The rental housing market is a competitive playing field, even more so in sought-after areas; when the right property at a reasonable price comes along you better jump or risk losing it to the next prospective tenant. No wonder then that so many tenants get
This is the story of a man who owned a few properties all across the land: two-bedroom cottages, three-bedroom homes and large, old four-bedroom homes with garden flats. This man had been the lord of these homes for many years, which meant he thought he
What a great start to the season! These warm sunny spring days are just fantastic, what a beautiful time of the year! I must say I was expecting a much colder winter but it just never seemed to arrive. It is really encouraging to see nurseries
Q Hi, we recently dealt with an estate agent that has stolen our deposit and we are struggling to get this amount back from him. I am including the offer to purchase and addendum for which he has charged us R5,000, and then a Letter of Demand
Based on the FNB Property Barometer it is believed that 2017 will be the third consecutive year of slowing average annual house price growth, and the second consecutive year of house price decline in consumer inflation-adjusted real terms. “For the period January to July 2017, the
Q Hi, we are living in a sectional title complex, where the caretaker is a trustee as well as the chairperson. This specific chairperson is in arears by R41,000 on his levies, and receives a salary - which is said to increase by 8% in the new budget. As trustees we have
Be prepared to stay in your home for at least four and a half years to recoup your transfer costs and agents commission of, on average, 7.5%, as an average homeowner of a R1m home. With house prices growth currently running at only 2.8% p.a. according
When we talk about electricity, we refer to energy in Kilowatt-hour abbreviated as kWh. kWh implies a Kilo (that is 1,000) Watts of power for one hour. Note the use of power and energy: Think of power as the speed at which you use energy.
Q Hi, is there any way that we can get around the fact that the security levy is calculated and payable by participation quota (PQ)? We feel that in our sectional title complex, which consists of various sized homes, it unfair to say that a big house
Q Hi, we are having our AGM at the end of September this year. When we received our copy of the body corporate financials, we noticed that the financial year for the audited financial statements is January 1 to December 31. When we checked previous financials,