EFB Properties

To anyone focused on making it in the new year, it’s natural to want to put the old one behind us. And while it’s been a fair year for rentals and a great one for automation, most people will agree 2016 has a lot to answer for. Still, let’s not consign it to history just yet: the year that was holds valuable lessons for us all.

For this reason, as always, PayProp Rental Index 2016 takes great care in cataloguing and analysing the issues that defined the year under review. Drawn from transactional data relating to more than 85,000 active leases on our trust account platform, the Index is the only one of its kind and the market’s leading source of rental market information. But with this Index we’re also excited to bring you something completely new – an investment model that further develops and refines our understanding of the rental market, and that we think you’ll find useful.

Finally, on a personal note, this will be the last Index that I write. Having knocked out 20 of these, I think it’s time to drop the mic! As from the next issue, we have the pleasure of welcoming a new editorial team, headed by Johette Smuts, PayProp SA’s new head of data and analytics. Armed with superior analytical skills, Johette will be tasked with making the PayProp Rental Index better, clearer and more useful to the market. I have no doubt that this is exactly what she and the team will accomplish together!

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