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Market Heats Up for Owners With Houses For Sale

Property investors with houses for sale will wait about 13 weeks to offload their property in the current market, according to First National Bank’s latest Property Barometer. This is a ...

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Understanding Mortgage Origination

Banks have differing criteria and product ranges for specific market segments. Logically the first-time home buyer has a vastly-altered profile to the multi-millionaire private bank client ...

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A well-anchored economic policy

The budget speech laid out a thoughtful approach to the reality we find ourselves in following the global financial crisis of 2008 and the deep recession of 2009 which also left its mark on South Africa. Having maintained his ...

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Housing Review - Q1 2010

Here follows a summary of the Housing Review of the first Quarter of 2010, as compiled by ABSA: The South African economy emerged from recession in the second half of 2009, with real GDP rising ...

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Area Review: Fresnaye

Fresnaye. None of my friends live in Fresnaye. It’s posh. Nay, it’s you’ve-arrived posh.

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Small But Steady Growth For Rentals

The latest figures released by credit bureau and rental research agency, Tenant Profile Network (TPN), indicate that the rental market in the upper end of the housing market has become ...

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5 things you have to know and ask before you invest offshore?

Dear Potential Offshore Investor Napoleon said, “Information was nine tenths of any battle.” The challenge is do you have the right information, are you choosing the right partners, making the right investments and most ...

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Area Review: Property in Auckland Park

Once upon a time, Jozi’s north-western suburb of Auckland Park was a romantic, country getaway where men on horseback came to rest their weary heads after a long week in a makeshift mining camp ...

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South African property is waking up, but what is happening in London?

As South African’s moved into 2010, with allot of hope about the year and of course our awesome World Cup, there was definitely a sense of optimism which is prevailing. Scott Picken, IPS CEO says, “We have definitely noticed this ...