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market becomes tougher for prospective homeowners , with rising interest rates and inflation , more people will enter the private rental market instead and stay longer in their properties .
PayProp sees the population of tenants growing and is now the advancing age of tenants . This is an exciting opportunity for rental agents themselves to grow their portfolios , and PayProp will be looking to support that growth opportunity , processing the rental money flows of a growing portfolio of estate agents who are growing their books . Beyond that , we ’ ll want to look at regions and sectors that we ’ re not that active in such as commercial , industrial and social housing sectors .
Jabulile ‘ Jabu ’ Mazibuko - Property Practitioner at Law Real Estate
Born and bred in the city of Gold , Johannesburg , Jabulile ‘ Jabu ’ Mazibuko was raised by a “ tough as nails ” and highly driven single mom and is now raising her own daughter and following in her mother ’ s footsteps of entrepreneurship .
Jabu has always been creative and after matriculating from St Andrews High School for Girls in Bedfordview , she studied fine arts for a year at Rhodes University . Thereafter she went on to study programming and networking and received a Bachelor of Computing Degree from Monash University . Jabu started a stationery business , followed by a funeral business where she was a funeral director for five years .
In 2012 Jabu had the opportunity to acquire an Interior Decorating Certificate at Inscape College while she was still in the Funeral Industry . In 2018 , Jabu responded to a Law Real Estate online advert looking for Real Estate Agents . Jabu had been a client for 10 years , however , knew very little about Real Estate as an agent . She embraced the challenge and is loving every part about the Real Estate world .
Fledging out on her own with her own team of agents working under her guidance , season 2 of the ‘ Lising Jozi ’ the BBC Lifestyle channel 174 will see Jabu broadening her network as well as area of expertise from not just the South of Jozi , but also showcasing areas like the Vaal , Serengeti , Dainfern , Hurlingham
21 JULY / AUG 2023 SA Real Estate Investor Magazine