Home owners

Constantly evolving regulations, a fluctuating market, ever-changing neighbourhoods… the property market is a constantly-moving industry that requires expert insight and knowledge. Private Property provides the latest news and advice on everything property related for all sides of the spectrum. In our one-stop Property Advice portal, you can find:

Property Advice

Don’t Sink Your Financial Ship

Rising utility costs, wage increases and the cost of maintaining a sectional title development have undoubtedly impacted on bodies corporate around the country. It can be said with a fair amount of certainty that bodies ...

Property Advice

How does security affect your property value?

Sobering crime statistics coupled with the fact that many families have been affected by crime either directly or indirectly, have made home buyers in SA some of the most security conscious.

Property Advice

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 ...

Property Advice

The benefits of buying sectional title

Purchasing a sectional title unit has proven to be very popular in South Africa for a number of reasons.

Property Advice

Know Your Body Corporate Rights

Investors who buy into a sectional title scheme need to understand that as owners, they are automatically part of the decision-making process, regardless of how active or inactive they are on the body corporate. Professor ...

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Warm up winter by getting into better financial shape for summer

Winter is the time when most local authorities raise their rates as well as their tariffs for water and electricity supplies.

Property Advice

The benefits of buying sectional title

Purchasing a sectional title unit has proven to be very popular in South Africa for a number of reasons, says Adrian Goslett, CEO of RE/MAX of Southern Africa.

Lifestyle and Decor

Increasing your property value

Your property is one of the largest investments you will make in your life time. Maintain that investment and increase the re-sale value with these steps.

Property Advice

Turning a bad building around

It sometimes happens that sectional title buildings encounter problems of mismanagement and become run down, even possibly unsafe in some cases and where the trustees have not taken due care of the management of the building. It ...


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