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| >> Real Estate News South Africa rates number one in house price growth |
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Unknown to many people in Nigeria, the Rainbow nation - South Africa - is a haven of real estate investments. It costs much less to acquire equivalent properties in South Africa than in Nigeria and with the impressive growth rate, a prudent investor can go to bed with two eyes closed. A study compiled by Research Worldwide shows that, low interest rates, the emergence of a rapidly growing black middle class and the longest period of uninterrupted economic growth in half a century, have contributed to the current housing boom in South Africa... |
| >> Do not look for loopholes in new transfer duty rules |
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PROPERTY buyers have been warned that postponing existing sales agreements to take advantage of the lower transfer duties from March 1 may be tantamount to fraud. Few new sales are expected to be recorded in the South African residential property market up until March 1 because potential buyers would rather wait to take advantage of the cost savings introduced by the treasury... |
| >> The Property Game - Money or the house? |
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Supplied by Dave Welmans www.thepropertygame.co.za There's a great competition that's just been run by a casino and radio station where the winner gets a multi-million rand house as first prize. The house is also furnished (or a budget is allocated to furnish the house) as well as a very nice car is thrown into the overall winner's prize. That value of the prize is easily calculated as around R2.5 million rand but the sponsors have gone to great lengths to point out how much more the prize is actually worth... |
| >> Soweto swept up in SA property boom |
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After a search and waiting period of six years, Russell Rivombo is about to move into his luxury three-bedroom, double-garage home. His pride and joy is not in the northern wealthy suburbs of Johannesburg but in Soweto, a township south of South Africa's financial capital created for black people under apartheid. "I asked the agents for the place a while ago, I had the approval (loan)... but there was just nothing in the areas I wanted," Rivombo said... |
| >> Commercial developments 'will soar' |
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Growth in commercial property developments is expected to overtake residential property developments this year. Growth in commercial property developments is expected to overtake residential property developments this year, responding to a long-term decline in vacant warehouse and industrial space, says FNB property strategist John Loos... |
| >> Focus on Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa |
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Krugersdorp owes it's origin to two important events in the history of South Africa,namely The Transvaal War of independence (1881) and the discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields (1886). These two occurrences with their far-reaching political and economic consequences,were mainly instrumental in causing the establishment of two townships,originally apart,but subsequently united under the name of Krugersdorp... |
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| >> Have Fun - Top 10 Editors' Tips to Prevent a Car Accident |
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By Caroline Pardilla - www.Edmunds.com As automotive journalists, we at Edmunds.com tend to be a little more practiced on the road than the average driver. Not only is driving cars our job but we're required to go to high-performance driving school every year "for insurance purposes." So take it from us when we say we know a thing or two about how to avoid a car accident. We're not talking about obvious tips your mom told you, like, "Look both ways before you enter an intersection" or "Don't tailgate." Rather, tips we've picked up in the field, interacting with L.A. drivers in particular, driving cross-country, and testing cars on the track. |
| >> News from residents |
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Residents ask Mbeki for schools and houses Better houses, toilets, helping grandparents with school fees and voting for the ANC were the topics Thaba Nchu residents discussed with President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday. Mbeki was visiting the former Bophuthatswana town, now part of the Mangaung local municipality, about 80km east of Bloemfontein as part of the African National Congress' door-to-door campaign for the local government elections on March 1. Philipena Motlhalanyane, 75, lives in an old two-room mud house in Moroka township in Thaba Nchu and looks after six children, of whom three are at school... |
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