Life at Home

When it comes to property insights, Private Property doesn’t stop at the structural and financial aspects but extends to the interior as well. In the dynamic Lifestyle and Décor section, visitors get a colourful glimpse of the interior trends, landscaping solutions, home living and neighbourhood news. Here’s a look at the categories you can find in Lifestyle and Décor:

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Beware the burning CD
Lifestyle and Decor

Beware the burning CD

You can forgive the average South African for being paranoid about crime, given that we live in a country that has extremely high crime statistics. Urban legends generally feed off paranoia and ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Haunted houses: the next market bubble?

Looking to occupy a new home? Get to know the provisions of the National Haunting Regulations before you do. That’s the opinion of SpookedProperty.co.za principal agent, Ivan Terfritenya. He said that South Africa remains a ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Bitten by the DIY bug – and loving it

Nephew Fixit was on a roll. Fortunately his new home was spacious enough for fabulous renovations, and even more fortunately, he had the budget. For us galpals over coffee, we felt fortunate too ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Special rates = super living

Previously known as City Improvement Districts, Special Rating Areas (SRAs) enable communities to improve, secure, maintain and uplift residential areas. The process requires agreement by 60% of property owners in a municipal ...

Agent Advice

Face it! You gotta be on Facebook!

To market your business successfully on Facebook, you need to understand Facebook’s unique opportunities, and how it differs from other media.

Lifestyle and Decor

DIY for coffee drinkers

He may, some suggest, have more money than sense, but when our nephew Fixit started throwing his young fortune at home improvements that we’d barely heard of, we have to admit we felt an interesting mixture of envy, admiration ...

Property Advice

Buying? Investigate urban crime!

You would think, given the high levels of crime in this country, that those in power would do everything possible to get their facts straight first-time around. However, the annual crime statistics released last week indicate ...

Lifestyle and Decor

SPF40 for your home

Happily, with the exception of a few pockets around the country, winter is already a distant memory. It’s time to breathe a collective sigh of relief, pack away the down duvets, scarves and beanies, and summer-ready your ...

Serious about security
Lifestyle and Decor

Serious about security

Judging by a number of recent reports, securing your home using hi-tech devices may not necessarily be the way to go. Forget alarm systems, turn off your CCTV cameras and infra-red beams and buy a coffin. Yes, it does seem a ...

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