Property professionals; time to shed the vulture culture
23 January 2024 | Insights Team
Property agents suffer a poor reputation, with the blanket perception being that they’re only interested in securing sole mandates, maximising commissions, playing the buyer and the seller against each other and engaging in a cutthroat bun fight to close the deal, likened to vultures, circling above, ready to swoop down on unsuspecting prey – the […]
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When you strike a woman you strike a rock
7 March 2023 | Insights Team
International Women’s Day (IWD) 2023 As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2023 on 8 March, it is important to acknowledge the significant strides made by women professionally, including in real estate. Women property practitioners in South Africa have been instrumental in facilitating the purchase of residential property by other women, enabling them to become homeowners. […]
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Property negotiations, how our agents negotiate the best offer for you in 2023
7 February 2023 | Insights Team
PART 2 [LISTEN TO PODCAST] Listen to PART 2 of this conversation, where we unpack the fundamentals of the negotiation process. In the event you missed PART 1 of this 2-part series: How to negotiate the best offer for your property – listen to it here. Leadhome Properties’ experienced property practitioners, Desiré Ludick, (Johannesburg West) […]
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How to negotiate the best offer for your property in 2023
18 January 2023 | Insights Team
PART 1 [LISTEN TO PODCAST] You’re selling your home, the valuation has been concluded and you have signed a mandate with a reputable agent and agency. Your home has been properly photographed and listed in the correct price bracket, is being actively marketed across all the correct portals, attracting a pool of buyers ready to […]
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National Women’s Day 2022: Celebrating women in property
5 August 2022 | Insights Team
In South Africa, 9 August 2022 marks National Women’s Day. A day we draw attention to many of the important issues facing women in our country and throughout the world, such as domestic violence, discrimination, harassment in the workplace, equal pay, education and more. In South Africa, on National Women’s Day, we pay homage to […]
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Priced to sell – get the right price by pricing right
29 March 2022 | Insights Team
[LISTEN TO PODCAST] Today we’re chatting to Riegardt Momberg, Leadhome Properties’ top estate agent and Team Lead for Johannesburg North. Riegardt joined Leadhome Properties as our first team member at inception in 2016 and recently celebrated the sale of his 300th property. Riegardt has played a massive role in the success of Leadhome Properties, and […]
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Anatomy of a quadruple linked sale
1 March 2022 | Insights Team
[LISTEN TO PODCAST] PART 1 Many of you will recall Charles Smith, a top-performing agent and Pretoria Team Lead at Leadhome Properties – of the R13 million property sale in just under 26 days fame. We featured the sale in a weekly blog article on the Leadhome website. Some of you may have even been […]
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Meet Ronel du Plooy, Agent of Change at SA’s No. 1 fixed-fee agency, Leadhome Properties
7 December 2021 | Insights Team
It is immediately apparent that there is a special quality about Leadhome Properties’ estate agent, Ronel du Plooy. Ronel is one of those rare, authentic, truly empathetic human beings, with that special kind of magnetic quality that people, even those who have not yet fully made her acquaintance, are simply drawn to. Case in point? […]
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Women power and the property industry, National Women’s Day 2021
10 August 2021 | Insights Team
In South Africa, 9 August 2021 is celebrated annually as National Women’s Day. On this day attention is drawn to many of the important issues facing women in our country and throughout the world, such as domestic violence, discrimination, harassment in the workplace, equal pay, education and more. In South Africa, on National Women’s Day, […]
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How I sold a R13M property in under 26 days
20 July 2021 | Insights Team
Leadhome Properties’ Pretoria team lead, Charles Smith unpacks the tools and strategies he used to achieve this record R13 million sale – then he sold the sellers their next home in under 3 days. “As a local real estate expert I always try to stay connected to my community, especially through social media via the […]
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