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Starring in Your Own Home Renovation Show?

Have you gazed at your house over the past months while silently wishing that you could be selected to participate in a home renovation television show? You were probably over the moon at the thought of saying goodbye to your ...

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Make Things Happen

Cyclical changes in housing property sectors demand disciplined margins and, ultimately, high discipline risk management. The traditional approach of South African Banks towards lending practices is what marginalised the impact ...

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How Can We Help You?

South Africans were not the hardest hit during the global economic recession, but compared with its UK and US counterparts, local banks did not have the advantage of lower interest rates to facilitate over-indebted customers. But ...

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Pre auction, Auction, Sheriff, Repossessed & PIP Properties

What amazing times we live in. On Friday we found out that FNB alone has over 90 000 home owners who are distressed sellers...

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Seeing Vacant Land for Sale as an Investment

While buying to build could be more expensive than buying a house, vacant land for sale could be an excellent long term investment. Vacant land, especially somewhere close to the sea, continues to appreciate in value, without you ...

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How to ‘Read’ the Property Market

Prospective buyers often want to know when they should enter the property market. Naturally investors would like to enter the market when properties for sale are relatively inexpensive and sell the property when the market ...

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Real Estate for Sale - A Good Investment in Current Economic Climate

While the current economic climate has grinded many world economies to a virtual standstill, it still offers opportunities to those individuals who are in a strong enough position to invest. And real estate for sale remains one ...

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How to Evaluate Your Finances before Purchasing a Property

You will most probably talk about the property market in casual conversations with friends and family at some point. Chances are that they will tell you “property is an excellent investment and you should buy now before it is too ...

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Interest Rates Cut by a Further 50 Basis Points

The South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) lowered the key monetary policy interest rate – the repo rate – by another 50 basis points to 5,5%. On the back of this latest cut in the repo rate, Absa announced ...