Dec 5, 2019 | Commercial Property Law, Conveyancing and Property Law
Compliance certificates are mandatory for any property sale and the rules applied are the same irrespective of the residential or commercial use of the property. However, when leasing commercial property to be used as shops, office space or a factory, fit-outs are...
Nov 21, 2019 | Conveyancing and Property Law
A free advice centre is helping to facilitate formal residential property transactions in Cape Town’s largest township, Khayelitsha. The Transaction Support Centre (TSC) has engaged with over 300 residents to-date and provides buyers and sellers with critical services...
Nov 5, 2019 | Conveyancing and Property Law
Auction sales are on the rise in South Africa and have grown by a huge margin of 40% during the course of 2019. However, despite the trend, it would be wise to realise that buying a property on auction does not necessarily mean that you will always be getting a good...
Oct 17, 2019 | Conveyancing and Property Law
What happens when a buyer takes occupation of a property prior to transfer and then discovers defects that he didn’t know about? He then claims that the seller did not disclose these defects prior to the sale and demands a reduction in the purchase price. The seller...
Oct 3, 2019 | Conveyancing and Property Law, Regulatory
A well-known term that every buyer and seller of immovable property may have encountered is that of the voetstoots clause. The term originates from Dutch and translates directly to ‘with the shove of a foot’. What the term in effect means is that the product, in this...
Sep 19, 2019 | Conveyancing and Property Law
Often when we attend to property transfers we find that home owners are caught unawares of the compliance certificates that are required when selling a house and are subsequently shocked by the associated costs which they did not budget for. A question frequently...
