Exclusive: Mall landlord and new Sandton Convention Centre owner Pareto eyes JSE listing

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Welcome to the latest episode of The Property Pod, South Africa’s premier real estate investor podcast, which now also features as a video on our YouTube channel MoneywebTV.

Our guest on this week’s show is no stranger to the industry or this podcast. We have had him a couple of times before.

He is the CEO of unlisted property giant, Pareto Limited, which now owns Sandton Convention Centre and some of the hotels around it following a big R1-billion-plus deal with Liberty and Standard Bank Group (SBG). It also owns some of SA’s largest super-regional shopping centres.

Listen/read:
Pareto secures 100% of Sandton Convention Centre and prime hotels in R1.1bn deal
Southern Sun’s hotel occupancies boosted by G20, transient demand
Durban is being fixed and is delivering for Southern Sun again

On previous episodes over the past few years, Kekana has been very vocal about poor service delivery and the lack of leadership at the City of Joburg.

When he was last on the podcast in February 2025, he gave us an update on recent upgrades at The Pavilion and Menlyn Park.

Pareto also has international exposure after it bought some of Atterbury Europe’s retail properties a few years ago.

Listen/read:
Menlyn Park, Pavilion owner upbeat on mega mall growth
Pareto becomes major mall owner in Cyprus
Joburg needs the finest people to lead the city – Malose Kekana

Besides the recent Sandton deal with SBG, it has big plans ahead for its largest retail assets in SA, including residential apartment blocks and hotels to create precincts around these shopping centres.

But arguably the biggest news from the interview for property investors is that Pareto is investigating listing on the JSE, as Kekana exclusively reveals on this episode of The Property Pod. He says the group is looking at listing on Africa’s biggest bourse within the next three years.

Kekana also talks about the group’s growth over the past decade and shares latest insights on its other expansion plans, including updates on some of its current property developments.

Listen/read:
Pareto and Divercity partner on R850m residential development at Menlyn Park
Standard Bank Group’s L2D expects big G20 Summit boost for Sandton [May 2025]

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