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Sellers who add Value Create Optimum Appeal

The most important features a buyer looks at once an area and price range has been established, are aesthetics, functionality, security, and safety. Ideally, added value should correlate with innovation, feasible finances, and ...
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Anna-Marie Smith
12 Sep 2012

Green Homes Scarce, but Demand Rises

A fair proportion of Rawson Properties' clients now accept that it would be a good idea to live in a green home. One that reduces the consumption of energy and water, recycles its waste and needs relatively little ...
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Press
12 Sep 2012

Investing in student homes

Student housing is as important as what and where your child will study one day.
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Press
12 Sep 2012

Shared Ownership Woes

In recent years when home loans have been so difficult to come by, potential buyers have often been urged to pool their resources with friends or family members.
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Press
12 Sep 2012

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