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NAMIBIAN real estate withstood the global economic crisis despite the price instability experienced in the South African market, a First National Bank properties analyst has said...

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“The market in South Africa was hit quite hard by the global recession,” said Sanett Uys, the corporate affairs director for Colliers International South Africa...

Although all the South African banks have raised the number of residential property mortgage bonds that they are prepared to issue and have improved the loan to value ratios (in some cases to 100 or even 105%) they remain cautious about SA’s growth prospects...

The consensus of opinion among estate agents reporting at National level is that the turnaround in the property cycle is now a reality and that the 2010 World Cup is beginning to have a significant effect in the property sector...

Bill Rawson, Chairman of Rawson Properties, has added his voice to those of several high profile commentators who have urged South African investors to be cautious about taking advantage of the increased offshore investment allowance...

Alliance Group, a leading asset sales and services company, has added four multiple auction dates to its sale diary in response to the rise in demand from private buyers and investors in the auction room...

It is that time of the year again: if you have survived the recession, still have one or two rands in the bank and were not one of the fortunate few who have just already had a holiday, the chances are you are now planning a Christmas break away from home...

Although Sotheby’s International Realty is rightly renowned for marketing millionaires’ mansions around the world, it actually sells far more family homes, flats and townhouses in local suburbs...

It is extremely unwise to hide any problems in your home from a prospective buyer, warns Lanice Steward, MD of Anne Porter Knight Frank...

There is, says Bill Rawson, Chairman of Rawson Properties, growing evidence that the difficult conditions over the last 24 months in the residential property sector have led to middle class South Africans holding on to their homes longer and being unable to upgrade as they did formerly...

How to put a stop to sexy moans, groans

JOHANNESBURG: A British woman this week lost an appeal against a ban on her noisy sex sessions, after the court agreed that marathon romps were keeping the neighbours awake...

Regular warnings by spokespeople for the real estate industry about the danger of trying to move into a property on which the rates or the water/services bills have not been paid have gone unnoticed by many buyers, says Anton du Plessis, CEO of Vineyard Estates...

Although more than half a million jobs are said to have been lost in SA since the onset of the late 2007/early 2008 credit crunch, relatively few middle class unemployed people these days consider becoming estate agents...

Although more than half a million jobs are said to have been lost in SA since the onset of the late 2007/early 2008 credit crunch, relatively few middle class unemployed people these days consider becoming estate agents...

The Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA), together with international engineering and consulting group Arup, have published “Existing Buildings Survival Strategies”

Ivan Neethling, the current chairman of the Institute of Estate Agents, Western Cape, has launched an additional new service to its members and to the public by creating a recruitment and placement division, “Property Placements”...

Set along the banks of the tidal Kowie River, this picturesque seaside holiday resort has more sunshine days than any other town along the coast, with many attractions and activities on offer...

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The third Quarter Tshwane Metro FNB Residential Property Barometer pointed to a sizeable jump in activity levels in the region during the third quarter, after a very mild recovery since the third quarter of last year. This suggests that the region is beginning to feel the positive impact of the series of interest rate cuts that took place in the first half of 2009...

Property sales in several of Pretoria’s eastern suburbs have escalated dramatically in the past three months...

Property sales in upmarket residential areas are up, reflecting renewed confidence in this sector of the market...

When a large portion of the population are not satisfied with political decisions they either toy-toy or boycott that institution. Why can’t a national boycott be arranged of payment for electricity be arranged or national protests on an ongoing basis. However I feel that this will be not the answer. The current crisis presents an excellent opportunity for public Government participation and allow private enterprise to build power stations on behalf of ESKOM and sell the electricity to the national supplier, this is the campaign that the consumers should campaign for and not punishing the public at large formal administration and corruption.

I hope that you would support such a proposal and publish this in your news letter.

Regards
Save South Africa Campaign
David. J. Griessel.
Founder
dgriessel@weblink.co.za

From the editor:

Well David, the Minister for Public Enterprises Barbara Hogan dismissed all concerns yesterday saying Eskom was "on track", and that they would attend to its next tariff rise application. Can we believe this? Or should the question be, are we happy with this? If you support David’s proposal send us your viewpoint or email him directly.

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Question:
In a sectional title complex or block of flats, is the body corporate responsible for cleaning the outside windows...

Sectional title schemes, particularly densely populated ones often with little or no common property gardens, may not be the ideal places for pets. Yet many people living in sectional title schemes, or considering moving into one, consider their pets to be their best friends and could not even dream of getting rid of them...

Sectional title apartments have been - and will continue to be - the fastest growing sector in the South African property market - and there are significant cost benefits, convenience and security factors that make these units a worthwhile investment and/or a good place for people to live...

While many owners of sectional title units take minimal interest in the actions and decisions of their body corporate - at least until things are clearly going very wrong - there will always be some who will resent not being informed if not “kept in the loop”...

The Western Cape branch of the Inscape Design College has become another of the high profile buyers in Redefine Properties’ fully refurbished Buchanan Square in Woodstock...