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Downsizing to luxury

Deciding to move from your sizable and comfortable home in suburban areas like Fresnaye or Constantia, to an apartment block within the city bowl, or even the Atlantic Seaboard, can be a difficult decision. It could be ...

Property Advice

The importance of finding the right landlord

Reams has been written about the importance of finding the right home when you are in the market to buy. Likewise, the importance of finding the right tenant is discussed at every opportunity but strangely, very little is said ...

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Insist on a non-variation clause

Leave nothing to chance by insisting on inserting a non-variation clause in all your property contracts. Although it has been stated time and again that any changes to a contractual agreement should be reduced to writing, it ...

Evictions - acting illegally can backfire
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Evictions - acting illegally can backfire

A developer's plans to build up-market houses on a 6000m2 piece of land in Fairlands in Johannesburg has backfired, thanks to a High Court judgement which has found that the elderly couple who have lived in a house on the ...

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Beware the existing tenant

Buyers who purchase a property that houses a tenant need to understand that the lease agreement that the previous owner has in place will remain in place until that lease expires - even if the ...

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Only an attorney can evict

Social media makes us all well aware of the problems others are facing – and some of those stories are heartbreaking. Desperate pleas for alternate accommodation for those who are being evicted from their homes have become ...

Lifestyle and Decor

The true cost of a free lunch

I've never been one to write about personal stuff. However the goings-on over this last weekend made me rethink this policy. I was asked to help my seven-month-pregnant daughter and her lovely husband to move home. Actually, ...

Lifestyle and Decor

Haunted houses: the next market bubble?

Looking to occupy a new home? Get to know the provisions of the National Haunting Regulations before you do. That’s the opinion of SpookedProperty.co.za principal agent, Ivan Terfritenya. He said that South Africa remains a ...

Agent Advice

Rental agents: this attorney’s working for you!

Have you ever been confronted with questions from landlords and tenants, changes to the law, issues with leases etc that you need assistance with?

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