Cairo’s commercial real estate market is showing growth, with major companies looking for up to 15,000 square metres of office space, according to the latest report from consultants Jones Lang LaSalle.

The first phase of a $400 million multi use development project in the heart of downtown Khartoum, Sudan, has been completed.

Occupier demand in Middle East and Africa region office market is expected to grow despite recent turmoil in the area with Angloa and Nigeria leading the way.

A new project available to buy under the Integrated Resort Scheme (IRS) in Mauritius that allows property investors to acquire Mauritian residency and the fiscal benefits that brings has been launched.

Residential property prices in Kenya slowed in real terms in the second quarter of 2011 when rising inflation hit buyers' hard, according to the latest HassConsult real estate index.

Egypt is to set up a committee to settle problems surrounding a string of legal challenges to sales of state land to real estate developers that have shaken confidence in the country property sector.

The residential real estate market in Cape Town, South Africa, is currently a classic buyers’ market in with properties taking 19 weeks on average to sell and then with only 15 % of vendors achieving their asking price, a new report reveals.

Confidence is returning to the South African real estate market and the country’s inclusion this year in the BRIC group of major emerging markets is set to boost foreign investment.

A Russian developer has launched a multi billion dollar property development on the northern outskirts of Kenya’s capital Nairobi to cash in on a booming real estate market in east Africa’s biggest economy.

Direct commercial real estate transaction volumes are predicted to increase by 30% in 2010 in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, according to a new report.

Buyer confidence is returning to the real estate market in Cape Verde indicating that it is coming out of the general property downturn that has hit even popular emerging markets, it is claimed.

Real estate investors who bought property in fashionable suburbs of Nairobi to rent out are facing trouble as a price bubble hit the market, it is claimed.

The current shortfall in mid-priced residential real estate in Egypt will continue until 2012 and could push prices higher, it is claimed.

The South African government should make large tracts of state owned land available to developers free of charge to speed up the recovery of the country’s real estate market, it is claimed.

The new property tax law in Egypt is likely to be introduced gradually, the country’s president has confirmed.

A government investigation has been launched into soaring property prices in Kenya amid claims that Somali pirates are behind the unusual real estate boom which has seen prices increase three fold in the last few years.

Residential property prices in South African rose for a fourth month in November after the central bank cut interest rates and the recession ended, according to the country’s biggest mortgage lender.

Middle East based developers are increasingly looking to North Africa where demand for real estate is expected to grow both from nationals and foreign investors.

The residential property market in South Africa appears to be coping with the global downturn although concerns about a rising number of foreclosures are increasing.

US President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo today along with massive infrastructure investment is set to put the spotlight on Egypt where the real estate market will benefit, it is claimed.

Major property developers are looking to North Africa as a key emerging real estate market as it is largely unhindered by the global crisis and offers potential that can't be found elsewhere, it is claimed.

The first major equity finance real estate development project for middle income property investors has been launched in Kenya.

Rising sea levels and scarcity of water are the major challenges facing the Middle East and North Africa and need to be addressed by developers, according to a United Nations report to be published next month.

The real estate sector in Egypt continues to perform well as there is a large gap between supply and demand, it is claimed.