreed to sell its entire 49.9% stake in Enyuka Property Holdings, its rural and lower LSM retail property joint venture with One Property Holdings, to its ...

18 May 2022

Emira grows its US investment to a dozen dominant power centres

Emira Property Fund (JSE: EMI) has acquired its twelfth grocery-anchored open-air shopping centre in the USA. Always investing together with its in-country US investment partners, the Rainier Group of Companies, Emira has now invested a further USD18.45m into the equity ...

16 May 2022