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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.

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 [...]

The owners and occupiers in residential sectional title schemes live close to one another and share the use of the common property, so their behaviour is subject to various types of regulation.