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Know the market.

The same property numbers the banks use — FNB, Stats SA, Absa, the Reserve Bank — gathered in one place, in plain language, and made free for everyone.

Last updateOctober 2025
Data sourcesStats SA · FNB · Absa · BIS
CostFree, always
FNB HPI · y/y 4.7% FNB · Dec 2025
Stats SA · y/y +6.5% Freehold · Mar 2025
Real RPPI · y/y +1.8% Index 2010=100 · October 2025
The long view

Sixty years of South African property, in one chart.

Lime is what you pay. Moss is what your home is actually worth in today's money, after inflation.

Source: Bank for International Settlements, residential property price index, distributed via FRED. Index, 2010 = 100. Quarterly.

Where the market is moving

Year-on-year, by province and metro.

By province

  • Northern Cape +8.2%
  • Western Cape +7.4%
  • Free State +7.0%
  • Mpumalanga +6.8%
  • KwaZulu-Natal +6.1%
  • North West +6.0%
  • Limpopo +5.5%
  • Gauteng +5.2%
  • Eastern Cape +4.8%

By metro

  • City of Cape Town +7.9%
  • eThekwini (Durban) +5.8%
  • City of Tshwane +5.0%
  • City of Johannesburg +4.6%
  • City of Ekurhuleni +4.4%

Source: Statistics South Africa, Residential Property Price Index (P0160), March 2025.

From the latest reports

What the institutions are saying.

Plain-language summaries of the most recent official SA property publications, with the source link.

FNB 10 Dec 2025

FNB Property Barometer — November 2025

House price growth decelerating from 5.0% in October. The FNB market strength demand index spiked to the highest level since June 2008, possibly an early signal of buyer activity responding to the inflation target change and rate cut.

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FNB House Price Index (y/y) 4.7%
Stats SA 22 May 2025

Residential Property Price Index — March 2025

Freehold property prices up 6.5% year-on-year. Month-on-month growth of 0.5%. Source data is registered property transactions at the Deeds Office.

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RPPI for freehold properties (y/y) 6.5%
BIS / FRED 10 Apr 2026

Real Residential Property Prices for South Africa

Real (CPI-deflated) residential property prices remain well below the 2010 baseline. Q4 2025 reading of 89.5 indicates a long-run decline in real terms despite nominal growth.

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Real RPPI (index, 2010=100) 89.5
Absa 01 Nov 2025

Absa Homeowner Sentiment Index — Q3 2025

Quarterly gauge of consumer confidence in the property market. Used as a leading indicator for buying intention.

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Homeowner Sentiment Index See report
Suburb drilldown

Data for 1 234 suburbs across two SA metros.

Property counts, typical values, and typical sizes for 595 eThekwini + 639 Cape Town suburbs — from the public valuation rolls.

Suburbs covered 1 234 595 eThekwini · 639 Cape Town
Residential properties 1 185 064 Across all 1 234 suburbs
Total market value (est.) R1642.02B eThekwini: mean · Cape Town: median × count

Largest eThekwini suburbs

Largest Cape Town suburbs

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Sources: EDGE Open Data Portal — 2022 Valuation Roll Summary (as of 2022-06-09, CC-Attribution) and City of Cape Town Open Data Portal — Valuations Suburbs 2018 and 2022 (as of 2022-07-01, City of Cape Town Open Data Policy). See methodology for the median vs mean difference.

How we do it

Erfie is built entirely on free, public data — never scraped, never licensed from a third-party listing site. We link you to the source for every number. Read the full methodology →

Try it

Look up any eThekwini property.

Free municipal valuation lookup for Durban and surrounds, paired with suburb context from FNB and Stats SA.