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Rate this (shocking) service

Despite numerous assurances that the City of Johannesburg’s billing crisis is over, it appears the situation is far from ideal and that there are still many people who are trying to get their municipal rate issues resolved. In ...
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Lea Jacobs
22 May 2014

You can’t win it if you’re not in it!

Last year we partnered with SABC3’s Top Billing and millions of viewers watched over the 21 weeks of the competition as we gave away a lifestyle worth more than R5-million. And as more TV ...
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Cathy Nolan
15 May 2014

Living the green dream

Towards the end of April, the “My Green Home” challenge kicked off at the home of the Ngewanas, a family interested in living green. The challenge is an initiative of the Green Building Council ...
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Jacqueline Gray
15 May 2014

Residential property is the exception in a lacklustre economy

With a projected GDP growth rate for the year ahead of below 3% and with the business sector largely negative about the government’s ability to manage the economy better, these days...
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Rawson Property Group
13 May 2014

The future of electric cars

Naysayers insist that electric cars are a passing fad. Are they really just a supercharged flash in the pan or is the road to motoring’s future paved in electrons?
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Charleen Clarke
08 May 2014

Building better homes

Home maintenance and upgrades are seemingly on the rise. So says an estate agent survey conducted by FNB, which infers that overall, activity on this front is fairly robust. According to the survey, there has been a distinct ...
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Jacqueline Gray
30 Apr 2014

Repo rate rise

The recent increase in the repo rate by 50 basis points was met by surprise, as all indicators were that it would stay constant.
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Engel & VolkersSA
29 Apr 2014

Prospect of EU citizenship attracts international property buyers to Malta

The Maltese government has introduced a programme through which citizens from non-EU states can acquire Maltese citizenship.
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Engel & VolkersSA
25 Apr 2014

New “city” springs up in Joburg

Sandton and the City of Johannesburg may soon have competition in the form of Zendai Modderfontein, a new R84-billion “city” that is earmarked to occupy a vast tract of undeveloped land in Kempton Park. The development is the ...
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Jacqueline Gray
17 Apr 2014

Rate your utilities costs

Things are starting to get a little hairy for homeowners in and around the suburbs of South Africa as the increases in municipal rates and utilities really start to bite.
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Lea Jacobs
17 Apr 2014