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Questions For Buyers To Ask Agents

South Africans spend somewhere north of R500-million a month on estate agent commissions. If you are a home buyer then follow these tips to make sure you ask the right questions and get your money’s worth: How long has this house ...
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Cathy Nolan
11 Jul 2013

The Tenant-landlord-body corporate triangle

Many, many sectional titles units are bought as investments and the sections occupied by tenants – I wonder what the proportion is? Normally, the lease of a property gives rise to two relationships: the relationship between the ...
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Paddocks
11 Jul 2013

Homeownership Increasing Steadily

Figures extracted from the national Deed Offices of South Africa for the information of the Rawson Property Group’s franchisees and clients reveal that the much-publicized increase in sales in the lower section of the ...
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Press
10 Jul 2013

The Ghosts of Nkandla Return

The Mail and Guardian, by invoking the Promotion of Access to Information Act, has recently been able to lay its hands on 12 000 pages of material surrounding the Nkandla saga and while the newspaper admits that the documents in ...
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Lea Jacobs
10 Jul 2013

Take the Gloves Off and Get Out of the Ring

The relationship between a landlord and his tenant is often fraught with tension. Just ask the average unhappy tenant and he will most likely tell you that his landlord's sole ambition is to rip him off and make his life as ...
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Lea Jacobs
10 Jul 2013

Questions For Buyers To Ask Agents

South Africans spend somewhere north of R500-million a month on estate agent commissions. If you are a home buyer then follow these tips to make sure you ask the right questions and get your money’s worth:   How long has this ...
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John Graham
09 Jul 2013

The Gift That Keeps On Giving...Disappointment

I don’t know why but I seem to have a slew of friends with birthdays in July. I always used to get excited at the thought of going to birthdays. It was a chance to chug down litres of beer and cheap vodka and impress friends ...
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Shaun Wewege
09 Jul 2013

Obama’s Cape Visit Was An Enlightening Affair

Heavy traffic congestion while travelling from Simonstown last Sunday afternoon brought to a halt the short lived driving lesson for our teenager. It necessitated a change of route that made for a jerky journey via the Fish Hoek ...
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Anna-Marie Smith
09 Jul 2013

Income Tax on Rental Income

Daleen Malan, Senior Associate at Werksman Attorneys says homeowners should consider the income tax implications triggered by renting out their properties, as it relates to rental periods. Rental income received by or accrued to ...
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Anna-Marie Smith
09 Jul 2013

Sectional titles - know the rules

Many security-minded South African homeowners have taken to living in sectional title homes due to the certain level of safety that this type of property provides.
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Adrian Goslett
09 Jul 2013