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Buy-to-let in townships now popularBuy-to-let investors are starting to add affordable housing units in former townships and surrounds to their rental portfolios, as more and more developers and banks enter this segment of the market.'Affordable' houses no longer cheap The cost to build starter homes in low-income areas, typically priced between R120 000 and R240 000, has surged by close to 50% over the past two and a half years.FNB project building homes in SowetoDemand for residential property in the townships has seen First National Bank's home loan sales soar by more than 20% in the bank's multi-million rand housing project in Glen Ridge, Soweto, over the past three months.