Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Property holding companies based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 199 property holding companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 3,341 professional contacts across them, including 1,071 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers property holding companies headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest property holding companies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 669 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Growthpoint is the largest South African primary listed REIT and a leading international property company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mowana Properties is a property management company registered with the Estates Agencies Affairs Board (EAAB) and operates in the general property market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 179 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ithemba Property Management offers a full range of property- and asset management functions to the landlord - of which, it is a shareholder.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Transnet Property is an operating division of Transnet SOC Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Africrest owns one of the largest middle income residential portfolios in South Africa and has become an industry leader in this asset class.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Created in 1967 in Polokwane, Limpopo Province, South Africa, Moolman Group evolved over the next 53+ years to become one of South Africa's most respected property investment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A matter of association Atterbury Property is a positive, resilient, community aware development and asset management business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TrueProp is a privately owned property investment company, originating from the Eastern Cape, with an established track record in the various property sectors - dealing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Strive we manage space like it’s our own.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Abland is a South African based property development company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Afhco Group commenced business in 1996, focusing on the redevelopment of Johannesburg inner city apartments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Twin City is a property investment company in the retail, residential, and commercial industries with assets in South Africa and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rebosis Property Fund Ltd was established by the Billion Group in 2010 and on 17 May 2011 became the first black-managed and substantially black-held property fund to be listed on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alley Roads is a leading black-owned, national-scale property developer and landlord founded in 2009.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1926 by the late Cosmas Cavaleros (Founder/Chairman), led by Penny Cavaleros (Chief Executive Officer) and Alexi Cavaleros (Head of International Acquisitions), The…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Horizon Capital is a “boutique” Property and Corporate Finance House based in Cape Town.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Property House Group, a family business founded in 1993 by the late Wim Boshoff in Bloemfontein.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ONE Property Holdings is a privately held commercial property investment company and property fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Real Estate in South Africa Just Property Prosper is a keystone real estate company that occupies a sizable percentage of the property market in South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “THE DALEGLEN PROPERTY GROUP With a proud history and track record dating back over 89 years, the Daleglen Property Group manages and leases a diverse portfolio of commercial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “https://boxwoodproperty.co.za” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stock Capital is a multi-disciplinary investment company with a proud history of delivering returns to our investors through residential and commercial real estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Investicore is a Property Investment and Asset Management Company, and our specialist experience and excellent track record stem from our passion for adding value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Who we are: Pacific Paramount Properties own and manage a property portfolio in South Africa with its niche in the acquisition of retail centres and commercial buildings from the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a well established family-run property investment and development company that is an emerging market leader, having invested from the ground up in many segments of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: property holding companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names property holding companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of property holding companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name property holding companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Property holding companies based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 199 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among property holding companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “property holding companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names property holding companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among property holding companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,071 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Property holding companies by metro
- Property holding companies in Johannesburg46
- Property holding companies in Cape Town30
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names property holding companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many property holding companies are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 199 property holding companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Growthpoint Properties, headquartered in Sandton, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most property holding companies?
Johannesburg leads with 46 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (30) and Pretoria (15).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,071 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 199 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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