URERU SEMINAR 1 2024: NAVIGATING THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND AFRICAN HOTEL INVESTMENT LANDSCAPE
Covid 19 created scenarios that if forecast in 2018 would have been regarded as apocalyptic, bordering on science fiction. One of the sectors hardest hit was travel and tourism. The world came to standstill but now, almost five years later, South Africa is back on...
Navigating the Peaks and Valleys: Reflections on 2023 in the Property Industry and a Glimpse into the Future
It would seem that every year gets shorter and the issues get larger. And so it has been with theyear 2023. Loadshedding and a year of rising interest rates has placed the property industry underpressure. It has been reported that over 1200 businesses closed their...
WorkAgility: Pushing Boundaries
Although based in Cape Town, the Quoin Online team sits across the country, in Johannesburg,Pretoria, Durban and East London. We have been grappling with remote working prior to Covid andhave come to discover that two elements are required…..technology and trust. But more about ourremote working...
Wrapping Up 2022: A Retrospective and What’s to Come!
It seems unbelievable that three years ago we first started talking about COVID-19. Little did we know that the world was to be turned on its head and some of the far-fetched scenarios would become our reality: the whole world quarantined, not an airplane in...
URERU Seminar #1 – The State of the South African Property Market in 2022
Urban Real Estate Research Unit Seminar 1 – The State of the South African Property Market in 2022 Sponsored by Quoin Online As the grips of the pandemic have started to ease on how society interacts, the expectation on how many people would attend the Seminar was entirely...
We bid farewell to 2021, and face the unknown of 2022. A message from our CEO, Wayne van der Vent
Last year we looked to the start of 2021 with hope and expectation. Hope that the pandemic would miraculously have ended and expectant of a better year. Neither was necessarily to be, and for many the year was harder. It has been a year in...
A Way Forward
As seen within the South African market, the choice of asset classes is limited to the traditional four: office, retail, industrial and residential. These asset classes may perform well in the long term but are expected to churn out short term returns consistently. This creates...
How to Futureproof our Business Now
The coronavirus has rocked the entire world, shaking every corner of the globe with a fury that has been unmatched since the Second World War. A week is a long time in political life and even more so during this time. Markets are changing as...
WE CAN ALL MAKE A CHANGE
Quoin Online has supported an NGO programme in Kewtown, Athlone for the last two years. BABS (Build a Better Society) had been started almost 45 years ago by Professor Richard van der Ross (the first rector of UWC) and the first social worker in the...
Make Savings and Fill Spaces
Prior to the global pandemic which has, and will have, severe economic consequences, the property industry was taking strain. The Urban Real Estate Research Unit, based at the University of Cape Town, had concluded that the vacancy costs for a landlord had increased from 6...
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