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Points to ponder when selling your home
Property Advice

Points to ponder when selling your home

A few tips to consider before you embark on selling your home privately or through and estate agent.

Why your home won't sell
Property Advice

Why your home won't sell

George Bernard Shaw* said it right when he said that “If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.” But it doesn’t take an economist to conclude that if you’re sitting with a house that won’t ...

Pricing your home to sell
Property Advice

Pricing your home to sell

Everyone, it seems, is an expert when it comes to pricing property. This  includes those mavericks among us who insist that it's their right to market their home at what ever price they choose.

Agent Advice

Important Announcement – EAAB deadline

The deadline is fast approaching for all those agents who had an FFC as at the 15th July, 2008. Many agents have not done anything about achieving the NQF qualification either level 4 or level 5. If ...

Pets peeves – residents who don’t obey the rules
Property Advice

Pets peeves – residents who don’t obey the rules

Hearing that a much-loved dog is going to have to find a new home is bound to pull more than a few heart strings.

Generators in Sectional Title Complexes
Property Advice

Generators in Sectional Title Complexes

By all accounts, load shedding is here to stay. While many will make do with candles, torches and solar lamps, there are others who may want to sidestep the inconvenience of load shedding completely and install a generator at ...

Agent Advice

Safety tips for estate agents

Crime is a problem in South Africa and estate agents who spend most of the day meeting strangers and showing them around properties are particularly vulnerable. Read how agents can keep safe.

Certificates of compliance needed before selling your house
Property Advice

Certificates of compliance needed before selling your house

Selling your house? You’re going to need a number of certificates of compliance before you do - and it’s just as well to get them done before you even put your property on the market. 

The question of body corporate fines
Property Advice

The question of body corporate fines

It is possible for a body corporate to impose legally enforceable fines if the body corporate has properly adopted a carefully drafted rule.