You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here. Taking into consideration South Africa’s history and how important the housing issue is, especially for the lower end of the market, the latest guests on The Property Pod offer interesting insight into affordable housing and development in this sub-sector of the property industry. We have two guests on this episode – the founder and managing director of Alleyroads Group Ivan Pretorius, and the group’s commercial director Louise Oertel.
UK financier commits R500m to Divercity property fund SUREN NAIDOO: So exponential growth as it were there. What did you do before starting the company, Ivan? Did you envisage how big the company would become? IVAN PRETORIUS: [Chuckling] It’s always a dynamic question. I was quite luckily involved with rolling out quite a substantial number of projects for the Gauteng provincial government for the 2010 World Cup.