Cape Town’s ongoing dispute over rent control has stepped into sharper focus, with Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis arguing that ...

In a meeting on Wednesday, the Cape Town city council approved, in principle, a proposal to sell Woodstock Hospital for a ...

In 2025, Cape Town's property market showcased a striking dichotomy: from record-breaking luxury sales to a burgeoning ...

Despite soaring rents, Hill-Lewis argues that capping prices would shrink housing supply and worsen affordability.

As rental costs climb in Cape Town, calls for rent control are growing louder, but warnings are just as strong.

A new documentary, Mother City, spotlights the ongoing housing crisis and inequality in Cape Town. Directed by Miki ...

What is in no doubt is that spatial apartheid remains rudely alive and unacceptably real in Cape Town. Anyone in authority who claims it isn’t is either worryingly dishonest or dangerously arrogant.

The uncomfortable truth is that Cape Town’s housing stress is not foreign-made, investor-made, or Airbnb-made. It is ...

A woman questioned a tiny 25 m²-sized Sea Point apartment priced at R3 million and fuelled national concerns about ...

This article by Patricia de Lille first appeared in Cape Town This Week, the online newsletter of the Mayor of Cape Town.