Failure in mentorship: elephant in the room?

The real estate industry is a tricky business – it is in the best interest of the industry that intern agents receive proper mentorship and supervision yet often this is not the case. What should be done?

Global growth expectations for real estate in 2021

2021 will be another challenging year for the world economy, however the global property market looks set again to be a shining star during these difficult times.

Speakers Corner

Principals have a critical role to play in intern development but mostly this is not happening. How do we fix this because if we don’t nothing will change writes Jim Alexander.

PayProp, your regulatory and compliance partner

ADVERTORIAL: As we await finalisation of the regulations that will give effect to the Property Practitioners Act, agents considering PayProp will be glad to know the country’s leading rental payment processor already ticks all the Act’s boxes. Specifically, PayProp’s trust environment, process flows, audit logs and daily reconciliations all meet the requirements of the new Act and its draft regulations.

Preparation for the new Act – is there such a thing as too much?

An agency recently enquired about a landlord disclosure report provided to them by a certain property bureau. The disclosure report stated that it should be signed by the landlord at the same time as the mandate is signed and prior to signature of the lease by the landlord.