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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Understanding interest rates; more than a thumb-suck
1 November 2023 | Insights Team
The South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets bi-monthly to assess the nation’s economic conditions and adjust interest rates accordingly. While these decisions are scrutinised by economists and financial advisors for their impact on borrowing costs, including home loans, there are those who trade in property who often offer opinions about when and […]
Read moreWomen 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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Five things I learned from having a newborn baby and moving across the country
24 May 2021 | Marcel du Toit
It’s been an interesting couple of months in the du Toit household. At the end of last year our family decided to make the move from Johannesburg – a city that we spent the last 12 years living and building a life in – to Cape Town – a city that only I grew up […]
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Selling your home? You’re responsible for the certificates of compliance.
18 May 2021 | Insights Team
As a homeowner, you should always have up-to-date certificates of compliance (COCs) for your electrical, gas and electric fence installations. Your bonding bank would have obtained these from the seller when you bought your property, and your insurer will most likely ask for them if you ever claim for things like loss or damage due […]
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