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Millennia Park Receives First Green Star SA Certification

The Millennia Park office building in Stellenbosch has been awarded a 5 Star Green Star SA Office v1 ‘Design’ certification by the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) making it the first refurbished building in South ...

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Balcony leakages

Balconies are a huge asset in any sectional title scheme, but they have an inconvenient tendency to leak rainwater onto balconies or units below, and this can all too often result in damages to several units. What is more, the ...

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Bank on a home inspection

The home inspection industry is presently unregulated in South Africa and as with anything that isn’t regulated, is open to abuse. While there are many reputable companies out there who employ the right people, there are ...

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Sectional title maintenance

If there is one issue which can be almost guaranteed to raise temperatures among sectional title property owners, it is the question of who is responsible for the maintenance of the three different types of property in sectional ...

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Unruly tenants will attract fines

One of the things that owners of sectional title units can find particularly difficult to accept, especially if they live far away from the scheme in which they have invested, is that they are, in terms of Prescribed Management ...

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Property Market Not Out of the Woods Yet

Despite efforts to the contrary, the Eurozone crisis is still just that: a crisis. Typically, people associate a crisis with a temporary or fleeting state of affairs which swings definitively in one direction or another. Not so ...

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London 2012 – Going For Green

An event the size of a world cup soccer tournament or Olypmic Games comes under a great deal of scrutiny from a number of sources. Are such events worth the tax spend? Do they create enough work? Will there be a sustained ...

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Small Village Beauty at Haga Haga

The quiet Wild Coast seaside village of Haga Haga is located within close proximity of the Eastern Cape border, and approximately 75 km from East London. As a member of the Great Kei Municipality, it sits along one of the ...

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Building Insurance - Make the Call

Of the three types of insurance relating to buying a property, that includes the value of an outstanding bond, the house content and the cost of the building, best not to overlook the latter since it may determine owning an ...