Tag: rental income
Rental income insurance – protecting your assets and liabilities
Protecting assets that generate rental income is vital to ensure financial security and to avoid unexpected liabilities or losses. Renting out a room, apartment or even an entire home can be a great way to earn extra income.
Statistics prove infrastructure’s outsized returns for people & economies
Infrastructure has been named a top priority for South Africa over the next few years as we seek to bounce back from global economic shocks such as the pandemic and war in Ukraine and refocus attention on promoting socio-economic development.
Choosing the right neighbourhood for an investment property
Property remains one of the best long-term investments and if you can subsidise the cost through a rental income, even better, but when deciding on where to buy your investment property, you will need to consider a number of factors to ensure the best possible returns.
Rate hikes – owner and tenant options?
While South Africans continue to grapple with the economic pressure of ongoing lockdown restrictions combined with the aftermath of looting and riots, residents of Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg are also feeling the impact of municipal rate hikes.
How to rehabilitate your credit record as a tenant
In the wake of the pandemic, many face the reality of their meticulous credit records being negatively affected by the whirlwind of last year’s economic instability. Landlords and tenants alike have been affected due to income loss, leading to missed bond payments, downsizing and, unfortunate, if unavoidable evictions.
Index shows record low rental growth in 2020
Our Rental Index annual review for 2020 has confirmed the devastating effects of lockdown on the rental market in South Africa. In the final quarter of 2020, rental growth (measured year on year) was even lower than in Q2 and Q3 of 2020.
In bed with SARS – a doable tax efficient investment scenario
If you’re ever feeling a little hard-done-by thanks to SARS, know this: Government has done an outstanding job of encouraging investment and stimulating job creation (COVID-19 aside) by introducing some really forward-thinking tax incentives.
COVID-19 – commercial property opportunity
Having worked in the commercial property sector for many years, let me state a truth universally acknowledged, but often overlooked: we will come through this, and the sector will recover from the significant knocks its faced recently as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The difference between saving and investing
As the year unwinds and we head into the holiday season, I know what you are thinking. Now is the time to spend and spoil yourself for a year of hard work - however this time of the year gives you a chance to take a moment and think about savings and ways you can invest your hard-earned money.
Commercial property – value or market investor?
Now is the perfect opportunity to become a value investor in commercial and industrial property and to ditch the generalist market investor approach. For the past few years, most physical industrial and commercial properties have shown good capital appreciation and income returns, and many investors took to purchasing any available commercial or industrial property.
