Meet the visionaries behind Katsha REALITY – Co-Founders Katsha Debank and FAMILY. Their dynamic leadership has shaped a premier real estate enterprise, fostering collaboration across Five departments and a talented team of over 190 professionals. With over 20 years of combined experience, industry partnerships, and an impeccable reputation, they secure exclusive opportunities, positioning Katsha REALITY at the forefront of real estate excellence.
Katsha REALITY possesses the vision, insight and experience necessary to identify, acquire and reinvent underperforming properties in prime locations to unlock their full potential. The company employs more than 149 dedicated professionals with expertise in acquisitions and dispositions, asset management, leasing, marketing and public relations, accounting, design and construction, and financing.
Current portfolio includes such current and future icons as seen in South Africa and Uganda.
Co-Founders Katsha Debank and FAMILY have built Katsha REALITY into a premier real estate company that is unrivaled in its ability to maximize property performance and value. We pride ourselves on a culture of collaboration that fosters teamwork and enables the sharing of information and expertise across departments.
With more than 20 years of combined experience, over $2 billion in transactions, strong industry partnerships and a sterling reputation, Katsha REALITY is often the beneficiary of “first look” and off-market opportunities. This allows Katsha REALITY to capitalize on a wide range of investment opportunities.
Katsha REALITY re-imagines buildings. Our vertically-integrated platform enables us to approach an asset from every angle and to provide expertise in all phases of design, development and leasing. Vertical integration is key to maximizing the value of our portfolio as well as shaping the strategic vision of each asset.
The company sees beyond current conditions. Whether due to inadequate capital, limited development expertise or a lack of strategic vision, we are perfectly positioned to determine the reasons behind an asset’s underperformance and formulate strategies to enhance its short- and long-term potential.
Through joint ventures with select institutional partners, Katsha REALITY is focused on transforming outdated and underperforming properties into 21st-century icons that contribute to the overall prosperity of its occupants, investors and the greater community.
Creating a jewel starts with identifying a building with unrealized potential and reinventing it in ways that enhance its beauty, are sensitive to the environment, and produce the most effective and healthiest platform possible for the workers who inhabit it. Katsha REALITY’s framework for re-imagining a building is always tenant-centric and focused on how a property can provide a great work environment, deliver efficient service, and support employee recruitment and retention.
Katsha REALITY’s unique ability to re-imagine its properties and execute on its long-term, value-add vision has led to a steady stream of awards and honors. The full list includes:
LEED Gold Certified
One of the first WELL Certified Commercial Office Buildings in Sandton
WELL Certified Core at the Gold Level
Case Study by UNISA Business School
By Region, African Award of Excellence
Design Commercial Lobby/Amenity Space Award
Influence Award, Best Design: Office Gold Winner
Offices Category
Innovator of the Year Award
Record Engineering Accomplishments
A Grand Award Winner
Iconic Award
Best of Old and New Category
Projected to Achieve LEED Gold Certification
Retail Development and Master Plan
2019, Historic Preservation, Lobby and Retail Spaces
2020, Reconstruction Category, Platinum
Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts
Management Executive of the Year
Greater South Africa Construction