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Building on common property in sectional title

If a group of owners wish to build on a common property, what are the steps required to make this happen? For example, what would happen if the owners wanted to build a swimming pool? Individual owners can only build on the ...

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Balcony leakages

Balconies are a huge asset in any sectional title scheme, but they have an inconvenient tendency to leak rainwater onto balconies or units below, and this can all too often result in damages to several units. What is more, the ...

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Sectional title maintenance

If there is one issue which can be almost guaranteed to raise temperatures among sectional title property owners, it is the question of who is responsible for the maintenance of the three different types of property in sectional ...

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Unruly tenants will attract fines

One of the things that owners of sectional title units can find particularly difficult to accept, especially if they live far away from the scheme in which they have invested, is that they are, in terms of Prescribed Management ...

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Check before your appoint your Agent

The liquidation of Constantia Sectional Title Management (CSTM), one of the larger Gauteng companies operating in this field, should send a warning signal to every sectional title trustee and sectional title owners in South ...

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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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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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Investing in student accommodation

As long as there are universities, there will be a need for student accommodation. Here’s everything you need to know about student accommodation investment.

Landlords and electricity
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Landlords and electricity

Landlords in South Africa could well be forgiven for believing that the law gives their tenants all the rights.

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