Property portals – you get what you pay for

Listing on the major property portals can be expensive for estate agents. There are so many online options today to list property, many of them free – do you need to list on a major property portal to succeed?

How will the new PPA affect your business?

What do the draft regulations under the Property Practitioners Act say about trust accounts, FFC renewals, attorneys that sell property etc? The time to speak up about the possible shortcomings are short.

Speakers Corner

Would there be any sense in pursuing a Constitutional Court application on the constitutional validity of the BEE requirements as set out in the regulations of the new Property Practitioners Act?

Electronic signature case could have been avoided

​​If only the estate agent had made the effort to personally obtain signatures from the prospective buyers, then a litigation involving the High Court could have been avoided.

Young black women drive property investment market

Young, black and female – the profile of South Africa’s typical property investor has changed dramatically in the last decade.