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On Going Price Rises in Table View

A Rawson Table View agent, Laura-Lee van der Spuy, has now had 28 years of close association with the Cape Town West Coast suburb.  Her parents moved to Yzerfontein when she was one year old and she lived in Yzerfontein for 20 ...

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Few Defaulting Creditors Flying 'Under The Radar'

Just how important it has become to maintain a clean credit record, if you wish to apply for a mortgage bond on a home, has been shown by figures recently released by the National Credit Regulator’s CEO, Nomsa Motshegare. “If ...

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Have We Lost The Plot?

There are so many good reasons to invest in a property of your own, but unfortunately we seem to have lost sight of the benefits and turned our focus on the negative.

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Buy or Sell first - Which is better?

When it comes to time to sell, whether to upscale or downscale, there is always the dilemma of whether to buy another property first, subject to selling the current home or to sell the existing one first and then buy elsewhere, ...

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Factors that influence a property's value

It only takes a potential buyer a few minutes to make a decision when viewing property. Find out which factors influence a property’s value.

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The role of a trustee is not a full time job

There are many articles available regarding the roles of a trustee and almost all of them follow the same advice regarding management of levies, finances and the operations of the scheme ...

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What Are The Economic Realities of Buy to Let?

Last week’s group discussion lead by Ewald Kellerman, Head of First National Bank Home Loans around the buy to let market highlighted three major issues. It brought greater understanding of the financing behind private property ...

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Who Wants My Patronage?

I realised something this weekend. I’m a bit of an outsider. As a ginger you’d think this revelation wasn’t something new to me, but I found (another) reason why I’m often “mistakenly” left off invitations. You see, I enjoy ...

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Less Frogs, More Princes

While it is a fairly obvious statement, technology has radically changed the way we live. Think about it. In the last twenty years or so, we have gone from using a brick to make a cell phone call, to carrying around a mini ...