Just more than 2,200 residential properties worth nearly R900m changed hands in Soweto last year. That’s the highest annual sales value recorded in the history of South Africa’s largest township.

Soweto, on the southwestern outskirts of Joburg, has a footprint of about 200km² and is home to an estimated 1.3-million people, almost a third of the city’s total 4.4-million population. ..

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