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Full price should never be paid before property transfer 27 Aug 2013 | 12:34 pm
Although agents are always to act in the best interest of the seller, as it states in the Estate Agency Affairs Board Code of Conduct, it is also their duty to be mindful of the rights of the purchase...
New credit act trips up lower end property buyers 27 Aug 2013 | 12:29 pm
The National Credit Act has resulted in wide scale disappointment and frustration for many rejected bond applicants. 'At the lower end of the market, says John Weston of the Rawson Property Group, ve...
Bogota and Cape Town can learn from each other's initiatives 27 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
Cities, like people, can learn from each other. Fostering this exchange at an official level is important, but considerable resources lie untapped at the community level where resident-led initiatives...
Building industry probe still pending 27 Aug 2013 | 12:11 pm
Nearly two months after the Competition Commission exposed corruption on a grand scale in the construction industry, the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) still has not started to investi...
Shack dwellers create public space in Cape Town 27 Aug 2013 | 11:57 am
A group of 256 families, working with planners and architects, have reconfigured their area in the Mshini Wam informal settlement in Milnerton. The spaces between the units make it easier for emergen...
Durban property owners struggle against noisy neighbours 26 Aug 2013 | 12:07 pm
Being a good neighbour takes patience and goodwill, which means putting up with the guy next door's penchant for cheesy 1970s music when he occasionally has mates around, or putting up with cars parke...
Cape Town planning proposal outrage property owners 26 Aug 2013 | 11:31 am
The City of Cape Town is considering a change to the approvals process of developments that could result in losses to the value of existing homes, says Lew Geffen, chairman of Lew Geffen Sotheby's Int...
Ambitious plans to transform Cape Town's Voortrekker Road 26 Aug 2013 | 11:13 am
A businessman and a city planner have an ambitious idea to transform the 15km stretch of Voortrekker Road between Salt River Circle and Stikland Bridge - and they want the public's advice on how to do...
Liquidator denies claim Blaauwberg hotel sold for a song 26 Aug 2013 | 11:02 am
The liquidator appointed to take control of the affairs of Midnight Storm Investments 386 (MSI) - which owns an unfinished Blaauwberg hotel intended to be a five-star luxury venue - has vehemently den...
Cornubia property development delays 'a plan to buy votes' 26 Aug 2013 | 10:53 am
As more than 11 000 eThekwini families living in informal settlements wait to receive their promised 'manna' from the city, opposition parties, the shack dwellers' movement and a political analyst hav...
