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| >> Real Estate News - Housing prices continue to soar worldwide |
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As the world becomes more urbanised, the need for appropriate accommodation has become both a priority and a scarcity as housing prices continue to soar. According to a recent study, South Africa is leading the field in the property rates ’During 2005 house prices increased in 20 countries out of the 23 countries monitored by the Worldwide Commercial Real Estate Information Portal.
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| >> The Property Game - Politics and property |
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Supplied by Dave Welmans www.thepropertygame.co.za Next week sees the Honourable Minister of Finance, Mr. Trevor Manuel, deliver his 10th budget speech. If you thought that property and politics had nothing to do with each other, think again. There are myriad connections between national and local legislation that affects property owners. It is the business of government to promulgate laws that enables them to collect monies and use these for the betterment of society. Property ownership is one of the key ways in which the government set about collecting these taxes...
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Supplied by Ingrid Smit After a two year flat-out gallop, the pace of South Africa's property market has slowed to an enduring canter, the reins now firmly in the hands of buyers.
Speaking in Cape Town recently, National Referral Network (NRN) chairman Terry Brookes said that the new year had dawned on a changed market. While activity had been surprisingly good during January, there had been a definite shift away from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Seeing this as a positive move, Brookes said this changed state of affairs would ensure the market's long-term sustainability by effectively putting the brakes on runaway pricing, since the issue of affordability was biting into most home buyers...
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The Gautrain project team, which includes such disciplines as town planners, quantity surveyors and civil engineers, says all the rail stations on the Gautrain’s route are places where the “impact of the Gautrain will be felt”...
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Article From: A tightening up of foreign investors’ property ownership policies would hinder the economy and put a dampener on economic growth. So says Barak Geffen, Executive Director of Sotheby’s International Realty SA, who believes that President Thabo Mbeki’s plans to tighten rules for foreigners buying land in SA is not good news. "Foreign investors should be encouraged to invest in South Africa and we should be making it easier, not more difficult for foreigners to bring much needed skills and capital to SA to actively help grow the economy. One needs only look to the Australian example to see how foreign investors can help to uplift the standard of living for all South Africans," he said...
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| >> Focus on Dundee, Kwazuly Natal, South Afica |
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Dundee on the Northern slopes of the Biggarsberg is where KwaZulu Natal’s great coal mining industry originated. The Dundee Coal Company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1899, and Dundee soon emerged as a boomtown graced with stately homes and the first theatre north of Port Natal-Durban. Pioneer traders from the Indian sub-continent settled here during the following decade, when Dundee became the meeting place of seven roads into the hinterland and coast...
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You'll Need All the Help You Can Get With kids out of school, this could be the perfect time to recruit them to help organize their rooms. If you get them to help plan the job and help with the work, they just might be more interested in keeping their things organized. Once you evaluate the task at hand, you may feel that a total organizational makeover is necessary. You'll have to start somewhere, so we suggest clothing, toys, books, and papers. With these put under control, you'll be surprised how much progress you've made!
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| >> News from the government - the government will regulate the conditions under which foreigners buy local land |
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Land regulation will hurt investment Regulating foreign ownership of real estate is “silly romanticism” that could alienate the much-needed investment into South Africa and impair economic growth, warned Leon Louw, of the Free Market Foundation. Louw was reacting to Thabo Mbeki’s announcement in his State of the Nation speech last Friday that in 2006 the government will regulate the conditions under which foreigners buy local land...
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Dundee
on the Northern slopes of the Biggarsberg is where KwaZulu Natal’s
great coal mining industry originated. Today only one coal mine
is still in operation while cattle and sheep ranching and maize
growing are the main agricultural pursuits of the district - Focus
on Dundee, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
THE
Gautrain Rapid Rail Link is expected to be a catalyst for billions of
rands worth of property development ranging from new residential space
to offices and retail property around Gauteng. 
