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Life- changing lessons for Building a Successful Property Investment Portfolio

In this podcast episode, we talk to Retha van Rooyen, entrepreneur and co-founder of M5 Property Addicts.

Retha bought her first property in 1998 as a protest to rentals. The property was a 2- bed townhouse that cost R127,000 (US$8600) at an interest rate of 24%, 5 years later she, sold the property for R550,000 (US$37,226) and used the profits from that sale to buy a new property...

How to Create different Cash Cycles as a Property Developer

In this week's podcast episode we talk to Sabelo Simelane, a full-time property developer and real estate agent.

Sabelo started off in Industrial Engineering, realized he didn’t like it and moved onto banking where he started learning about property development.

One day he had an aha moment where he realized he had 3 cars, but no wealth, in fact, his cars were depreciating in value...

How to get Funding for Commercial Property in South Africa

In this week’s episode of the #PropertyMagicians podcast, we talk to Christiaan Jansen, a consultant at 360 Finance.


Christiaan helps investors get funding for residential and commercial properties. We brought him on the show to talk to us about commercial property financing (student accommodation, owner-occupied and rental properties) and the requirements for funding in this space.