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It’s Not What You Know

You can forgive buyers and sellers for being a little confused as to what is happening in the current property market – thanks in part to the mixed signals that are being sent. Reports of house price increases for example don’t ...

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Lifestyles Of The Green And Famous

Often celebrities make headlines not for a new movie or album, but because they have been arrested for drunk driving, have had raunchy home movies find their way to the web or they’ve made stupid statements. The media seems to ...

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Building insurance - make the call

Getting Building Insurance is probably the most important thing when it comes to safeguarding your home. Here is everything you need to know about buildings and content insurance.

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Beverly - a top performer

The suburb of Beverley in Johannesburg is now at the top of many aspirant buyers’ lists. So says Cecile Leck of Lew Geffen Sotheby’s Lonehill which services the area.

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Bodies corporate - defaulting levy payers

Owners of sectional title units who run up substantial levy arrears and then try to sell their units without meeting these debts – or whose units are being sold in execution – will discover that ...

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Check before your appoint your Agent

The liquidation of Constantia Sectional Title Management (CSTM), one of the larger Gauteng companies operating in this field, should send a warning signal to every sectional title trustee and sectional title owners in South ...

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Fundamental tasks of sectional title trustees

In its ongoing campaign to “educate” the trustees of bodies corporate and homeowners’ associations, IHFM, the fast-growing property management company, has time and again to remind them that certain basic tasks are their ...

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Resolving sectional title disputes

The growing popularity of arbitration rather than litigation in sectional title property disputes stems from its being both less expensive and faster. The Sectional Title Act’s Prescribed Management Rule 71 was recently amended ...

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Sectional Title Schemes: The Rules

There are many cases where trustees and/or their members do not know the difference between management and conduct rules. Conduct rules apply to the day to day business of living together in a complex or an estate where every ...