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36. Capital management
  Hyprop’s capital consists of equity and long-term debt in the form of bank debt and debt capital market funding. The company’s capital management objective is to maintain a strong capital base to provide sustainable returns to shareholders over the long term. The company’s borrowings are limited by its Memorandum of Incorporation and the JSE Listings Requirements to 60% (2015: 60%) of the directors’ bona fide valuation of the consolidated property portfolio.

Hyprop’s unutilised borrowing capacity can be summarised as follows:

  GROUP
June 2016
R000
  GROUP
June 2015
R000
 
Value of property portfolio* 33 368 587   28 565 526  
60% thereof 20 021 152   17 139 316  
Total gross borrowings (long term and short term) 9 926 088   6 691 909  
Unutilised borrowing capacity 10 095 064   10 447 407  
* Refer to Segmental analysis

At year-end, long-term borrowings may become payable in accordance with the terms of the loan arrangements. The group’s policy is to refinance borrowings (in line with its capital objective above), whilst servicing interest. Following year-end R1,2 billion of bank debt matured. This was refinanced with debt capital market funding and accordingly no cash outflow was required to settle the maturing bank debt.

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