Build or Get Built

Property is often called the safe road to wealth, but the picture painted online skips the real work: choosing a location, running the numbers, finding tenants, and covering maintenance. If you want to invest in South African property, you need to know whether the maths works before you sign anything.

Build or Get Built is about the maths. You start with why property and why now, then work through the investment calculations many people skip. You will learn how to analyse a location, calculate rental yield, and understand funding through bonds, stokvels, and creative structures. The book gives the full picture on buy-to-let, compares building with buying, and takes a careful look at township property as an emerging asset class. A chapter covers the tax side of owning rentals.