Jul 29, 2024 | Conveyancing and Property Law
When selling your property, it is necessary for the conveyancer to obtain a rates clearance certificate (RCC) from the relevant local authority, or municipality, before transfer can be registered in the Deeds Office. Why is it necessary to obtain a rates clearance...
Jul 11, 2024 | Conveyancing and Property Law
After signing an offer to purchase, a buyer will often take occupation of the property before registration of transfer has been affected into their name. Upon moving in, the buyer may find defects in the property that they were not made aware of by the seller prior to...
Oct 17, 2023 | Conveyancing and Property Law
In these periodically dark times of load shedding, citizens find themselves seeking alternative measures of power generation which has led to a rise in purchases of small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) systems such as solar installations and on-grid inverters. In...
Apr 3, 2023 | Conveyancing and Property Law
When purchasing property, it may come to light that the boundary walls may have some defects. The question arises on who, between a seller and buyer, will be liable to remedy this? Latent and patent defects In order to discuss defects, one needs to discern between...
Jul 8, 2022 | Conveyancing and Property Law
When an agreement of sale is entered into for the sale of immovable property between a seller and purchaser, there are a number of charges which may arise in addition to the purchase price. Like all sales and transactions, some form of taxation is applicable. In the...
