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The Covid-19 crisis united South Africa’s real estate sector as never before in our history and the hard work has perhaps paid off – on Monday 1 June all property professionals may once again go [...]

The property sector welcomes the latest rate cut because it spells relief for financially stressed home-owners and record-low interest rates sweetens the deal for first-time home buyers as well [...]

With the downgrade from Alert Level 4 to Alert Level 3 looming close, the issuing of summonses and eviction applications draws ever nearer. What can landlords expect once the lockdown we are [...]

The revised Disaster Management Act directions on the movement of people from one home to another mean that tenants and home-buyers can now go ahead and move into their new Sectional Title (ST) [...]

The National Property Professionals Council (NPPC), led by dynamic chairperson Vuyiswa Mutshekwane, says while encouraged to see their efforts to obtain relief for the property sector is slowly [...]

The extended lockdown has hit the rental market particularly hard hit with many tenants that faced a lowered income or even no income. Is it all doom and gloom with a long slow road to recovery [...]

The real estate sector has also caught onto the phrase that ‘everything is going to change’ and ‘the world will never be the same again’. However, every estate agent is asking: “How will it [...]

Due to lockdown, agents are not necessarily able to follow their normal processes and protocols, which more often than not include shared hard copy files and printed paperwork.

The Estate Agency Affairs Board (EAAB) CEO Mamodupi Mohlala denies allegations that she as CEO of the regulator has been ‘absent’ during the corona virus.

The combination of the delayed reopening of the Deeds Office together with the announcement of a once off allowance for people to move to new homes, subject to certain restrictions, gave some [...]