David FriedlandThis article showcases our top picks for the best South Africa based Property Management companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Property Management industry, but are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top South Africa Property Management Companies
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Flow
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Flow is an app that makes renting easier, more affordable, and more rewarding. Tenants can get up to 20% of their rent back in rewards, every month.
Landlords have an easy way to track their properties, collect rent on time, and communicate with their tenants. Visit https://flow.rent for more info..
Property24
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Property24.com is South Africa’s number 1 Real Estate website. The website offers you the ability to browse through Estate Agents’ properties for rent and for sale, with a total of over 300 000 properties listed on the site.
You can search for property by city, suburb or street name and request an extensive valuation report, which includes a property and municipal valuation, transfer and sold-price history, suburb trends, comparative sales and registered property details.. .
Propr (previously airManaged)
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We will manage your Airbnb so you don’t have to. Earning you a higher income with none of the hassle.
Melana Development
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Melana Development is a retail property development company focusing on the LSM 4-7 market.
Lightstone
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Lightstone is a dynamic company, providing comprehensive data, analytics, and systems on property, automotive, and business assets. It has access to unique and proprietary data sets, which allow users to build sophisticated analytics and spatial models to deploy a variety of technologies to a range of industries.
Lightstone consists of various companies all operating within a specific information field such as Lightstone Property, providing property information to banks, insurers, and real estate agents; Lightstone Auto, providing data-driven insight, online market intelligence, and new vehicle sales data to the South African motor industry; and Lightstone Business, a dynamic business credit bureau providing business knowledge solutions to a wide range of companies in various industries and sectors. Lightstone was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Bryanston, the United Kingdom..
Nthwese Developments
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Nthwese Developments is a black-owned property development and management company formed in 1993. The company has developed a formidable track record within the South African property investment and development industry with expertise spanning across a range of sectors which include: Retail, offices, and Residential.
Nthwese owns a property portfolio of dominant retail malls anchored by national retailers in non-metropolitan areas and government tenanted office buildings in Gauteng and Mpumalanga Province. Nthwese’s strong and sustained footprint within the property development and investment industry is underpinned by a strong balance sheet and strategic relationships particularly with South African financial institutions and various industry stakeholders..
Instant Property
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Instant Property’s robust property-centric technology is exponentially transforming the way real estate professionals do business.
Umhlanga Arch
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Umhlanga Arch is the premier mixed-use and people-centred property.
Totalstay
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As a turn-key serviced apartment and hotel management solution, we take care of every aspect of handling your investment. From branding, marketing and guest reservations, all the way through to day-to-day logistics and maintenance.
Our combination of hospitality excellence and world class service has resulted in an annual average of over 85% occupancy and excellent returns in a competitive market. Creating a better way to stay.
Having established ourselves as a recognisable hotel and hospitality brand, we pride ourselves on delivering excellence to both our guests and partners. Our growing portfolio of serviced apartments and luxury villas offers travellers better value, as they enjoy the perks and service of a hotel, with the flexibility and freedom of a home.
This innovative approach to short-term accommodation is becoming increasingly popular for both leisure and business travellers. As a turn-key property solution partner, we handle every aspect of managing your investment.
You also get the added benefit of a trusted hospitality brand marketing your property. All these factors help to achieve the best possible income returns.
• Branding & Marketing • Central Reservations • Revenue Management • Guest Relations & Concierge • Property Management & Maintenance • Housekeeping & Linen Control • Financial Reporting • HR & Training • IT/Systems • Procurement & Inventory Control. .
Ithala Development Finance Corporate
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Ithala Development Finance Corporate offers financial and property services.
PropSys
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PropSys offers property management solutions for the real estate industry on hosted and on-premises platforms. Clients include managing agents, property owners, corporate entities and listed property funds.
PropSys has excellent client relationships that date back over four decades, with products for the real estate industry that create efficiency, leverage economies of scale and serve clients with innovative, user-friendly reporting and online functionality.. .
Forj
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Forj provides virtual reality property solutions. At Forj, they take virtual tours to a whole new level.
By emerging the viewer in a crisp, 8k-video or photo, 360 tour of commercial, industrial and residential properties, they help properties sell faster and become more accessible to potential buyers. These tours can also be viewed in VR.
They use the latest technology, top of the market 360 cameras and world class software to create a High Definition, 360-degree, panoramic virtual tour or “walk-through”, of your real estate properties. These include townhouses, commercial office suites, landed and residential properties.
Their 360 walk-through videos and photos are an excellent marketing tool and adds value for property developers, realtors, property marketing agencies, real estate agents and property advertising websites. Forj’s virtual tour videos and photos can also be added onto a property developer’s website, property advertising websites, and social network sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc..
TPN
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TPN is a credit bureau in Africa to specialize in vetting tenants for rental properties.
Texton Property Fund
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Texton Property Fund is a property investment fund that invests directly in income producing properties that offers potential.
Kgoro Central
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Kgoro Central is an unprecedented mixed-use development above and adjacent to the Sandton Gautrain station.
V&A WATERFRONT
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The V&A Waterfront is a 123-hectare mixed-use destination, and one of Africa’s most visited cultural and historical hubs. Set on the edge of a natural, historic working harbour with the iconic Table Mountain as its backdrop, it offers local and international visitors a cosmopolitan mix of experiences ranging from leisure, shopping and exclusive entertainment.
It also offers prime residential and commercial property. The prime positioning of the V&A Waterfront boasts sweeping views of the ocean, city bowl and mountain peaks.
Up to 100 000 people visit every day during peak season. Contributing R259.1 billion in nominal terms to the South African economy over the last 12 years, the V&A Waterfront’s cumulative contribution to the provincial GGP since 2002 was over R227 billion.
An economic impact assessment released in 2015 showed that the V&A Waterfront was directly responsible for the creation of more than 19 000 jobs across the property. With 22 official landmarks on-site, it is also part of South Africa’s historical legacy.
Jointly owned by Growthpoint Properties Limited and the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), represented by the Public Investment Corporation Limited (PIC), the V&A Waterfront was developed in 1988 by the state-owned transport corporation, Transnet Limited, while official commercial trading commenced in November 1990.. .
PropertyMogul.co.za
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PropertyMogul is a Premier Real Estate and Alternative Investment Marketplace
Resilient REIT
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Resilient REIT is a real estate investment and property management company.
This article was written by David Friedmman from Welp Magazine. The editor for this article was Tess Page. If your company is featured in this article and you want to have amendments made please contact us on: [email protected].
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