There has been mounting confusion about what the Estate Agency Affairs Board (EAAB) meant exactly, when announcing that agents from the previously disadvantaged groups (PDIs) could apply for exemptions in terms of educational requirements.

In prime global capitals across the world, growing numbers of aspirant home buyers are finding themselves excluded from the property market as their salaries fail to keep pace with the rapid growth in house prices.

When the Estate Agency Affairs Board (EAAB) states an estate agent/agency has done all possible to be compliant but due to problems at the regulator wasn’t timeously issued with a fidelity fund certificate (FFC)

Twenty-five years since becoming a democracy, SA’s residential property industry is still largely untransformed. Fact. Identifying and addressing the issue, now that is no simple matter

There are many barriers to entry in the real estate industry – ongoing compliance issues coupled with the costs related thereto favour bigger established businesses and seriously inhibit start-ups.

Times are tough and with an ever-widening range of cheaper digital options continually becoming available to people who want to buy or sell a house, a commission-based estate agent must be ready to sell convincingly the services they can offer.