Ask most people what they want from a partner, lover, friend and the one common answer will be loyalty. Your insurer is no different – believe it or not but this characteristic, or lack thereof, is something that could affect your premiums over the long
Last week my daughter phoned me following a spike in crime in the area, including home invasions involving some of Kate’s close friends. The phone call took me aback, but once I’d collected my thoughts I wrote this email to Kate. Dear Kate, Now that I’ve had
Picture this: Two agents, smack bang in the middle of one of the craziest, busiest days of their year. One of these agents has a sole mandate to sell a home similar to yours one block away. The other is one of the six agents
Properties along the most expensive coastline in the country are already breaching the R170,000 per month mark, with the latest FNB Property Barometer noting in Q2 2017, the Atlantic Seaboard average house price inflation rate was 29.9% year-on-year and the City Bowl 21.1%. “There can be
Gareth had no idea how much his life would change when he bought his new home. As a law-abiding citizen he'd never had to deal with the police before, had never had to hire a lawyer and had never felt threatened. All this changed within weeks
When faced with, what feels like, the mountain of paperwork required to complete a property transaction you might easily feel that the signed sales agreement is just another one of those steps to complete before finally celebrating the end of the transaction. You shouldn’t be so hasty though,
Q Hi, I recently received a notice of a Special General Meeting from the trustees in a sectional title scheme where I own a unit. They plan on changing the conduct rules by adding an Annexure to it. After going through it some points seems unfair that
Are you one of the lucky South Africans that received an annual salary increase in the last year? Chances are that even if this is the case you are now, on average, R200 poorer than you were two years ago. According to a BankservAfrica survey the
Negotiation touches every part of our lives. Relationships in business and in our personal lives are negotiated. And the skills to do it effectively can often mean the difference between getting what you want or losing out. You don’t get what you deserve, you get
Q In my sectional title complex, which is a mixed-use development, i.e. commercial and residential, the trustees budgeted for a deficit in the 2015/16 financial year. The developer, who owns the commercial portion and a large number of residential units, dominates the board of trustees and