Showing off on show day
Show days are still a thing – using these staging tips will help you prepare a home for show day for success.
Show days are still a thing – using these staging tips will help you prepare a home for show day for success.
Embracing proptech is essential to our industry’s global competitiveness, yet half of surveyed organisations don’t have a technology strategy. Here are four proptech trends to get you ahead of the game.
Be inspired! Estate agents in their 20s about making a name in the market and using their social media know-how to sell.
One of the main tools in the sales arsenal of an estate agent is producing market-related property valuations for their clients.
First-time buyers made up at least 60% of BetterBond’s home loan applications over the past year, with buyers ranging in age from 26 (the oldest members of Gen-Z) to 42 (the oldest of the Millennials), generating much of the sales activity in the local residential market.
With crime being rife in South Africa property practitioners should be aware of the dangers surrounding open house marketing.
While record-low interest rate levels over the last two years helped give millions of new buyers a foothold in the South African residential property market, an upward trend in the rate, high annual inflation, record-high unemployment, an economy struggling to get back to pre-pandemic levels and the added strain of load shedding have seen the market slow significantly in the last few months.
Born between 1981-1996, the Millennial generation are now between the ages of 26-41, making them a prime segment of home buyers in South Africa.
The renewed interest in the country’s major CBDs from a younger demographic will have a positive knock-on effect on the economy and property market at large.
Property practitioners can play a major role in the way a house up for sale is presented to prospective buyers by guiding present owners through a few steps to make the house look more attractive.