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 | Gaborone increases flexible workplace provider's footprint to 17 countries in Africa and 101 globally. Read more >>
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 | Nick Hedley The Tembisa Mega Mart development in Gauteng has a new buyer in the form of JSE-listed Delta Property Fund‚ after a previous deal to buy the township mall failed. Read more >>
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 | The Hilton Durban has commenced the biggest refurbishment programme in its 17-year history. Read more >>
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 | On Thursday, 27 March, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank announced its decision to keep the repo rate at 5.5%. Read more >>
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 | The South African business community and the property marketing and development sector in particular breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday when the South African Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee announced that it will be holding the interest rate at its current level. Read more >>
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 | With the housing market in a much healthier position than what it has been for years, there is every reason to believe that it is poised for a rebound. Read more >>
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 | Chantelle Gladwin and Adam Civin This article examines when an objection to a municipal property valuation can be submitted, and what can be done outside the prescribed time periods for submitting objections to reduce the impact on the owner of the property where the municipal property value is unrealistically high and the owner is being billed high rates charges as a result. Read more >>
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 | Estate agents selling a home will inevitably find themselves intruding on the seller's privacy and this can cause annoyance. Read more >>
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 | Mike van Alphen The removal of adverse consumer credit information and information on paid up court judgments, published in new regulations of the National Credit Act 2005 on 25 February 2014 has caused some alarm in the property sector. Read more >>
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 | When the Consumer Protection Act was first promulgated some three years ago, many people in the real estate sector were worried that it would lead to regular cancellations of sale contracts and/or post sale disputes in which the agent and the seller would be held responsible for any number of problems, including defects of which they had simply not been aware. However, thus far this has not yet happened. Read more >>
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 | According to Bill Rawson, property pundits like himself, who advocate that property should form a large part of their investment portfolio, say 25% to 30%, are regularly taken to task by others who prefer the stock market as an investment channel and are inclined to point out that, although property may be a reasonably "safe" investment, its returns are very seldom spectacular. Read more >>
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 | South African consumers are being warned that 2014 may be a tough year: interest rate increase, petrol price hike up to R16/l and, as a result, there are concerns that the price of food and public transport will also increase, putting more pressure on consumers who are already struggling to make ends meet. Consumers can no longer afford the luxury of more credit and rather than wondering whether they should buy or not, believe they have no choice but to rent. Read more >>
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 | Owning a rental property is seen by many as an investment, but enter into discussion with a landlord and soon you will discover that it can also be a very frustrating experience. Read more >>
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 | In high demand areas, rising rents almost always lead to higher sales prices. Read more >>
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 | Estate agents working in Langebaan, the attractive West Coast village just 100km from Cape Town, have only one message to give to those interested in the property prospects in the area. Read more >>
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 | Rightly so, there is a big fear among some prospective home buyers that somewhere, perhaps below the floor level and possibly hidden underground, the foundations of a home or its concrete flooring may be cracked to a dangerous degree. Read more >>
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 | Negatively impacted by the recession, the coastal residential property market, in particular the leisure market, has battled to regain momentum in the prevailing challenging economic trading conditions. This summer, however, and in particular during the past holiday season, interest and activity in the coastal residential market has picked up among holiday and retirement buyers, Pam Golding Properties reports. Read more >>
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 | Andrew Golding The anticipated announcement by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to keep the repo rate steady this month is good news for aspirant homebuyers and those with existing home loans. Read more >>
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 | Lightstone, a provider of comprehensive data, analytics and systems on property and business assets looks at whether three bedroom apartments are worth it. Read more >>
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 | Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business While Africa's housing backlog can rightly be called a crisis, it is not an unsolvable one - according to Robert McGaffin, convener of an executive education short course at the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) on housing finance in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Private Property It doesn't come as much of a surprise to hear that Oscar Pistorius has put his home in Silver Woods Country Estate on the market. Regardless of what really happened on the fateful night when he killed Reeva Steenkamp, it was always unlikely that he would return to live in the property. Read more >>
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