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Maintain your Property and Reap the Rewards

It would be fair to say that although the property market has rallied somewhat, it still has a long way to go before it could be described as ‘healthy’ once more. Despite this, property remains a good investment and it pays to ...

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Making fines stick in community schemes

The executives in many sectional title schemes and home owners’ associations (HOAs) use fines as a way of discouraging rule breaking by members or residents. At first glance this seems a good way of ensuring that the rules are ...

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South Africans Are Having It Tough

According to Mike Schüssler, chief economist at economists.co.za, more than 2.9-million households rent residential property in South Africa. Of these, 1.6-million rent formal structures. At this stage about 700 000 households ...

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Glorious France

By the time you read this, I will be wending my way back to South Africa after spending five weeks in Europe and the UK. I landed at Manchester airport after what seemed a marathon trip and left for France early the next ...

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Buy a Home and Start Getting Rich

If you want to start getting wealthy, do whatever it takes now to get a bond and buy a home. If you want to stay poor, get a personal loan and spend it on all the things that make you feel rich now. That’s the real – and simple ...

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Valuable Hints for Potential Home Buyers

The purchase of a home is often the biggest financial commitment that a person makes; yet it is surprising how many buyers go into such transactions with minimal preparation and without the information that will enable them to ...

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Beware of Buying too Much Home

Given the strict provisions of the National Credit Act, it is virtually impossible these days for prospective homeowners to buy at the outside margin of their affordability. 

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Consider Everything Before You Buy

Given that it is much more cost-effective to buy an existing home than it is to build a new one, South African home buyers should consider their choices carefully. At one stage it was a ...

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Renovate and Deliberate, Moving out or Staying?

This most frequently asked question is best deliberated with the professionals, because builders say they have lived through more renovations than home owners, and actually do know best. Says one happy family who decided to ...