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Kwaku Gima has spent almost fifteen years building his family a house, and it's still not finished. The floor hasn't been plastered smooth and the kitchen cabinets are yet to be fitted...

Tito Mboweni is the first South African Reserve Bank governor to have become a true celebrity!

Everywhere he appears in public, groupies hang onto his lips, frantic to know whether there will be another rate-cut or not...

One of the questions that he is most frequently asked, says Tony Clarke, is “should I fix the interest rate on my mortgage bond and, if so, at what rate and for how long...

Massive increases in residential property sales have been reported by Seeff Properties...

Reflecting on the year in which half the country's estate agents disappeared

Characterised by at least a 50 percent fall-off in the volume of sales, an extreme scarcity of bank lending finance and, as a generalisation, a marginal fall-off in pricing, the past year has seen extremely tough trading conditions for the property industry...

Everyone involved in residential property right now, said Bill Rawson, Chairman of Rawson Properties, has become uneasily aware of the frustration and resentment among people in the lower income levels caused by homeownership being beyond their reach - despite repeated promises from the state that delivery here would speed up...

With our currency pegged to the US dollar, which has been declining in recent months, it could very well lead us to believe that we might see a recovery in the real estate market and tourism if it continues that way...

Asrin Property Developers, one of the major residential developers in the Cape, have put together a five year business plan which, taking account of future economic trends, will see them being far more active from 2010 onwards...

Over 50 000 former township and lower income bracket residents are moving annually into what were formerly exclusively white areas and, although this process has been slowed by the recession, it still represents one of the most fundamental changes ever seen in South African society...

The property market is turning but things are still a far cry from being a seller’s market and the warning from the property experts is that both buyers and sellers need to be realistic in their pricing if the deals are going to happen...

It ‘s always good advice never to sign a carte blanche in business dealings – and that also holds true for property consumers signing offers to purchase or sales agreements...

Already, says Lanice Steward, MD of Anne Porter Knight Frank, visitors from overseas (“the swallows”) and from upcountry are filtering into Cape Town - and, she says, as happens every year, some will inevitably start considering buying a home here...

In a recent hard-hitting statement, Bill Rawson, Chairman of Rawson Properties, disagreed radically with other high profile people in the South African property sector on the question of whether to use the increased offshore allowance...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has developed a demonstration low-income house with an improved design that is durable and easy to extend...

A small country town nestled in the majestic Drakensberg escarpment mountains of Mpumalanga offering a tranquil, malaria-free holiday destination...

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SA’s best-known property group Aida has affirmed its confidence in the Nelson Mandela metropole property market by opening a new office in Port Elizabeth...

The scenic town of Clarens in the Eastern Free State is experiencing renewed interest among residential property buyers, reports Pam Golding Properties area principal Anne Maree...

SA will have the most expensive electricity in the world," Mike Schussler told a presentation on Eskom in Johannesburg entitled "Recovery or Eskom". "We keep being told that we have the cheapest electricity in the world”

The general feeling that we’ve received from our readers on last week’s newsletter is that South Africans and in particular, homeowners, will have to stand together and not let Eskom get away with the new tariff proposal as tenants would not be able to meet the monthly rent.

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Looking back at 2009: Bargains, bullets, movers-and-shakers

CAPE TOWN: I've attended a fair amount of auctions this year and it's been an interesting one to say the least...

Despite being hard-working and very experienced, most SA estate agents could not themselves afford to buy the homes that they market...

Property sellers admit to fibs; SA's rip-off property sales commssions in spotlight...

A cottage by the sea is such a common retirement dream that it has become almost a cliché, but it does clearly illustrate the point that many people’s hopes for a happy retirement are all tied up with real estate...

When a buyer takes over a property, it is absolutely essential that he or she checks it thoroughly, testing all electrics, locks, windows, doors, down pipes, drains and the rest, says Lanice Steward, MD of Anne Porter Knight Frank...

Because buyers know they have the upper hand in the residential property market at the moment, many are making offers that seem ridiculously low to sellers and their agents...