Atterbury Asset Managers – part of the Atterbury Group - has been appointed to manage AttAfrica Limited’s burgeoning US$400.6-million portfolio of retail properties, effective from 1 January 2016. AttAfrica is a Mauritius-based property investment company focused on investing, developing and acquiring A-grade shopping centres in key sub-Saharan African Markets, excluding South Africa. Its selection of Atterbury Asset Managers as its partner is strategic as it is targeting a major liquidity event next year. Commenting

About 120 claimants from the Richmond Park community in Atlantis are busy with an eight-week training programme specifically in the building industry, i.e carpenters, tilers, bricklayers, painters, electricians. They will qualify in June and receive SETA accredited certification. We are currently looking for companies in the Western Cape that are willing to assist with job opportunities for the Atlantis community to be able to start earning money with their newly acquired skills. A big

Atterbury recently signed a landmark agreement with the Erasmus Trust to realise a multibillion-rand mixed-use development on the last remaining portion of a historical piece of land in Pretoria. We spoke to Carl Erasmus, whose family has owned the land for seven generations, about the meeting of history and a bright future Tell us more about the history of this site. The parcel of land is the final remaining unused portion of the historical

D-Day is upon us… after almost four years in development, Atterbury’s pride and joy, the Mall of Africa, is opening tomorrow. And by all accounts shoppers are in for a treat of note when they visit this massive 300-store shopping, lifestyle and entertainment destination this weekend. Here is your handy guide to navigating the mall so that you don’t miss anything! If I camp out in front of the entrance overnight so that I

Atterbury, South Africa’s leading property developer and investor, will be opening the doors to the R5-billion Mall of Africa this week to reveal a whole new world of shopping, as well as a magnificent assortment of new entertainment, leisure and dining options. With a choice of 300-plus stores, Mall of Africa also boasts a wide variety of restaurants, entertainment and services, neatly packaged into the largest single phase shopping mall the country has ever

Leading South African property developer and investor Atterbury today announced it will undertake a prime new multibillion-Rand development in Pretoria. Atterbury’s latest venture will be a modern, mixed-use commercial development on about 85ha of prime land, at the high-profile juncture of the N1 and R21 highways. The development will be similar to Atterbury’s staggering development Waterfall in Midrand, albeit on a different scale. Waterfall includes Southern Africa’s largest single-phase shopping centre development, Mall of

With just around five months and exactly six months to go before Rio Olympics and Paralympics swing into action respectively, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) launched an exciting campaign named ‘TeamSA Rise’ in Johannesburg on Monday, 7 March 2016. The #teamSArise viral campaign is aimed at supporting South Africa’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes as they make their final preparations to represent the nation at the biggest international sporting events. The campaign

After starting its European expansion last year with an investment in Cyprus, Atterbury Europe took the next step by partnering with one of Serbia’s leading property developers in December. We spoke to Atterbury Europe CFO Henk Deist about what 2016 holds in store With the Cyprus deal Atterbury owns the entire asset, but now in Serbia you have a local partner on the ground. What are the biggest operational differences? Having a competent partner

The Manna vir die Boere Konsert at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria was a resounding success that raised almost R2.5 million in emergency relief for South Africa’s drought-stricken farmers on Saturday 20 February. And, as if nature wanted to bless the project, the rain came pouring down when Laurika Rauch launched into the chorus of “Stuur Groete aan Mannetjie Roux”, the last song of the concert. The lyric “O stuur ons net ’n bietjie

Uplifting the community has been central to the thinking around Atterbury’s massive Richmond Park development in the Western Cape and early this year the new independent trust, the Richmond Park Treasury Trust, kicked off its work. Zahn Hulme gives some insight into what is planned for 2016. Atterbury already has Atterbury Trust; and a separate trust has been formed to look after the Richmond Park community. Why is that? In terms of the Richmond

Atterbury announced today the development of a new R650 million mall in the key Namibian port city of Walvis Bay. Atterbury is the joint developer and co-owner of the newly named Dunes Mall, previously called the Erongo Mall development. Bulk earthworks on the mall began in November 2015 and its doors are set to open to the public late next year. Louis van der Watt, CEO of Atterbury, comments: “We are delighted to launch

Atterbury will develop a R850 million industrial and business park on the prime site it has acquired in Gosforth Park, Germiston, in Ekurhuleni. A leading property investor and developer in South Africa and beyond, Atterbury has designed the ready-to-develop park to provide 103,000sqm of modern business space for blue-chip light industrial users requiring big box logistics warehouses as well as showrooms and offices. Superbly located at the intersection of the N3 highway and Rand