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U.S. Real Estate Update – June 2014 – what you have to know

Nominal growth in the U.S. housing market continues in 2014. Existing home sales rose 1.3 percent to a 4.65 million unit pace. The gain was the first since December and was driven by a big uptick ...

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Six Things You Have to Know and Ask Before You Invest Offshore

For various different reasons, investors in growing numbers are looking to invest offshore. However in research done in 2010, over 80% of South African’s that invests offshore actually lose money. We want to assist you to avoid ...

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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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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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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 ...

Residential property is the exception in a lacklustre economy
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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...

The future of electric cars
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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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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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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.