Global Insight, the world's leading company for economic and financial analysis and forecasting, today released the 2007 second-quarter update of House Prices in America, the U.S. housing-valuation analysis, which shows the incidence of overvaluation in the nation's housing market continues to decline, the result of falling home prices. Nationally, home prices are up year-over-year just 2.6%, the weakest gain since 1995...

Is South Africa immune to international property crisis? What the experts say...

A few months ago, few in South Africa had heard of the United States' sub-prime market. Now it's entered the national lexicon as an increasing number of news reports point to trouble for US property owners.

In the United Kingdom, meanwhile, concern is growing that residential property market there is so hot, it's set for meltdown...

Nelson Mandela Bay. A damning report by the National Council of Provinces says Nelson Mandela Bay‘s municipal housing department has collapsed as a result of internal administrative problems and lack of capacity to deliver efficient and effective services to the people...

The costs of municipal services such as electricity and water are increasing rapidly in SA but fortunately, new technology and common sense can significantly lower property owners’ bills for these services.

In the most recent Property Signposts newsletter, the Chas Everitt International property group lists the following 10 ways to cut water and electricity bills...

If the Reserve Bank is trying to encourage South Africans to save rather than spend, it needs to create a stable environment that encourages the purchase of property, says Niël Cronje, CEO of Engel & Völkers South Africa.

“Six successive interest rate increases, spiking fuel prices and impending increases in municipal rates are creating an unstable environment, that prevents careful and meticulous financial planning,” Cronje says...

Love thy neighbour – the laws governing neighbourly conduct Since time immemorial we have seen countless dramas unfold due to neighbourly disputes and, as many estate agents will testify, small problems between neighbouring properties can cause larger issues when it comes to the selling of one of the properties in question.

With the increasing trend towards high-density living, brought about through the sheer necessity to fit as many houses into urban developments as possible, we are seeing more and more instances of larger stands being subdivided and homes being built closer together...

Johannesburg - Proposals to restrict foreign land ownership in South Africa and to require all landowners, including foreigners, to divulge their race, risk creating the impression of a country hostile to white-skinned foreigners. That was the verdict this week among estate agents and property analysts who reacted with dismay to recommendations contained in a government-commissioned report on foreign land ownership...

The Kleinmond area in the Overberg district comprise Kleinmond, Betty's Bay, Pringle Bay and Rooiels. It has been a summer resort for farmers from the Caledon and Elgin areas since 1861. In 1948, a town council was elected, a highway constructed and the town developed.

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Relief on the way for Empangeni buyers

The housing shortage in the northern KwaZulu-Natal town of Empangeni should soon be a thing of the past, as several large residential developments on farmland surrounding the town are now well past the planning stages.

“The increased need for secure cluster or complex type living has attracted new developers and there are a number of medium to high-density housing developments already under way,” says Lionel Foster, owner of leading local estate agency Homenet Fosprops...

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