Jackie Smith
Featured, PropTech
AI-powered cybercrime targets SA property market
While the real estate sector is showing promising growth, this is being overshadowed by the…
9 June 2025
Home buyers are taking out personal loans to fund deposits
South African home buyers are putting down bigger deposits than ever. Around 5% of home…
11 March 2024
Advice & Insight, Marketing tips and tricks, PropTech
Unlocking proptech’s potential in South Africa: 4 trends to watch
Embracing proptech is essential to our industry’s global competitiveness, yet half of surveyed organisations don’t…
25 September 2023
Scam alert: protect yourselves and your clients
As technology evolves, so do scams. Understand how these scams work, to protect yourselves, and…
24 March 2023
Advising first-time buyers
Despite the current cycle of interest rate hikes which always puts strain on home buyers,…
25 November 2022
Advice & Insight
Importance of financing: Borrow to build, renovate, extend, or buy off-plan
Property practitioners worth their salt will be knowledgeable about the several ways to finance a…
24 June 2022
FLISP subsidy policy revised – no need for home loan to obtain government subsidy
The National Minister of Human Settlements, Mmamoloko Kubayi, announced that the Finance Linked Individual Subsidy…
24 March 2022
Legal, Resources
Home buyers need to know where to keep deposits under new law
Seeing that the new property laws have come into effect under the Property Practitioners Act…
11 February 2022
