Property | - Part 2

How African property markets can move beyond the ‘pioneering’ phase

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Property pioneers have already taken the first steps in shaping Africa’s urban landscapes, constructing landmark malls, hotels and office blocks that could be called iconic. This is just the start. Modern, fully functioning cities require a well-oiled system of residential, commercial and industrial development and civil infrastructure, with the real estate skills and services to match. The question is: Who will design, build, manage, maintain – and of course…

Nigeria’s Economic Recession Creates Opportunities in Real Estate

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Obinna Onunkwo, Managing Partner of Purple Capital Partners Limited, is a seasoned securities specialist with over 15 years of experience in investment management. He talks to Capital Markets in Africa about challenges and opportunities in Nigerian real estate markets. The perfect storm is brewed with the combination of an acute shortage of dollar inflows, the spectre of currency devaluation, increasing inflation and rising interest rates. How are developers and investors facing these challenges as well…

Francophone Africa: Reality and Opportunities in Real Estate

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ABIDJAN (Capital Markets in Africa) – Africa and its potential have been on every investor’s lips for some time now. This interest is especially relevant when strong trends are emerging across cities of Africa, whether French, English or Portuguese-speaking, including an emerging middle class and rapid urbanization. Early 2000, commodities-driven economies with impressive growth rates such as Nigeria and Angola were the first targets of international investors. However, with the recent fall in commodities price,…

A strong Case for Real Estate Investment in Africa

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Africa is experiencing the world’s fastest rate of urbanisation, with rapid growth in middle class populations in sub-Saharan cities driving demand for quality products and a modern shopping experience. While uncertainty and volatility have clouded the near term investment outlook for Africa, astute real estate investors with a longer term perspective recognise the continent’s potential based on positive demographics, urbanisation and growing personal incomes. The continent’s challenges have tended…

Cities Face Tough Competition For Business Investment if they are not National Capitals

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Every city official knows that if you’re not running a global capital city, you’re going to have to work twice as hard to attract business investment. Being a second or third city might seem to be a handicap but it forces you to innovate, which can only be a good thing. Innovation doesn’t have to be difficult, though. Most city officials are looking for an epiphany that will bring…

RICS: Increasing Confidence in South Africa Property Markets

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – In the extensive travel that I do in my role I get to talk to professionals and market leaders right across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa. I also get to talk to governments and policy makers. What is very clear to me is that for all these parties the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) name promises the consistent delivery of standards – bringing confidence to the…

African Hotels and Resorts: Investors’ Hidden Treasures

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – In 2015 the latest of the biannual reports by Hotel Partners Africa outlined the huge opportunity that was available for hotel investors in sub-Saharan Africa, echoing many earlier reports by a whole series of academic and professional luminaries. Everyone knows about Africa’s potential, created by the population explosion, the demographic profile of the population and the commodities “lottery win”. However, the shortage of hotel bedrooms provides one of the…

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