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Notes on the South African property market, the tools agents run, and what the rest of the world is building.
What the numbers say about South African estate agencies, the portals they list on and the money moving between them.
South Africa's property regulator admits in its own planning documents that it has no full database of practitioners. Why nobody has a real count.
4 min readIn 2023 the Competition Commission found property portal price gaps over 300% with no cost basis. Here's what its inquiry changed for SA agencies.
4 min readProperty24's top tier rose 374% between 2014 and 2020. The full 2026 rate card runs R656 to R84,256 a month. Here's what agencies pay, tier by tier.
4 min readPPRA register arithmetic puts the average SA estate agency at about 3 qualified agents. Most industry advice is written for the giants. Here's the maths.
3 min readSouth Africa has 6,202 registered estate agency firms on the PPRA's books. The full provincial table, and why 83% sit in Gauteng, the Western Cape and KZN.
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