{"id":20354,"date":"2026-02-10T02:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20354"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:23:05","slug":"dealmaker-deluxe-vukiles-laurence-rapp-sees-more-deals-coming-in-spain-and-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20354","title":{"rendered":"Dealmaker deluxe: Vukile\u2019s Laurence Rapp sees more deals coming in Spain and SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/iframe.iono.fm\/e\/1644142?layout=modern\" width=\"100%\" height=\"170\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to The Property Pod, South Africa\u2019s premier property investor podcast, right here on Moneyweb.<\/p>\n<p>On this weekly pod and vodcast, we gain insider insights from leading CEO, analysts, developers and entrepreneurs in the country\u2019s dynamic real estate sector.<\/p>\n<p>Listen\/read:<br \/>SA \u2018on the right path to investment-grade rerating\u2019 \u2013 Redefine\u2019s Ntobeko Nyawo<br \/>\u2018Incredible\u2019 performance for SA property stocks, but what will 2026 hold?<br \/>Upper echelons: Estienne de Klerk talks hot property and leadership<br \/>Stellar 2025 for listed property, and these were the top Property Pod episodes<br \/>Nigel Payne talks corporate governance, exec pay and SA\u2019s municipal collapse<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This podcast will continue on iono and other podcasting platforms, but look out for the video on MoneywebTV \u2013 Moneyweb\u2019s YouTube channel \u2013 soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cash-flush JSE-listed real estate investment trust (Reit) Vukile Property Fund is on a deal-making spree again, it seems.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the end of last year, it announced it was buying a 50% stake in Chatsworth Centre from Sanlam, and on the international front there are the big-money euro deals in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>It announced the sale of its retail parks in its Spanish subsidiary Castellana at the end of January in a \u20ac279 million deal, which is around R5.2 billion, and days later \u2013 last week \u2013 said it is using part of those funds to buy another dominant regional shopping centre in Spain for over \u20ac100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Read:<br \/>Cash-flush Vukile eyes acquisitions after R5.2bn Spanish retail parks sale<br \/>Vukile buys 35% of global retail platform Pradera<br \/>Bullish Vukile Property Fund upgrades forecast growth to 9%<br \/>Vukile\u2019s Castellana captures mall market in Spain and Portugal<br \/>Vukile seals R6bn Spanish deal for Valencia\u2019s biggest mall<\/p>\n<p>But it is not done \u2013 there are more deals in the pipeline, in both Spain and SA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And who knows, maybe in other new jurisdictions soon, with the company also buying a sizeable stake in a property services company based out of London called Pradera.<\/p>\n<p>To tell us more and share deeper insights on the acquisitions, sales and future plans, we have the Group CEO of Vukile back on the podcast. He is Laurence Rapp, and he leads a team that is one of the busiest SA Reits on the dealmaking front in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><em>* You can listen to the full podcast above or download it from<\/em><em>\u00a0iono,\u00a0Spotify\u00a0or\u00a0Apple Podcasts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For previous episodes of The Property Pod,\u00a0click\u00a0here.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Moneyweb\u2019s in-depth finance and business news on WhatsApp here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\">\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '779812924991616');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script>#Dealmaker #deluxe #Vukiles #Laurence #Rapp #sees #deals #coming #Spain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can also listen to this po&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[3917,12408,1466,11407,12410,12411,564,3469,12409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}