John Loos
Featured, Industry Leader

Five minutes with property economist par excellence – John Loos
Loos, a property economist at FNB Commercial Property Finance, has been a catalyst in SA’s…
20 May 2024
Advice & Insight, Featured, What is happening in the market?

Are we too dependent on interest rates to improve the market?
The property market may ‘hope’ for interest rate cuts to boost short-term demand, and periodically,…
13 May 2024

Municipal mismanagement driving semigration
Semigration became the property buzzword of 2023, and the phenomenon shows no signs of slowing…
22 January 2024

The rising repo effect on property
The Monetary Policy Committee of the SA Reserve Bank has elected to hike the repo…
26 May 2023

The repo rate roundup
Here’s a quick roundup of comments from the industry in response to the third consecutive…
25 November 2022
Advice & Insight, What is happening in the market?

Increase in repo rate spells danger
There is a very real danger that the series of recent rates hikes, while coming…
26 May 2022

Growth in building plans passed
Non-residential building statistics release showed positive growth for January 2022 in square metres of building…
24 March 2022

What the Russia-Ukraine conflict means for SA’s housing market
South Africa’s housing property market has shown remarkable resilience in the past two years, emerging…
10 March 2022
Advice & Insight, What is happening in the market?

Second rates hike could cool estate markets
Despite last week’s decision by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to increase the repo…
7 February 2022



