Investors would do well to keep these on their radar

AFTER BATTLING against affordability challenges and sluggish sales activity in 2024, South Africa’s residential property industry defied the doom-and-gloom forecasts for 2025, staging a steady recovery fuelled by long-awaited interest rate cuts.

We ended 2025 with the prime lending rate a full percentage point lower than January – now at 10.25% – and with economists expecting two further 25-basis-point cuts by mid-2026, the outlook is looking bright for would-be property investors.

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