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About us

Africa's premier destination for relevant, trusted and empowering property intelligence.

Rode has pioneered South Africa's property research and analysis since 1987 — quarter by quarter, node by node, trend by trend.

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Our story.

Rode, founded in 1987 with a single conviction: South African property needed defensible, independent benchmarks. Tapping into the primary knowledge of those closest to the transactions via survey provided the best way to reveal the fundamental property trends at the coalface.

Four decades later, Rode is one of South Africa's most recognisable and enduring property market voices, offering retail and professional industry players a trusted reference point for key property fundamentals, market research, and forecast trends.

In 2024, The Valuator Group recognised the potential and acquired Rode, attracting further investment through leading proptech investment fund REdimension Capital. This investment provided the catalyst for transformation into a next-generation intelligence platform as the industry's premier source of market information.

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Four decades of ground-truth.

The depth bank risk committees ask for — and get nowhere else in the country.
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Decades of unbroken
quarterly data since 1987.
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Nodes covered across
all four sectors.
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Independent industry
expert sources.
2M+
Data points.
8,000+
Time series.
0%
Of SA's top-tier lenders
hold a subscription.
Methodology — in brief

Every rental, yield and cap-rate datapoint we publish is drawn from primary survey of landlords, brokers and valuers — not scraped listings. Triangulated against deeds-office transactions, peer-reviewed quarterly.

Primary survey

Thousands of broker, landlord and valuer responses per quarter.

Deeds triangulation

Cross-referenced against every deeds-office transfer, monthly.

Quarterly audit

Peer-reviewed by independent valuers before publication.

Audit trail

Every number traceable to its source — defensible at committee.

§ 03

The team.

Board
  • Gavin Commins
  • Peter Clark
  • Matthew Marshall
Executives
  • Stuart Commins CEO
  • Jess Moyer COO
  • Kobus Lamprecht Chief Economist
  • Phil Barttram Strategic Advisor
Team
  • Erwin Rode Editor-in-chief
  • Chris Loos Economist
  • Elizma Hawksley Subscriptions
  • Gemma-Louise Wright Head of Media
  • Mark Pettipher Publishing Director
  • Jenni McCallum Client relationship manager
  • Mauritz Smit Economist
  • Zita Gallenmuller Broker relationship manager