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Downscaling, whether for financial reasons or due to life stage, is still why most people sell their homes and they will sell if ‘priced right’ as it is still very much a buyer’s market – but [...]

Airbnb’s and other short-term let’s in community schemes are regulated by the rules of such a scheme, and this is how it should remain says Coenie Groenewald, COO of the National Association of [...]

Heritage contributes profoundly and intrinsically to a brand’s core value but, much like respect, it is an elusive and hard-won asset that cannot be bought or easily acquired overnight; it can [...]

A sectional title body corporate is responsible for management and administration of its scheme. It must ensure that the provisions of the Sectional Titles Schemes Management Act (the Act) are [...]

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 [...]

If you have ever watched the popular Discovery Channel television show “Mythbusters”, you will know that some myths are so entrenched in popular belief that we are left stunned when they are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.