“He who hesitates is lost” (Wise old proverb) In January 2019 new amendments to Regulations for the replacement of lost title deeds (and ...

"If you want to make your house easy to sell, make it easy to buy" (Anon) You are overjoyed at receiving a good offer for your property –...

“If you don't like where you are, move. You are not a tree” (Jim Rohn) The upcoming festive season, with its mass migrations of happy hol...

“Reliable electronic communications go beyond just benefiting the commercial interest of licensees to the detriment of ownership of prope...

"Spoliation is the wrongful deprivation of another's right of possession. The aim of spoliation is to prevent self-help. It seeks to prev...

“…the Act is consumer-protection legislation designed to offer protection against incompetent builders and the construction of homes havi...

“A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on” (Samuel Goldwyn) Verbal agreements in South Africa are generally as binding and...

It is only once the court concludes that there is no defence to the claim for eviction and that it would be just and equitable to grant a...

Why yet another warning about cyber-scams in the property industry? It’s because the hard fact is that the criminals are winning this war...

“The issue of whether a conveyancing attorney receives the money as the agent of the seller, or of the purchaser, or of both, or as trust...

A bad neighbour is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage” (Hesiod, 700 BC) “ Bad neighbours have it seems been troubling...

When you come to sell your house or other property, you have the right to nominate your own attorney to attend to the conveyancing for yo...