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Spring Clean And Get Ready To Sell

With spring underway and temperatures rising, more and more homeowners may want to take advantage of the fact that there are generally higher volumes of buyers visiting show houses during the warmer months, says Adrian Goslett, ...

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Take Advantage of the Lower Rate

It seems that most of us are constantly bemoaning the state of the economy, rising basic service costs, the price of petrol and the exorbitant food prices. However, there is some good news out there - the repo rate has remained ...

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How To Get Home Mortgage Finance

The demand for home mortgage finance is growing stronger month by month - but those involved in helping the public still find that they are up against a surprising amount of ignorance and misinformation among clients, says Mike ...

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The Many Positives of Homeownership

The Rawson Property Group’s experience over the last two or three years has confirmed that owning a home improves an individual’s – and his family’s – sense of self-worth and reinforces the bread-winner’s determination to earn ...

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Tip Of The Iceberg

Property prices in most parts of London never truly felt the effects of the economic fallout. The demand for property in this cosmopolitan city continued to climb as the demand for homes grew. London is always going to be a ...

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How Many Warning Labels Do We Need?

I’ve regaled you with tales of my DIY ineptitude before but every once in a while I read something that make me feel a great deal better about my inability to fix things. We’ve been toying with the idea of getting new bathroom ...

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Market Settling Into 'New Normal'

Since coming off the boom of the mid-2000s, housing market activity appears to have settled into a “new normal”. So says Steven Barker, head of home loans at Standard Bank who notes that while building activity has slowed ...

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Four challenges faced by investment landlords

Landlords are often seen as villains who ask for exorbitant deposit fees which they are reluctant to give back, and who press their tenants mercilessly for rent money every month. The truth is, however, that landlords can often ...

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Golden rules of property investment (article 2 of 8)

Just as producing a beautiful wine or quality whisky takes time, so too does reaping the benefits of property investment. Property investment is not a get-rich-quick scheme, but rather an investment that matures over the longer ...