The Covid-19 pandemic has meant that most businesses in South Africa, including estate agents, have needed to adopt new approaches to how they operate, which means the vast majority of employees [...]
The COVID-19 lockdown has highlighted the challenges of getting everyone together for an old-fashioned, original “paper and ink” signing session. Electronic signatures can ease property transfer [...]
In an estate there are always those who are reluctant and slow to pay their monthly levies – and a few who won’t pay at all until the homeowners’ association (HOA) has already started to take [...]
For Vuyiswa Mutshekwane’s her work as CEO of SAIBPP gives her the opportunity to contribute in some small way towards building a more inclusive, just and equitable South Africa – and this gets [...]
The three-day and even longer closures of government offices due to Covid-19 scares are costing the property sector, and the country’s economy, billions of rands in lost revenue.
Loss of jobs or reduction in salaries has led to more tenants defaulting on their rent in the months since March. This left many landlords also without an income, however, industry experts [...]
Whether it is being attacked by an aggressive goose, being alone with eery lights in an empty show house or protecting their commission from greedy ancestors – this is all possible in a day’s [...]
Seven days. That is the amount of days the Sandton office of the Estate Agency Affairs Board were open for business in the three months since lockdown restrictions were relaxed. Now their doors [...]
The South African government has been balancing the lives of its citizens and an economy in ICU on the tip of a very thin needle in a series of near death-defying decisions as it attempts to [...]
