Hard work, passion, learning and sound values are the secret to success, says Willard Nyamagodo, an intern who has been with the Just Property Midrand franchise for just one year and has already achieved more than R15-million in sales.

Property experts are forecasting that the lower end of the property market will continue to see brisk activity this year.

A property owner has just signed a sales contract with an interested buyer. A few weeks later, the buyer is missing and there is an unsuspecting tenant illegally living in the property or about to move in.

The latest statistics released by data company Lightstone reveal that single women are now buying significantly more homes in SA than married couples – and way more than single males.

Hosting a show house open to the public has for decades been a most effective marketing technique for estate agents, but of late security concerns for both the safety of the estate agent and the seller’s property have led numerous agents to ask whether the marketing benefits are worth the risk?

Low-fee estate agency Leadhome claims their use of property technology empowers both agents and consumers whereas traditional agents in most cases don’t use technology effectively and have mostly merely exchanged a computer for their pen and paper.