South Africa’s residential rental market began 2025 with its best performance in years according to the latest PayProp Rental Index. Average national rental growth reached 5.6% in Q1 2025, the strongest quarterly increase since Q3 2017 and pushing the average rental to R9 132.
Growth peaked in February 2025, which saw a year-on-year increase of 6% – the highest monthly growth recorded since August 2017.
The rise came amid a favourable inflation environment with CPI inflation falling from 3.2% in January and February 2025 to 2.7% in March 2025. The resulting gap between rental growth and inflation – 2.8% in February and March, marks the most significant real-terms rental gain…
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