INTO AFRICA June 2018 Edition – Renewed Optimism: African Real Estate

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) –Welcome to the June 2018 edition of INTO AFRICA, a publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. This month’s edition, titled: Renewed Optimism: African Real Estate, examines the opportunities as well the challenges in the African real estate markets.

Africa’s continuing economic and social development is encouraging investors to expand their portfolios in the continent and the yearning for long-term investment has drawn increased numbers of international investors to examine opportunities in the African real estate markets. The growing of the savvy investors, occupiers, and developers, as well as improved ease of doing business in most African countries, has improved the asset quality across all sectors. Although economic growth has faltered in parts of Africa, demographic trends remain favourable to the continent’s long-term development, hence a positive prospect for real estate. Nevertheless, there still exits several short to medium-term challenges – such as currency fluctuations, political uncertainty, and regulatory risk as well as immature capital markets structures, avoidable bureaucratic bottlenecks, and complexity in the land dispute resolution.

JOSHUA ASKEW FRICS (Head: Valuation Sub-Saharan Africa, JLL South Africa) takes a look at real state valuation fundamentals from the perspective of a willing buyer and seller. In the same vein, ERIC WRIGHT (Chief Executive Officer Spectrum Valuations and Asset Solutions) examines the concepts of property valuation in “Property Valuations: DO we or Don’t we”.

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