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Fundamental tasks of sectional title trustees
In its ongoing campaign to “educate” the trustees of bodies corporate and homeowners’ associations, IHFM, the fast-growing property management company, has time and again to remind them that certain basic tasks are their ...
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Michael Bauer
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25 Jun 2012
Resolving sectional title disputes
The growing popularity of arbitration rather than litigation in sectional title property disputes stems from its being both less expensive and faster.
The Sectional Title Act’s Prescribed Management Rule 71 was recently amended ...
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Michael Bauer
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25 Jun 2012
Sectional Title Schemes: The Rules
There are many cases where trustees and/or their members do not know the difference between management and conduct rules.
Conduct rules apply to the day to day business of living together in a complex or an estate where every ...
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Michael Bauer
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25 Jun 2012
Should I buy property now? YES!
Given the flood of advice from a whole host of residential property spokespeople that now is the right time to buy property, can this be seen as valid or is it simply simply self-serving?
Many investors are now divesting from ...
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Michael Bauer
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25 Jun 2012
Interest Rates and the Big Picture
The unpredictability of interest rates and the individual fiscal discipline of property owners is food for thought. Current global economic turbulence and local economic predictions for a tough six months ahead, is once again a ...
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Anna-Marie Smith
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22 Jun 2012
Property anti-freeze
Cars need anti-freeze in winter and so, it seems, do many potential homebuyers who find themselves stalled now in the search for a suitable property.
Part of the problem is that there is just so much to choose from in the current ...
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RealNet
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22 Jun 2012
That’s Not a Fixture!
Removing light fittings, the satellite dish and taking the automatic pool cleaner with you when you move out of the house that you have just sold may not seem that big a deal, but strangely it is the petty things that so often ...
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Lea Jacobs
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21 Jun 2012
Its not what you know
You can forgive buyers and sellers for being a little confused as to what is happening in the current property market – thanks in part to the mixed signals that are being sent.
Reports of house price increases for example don’t ...
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Cathy Nolan
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21 Jun 2012
Marias Steyn Park - Modern and Well Established
Marias Steyn Park is not one of those suburb names that trips off the tongue. Named after a long-forgotten politician the suburb sits alongside the N3 highway on the western boundary of Edenvale. The suburb, which sits among ...
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Ben Kelly
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20 Jun 2012
Sense the Peace at Vredenburg
A settlement reached on who would become the official owner of a fresh spring water fountain, was what determined the peaceful agreement that led to the naming of this West Coast town.
Now firmly placed on Cape maps, ...
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Anna-Marie Smith
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20 Jun 2012