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Why property buyers become cape residents

When Cape Town and surrounds is on the wish list of aspirant property buyers and tenants planning to re-locate, there is much more to discover than when on holiday. And when ...
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Anna-Marie Smith
11 Sep 2012

Top 5 Tips For Puppy Proofing your Home

The plan was simple. We would go look at the puppies, go home, discuss all that was needed to provide a dog-friendly home, puppy-proof the home and only then get pets. I was assigned the role of bad cop. It was my job to put up ...
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Shaun Wewege
10 Sep 2012

What is the best medium for advertising property for sale?

While many sellers of property insist that agents advertise their property in newspapers and local real estate magazines the fact is that these mediums are no longer effective advertising. If you want to know more, ask the estate ...
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Cathy Nolan
10 Sep 2012

Maintain your Property and Reap the Rewards

It would be fair to say that although the property market has rallied somewhat, it still has a long way to go before it could be described as ‘healthy’ once more. Despite this, property remains a good investment and it pays to ...
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Jacqueline Gray
06 Sep 2012

Making fines stick in community schemes

The executives in many sectional title schemes and home owners’ associations (HOAs) use fines as a way of discouraging rule breaking by members or residents. At first glance this seems a good way of ensuring that the rules are ...
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Paddocks
06 Sep 2012

South Africans Are Having It Tough

According to Mike Schüssler, chief economist at economists.co.za, more than 2.9-million households rent residential property in South Africa. Of these, 1.6-million rent formal structures. At this stage about 700 000 households ...
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Lea Jacobs
05 Sep 2012

Glorious France

By the time you read this, I will be wending my way back to South Africa after spending five weeks in Europe and the UK. I landed at Manchester airport after what seemed a marathon trip and left for France early the next ...
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Lea Jacobs
05 Sep 2012

Buy a Home and Start Getting Rich

If you want to start getting wealthy, do whatever it takes now to get a bond and buy a home. If you want to stay poor, get a personal loan and spend it on all the things that make you feel rich now. That’s the real – and simple ...
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Press
05 Sep 2012

Valuable Hints for Potential Home Buyers

The purchase of a home is often the biggest financial commitment that a person makes; yet it is surprising how many buyers go into such transactions with minimal preparation and without the information that will enable them to ...
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Press
05 Sep 2012

Beware of Buying too Much Home

Given the strict provisions of the National Credit Act, it is virtually impossible these days for prospective homeowners to buy at the outside margin of their affordability. 
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Press
05 Sep 2012