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The Covid pandemic forced a rethink about traditional real estate practices like show houses, offices and neighbourhood drives with buyers. Has an invisible virus changed for good the way we [...]

The real estate industry must wait another week before the office of their regulating body, Estate Agency Affairs Board (EAAB), may (or may not) reopen on 1 July.

The Cape Town deeds office has been in the news quite a bit lately due to closures and slow turn-around times. The said deeds office can easily be said to have been a beacon amongst all the deeds [...]

South Africa is facing long and tough road to economic recovery. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Supplementary Budget maps out how this will be achieved, and it holds a number of positives for [...]

Initial predictions regarding the future of the residential property market as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown have painted a sombre picture: significant drops in house prices, more supply than [...]

The CEO of the Estate Agency Affairs Board (EAAB) stated in their latest annual report “Our vision is to be a sound and trusted world-class regulator that is responsive to and surpasses its [...]

The Cape Town Deeds Office is in deep trouble. Since reopening on 12 May, it closed and reopened twice and operated with such a small staff contingent that the number of backlogged deeds piled up [...]

In the wake of, and - I hate to use the C-word (AND in shouty capitals) – the COVID pandemic, the property market at large, much like the rest of the economy, has taken some serious strain.

Never was the adage, the devil is in the detail, more applicable than in real estate contracts during lockdown when fulfilling key contractual conditions has been extremely difficult and even [...]

Estate agents are entitled to commission if they are forced to trade without a valid Fidelity Fund Certificate (FFC) due to negligence or reluctance to comply ....