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Does the CPA protect home buyers?
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Does the CPA protect home buyers?

Home buyers can cut through all the current confusion over the consumer protection act and property sales by insisting on an independent home inspection before they sign an offer.

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Building on common property in sectional title

If a group of owners wish to build on a common property, what are the steps required to make this happen? For example, what would happen if the owners wanted to build a swimming pool? Individual owners can only build on the ...

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Bank on a home inspection

The home inspection industry is presently unregulated in South Africa and as with anything that isn’t regulated, is open to abuse. While there are many reputable companies out there who employ the right people, there are ...

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Balcony leakages

Balconies are a huge asset in any sectional title scheme, but they have an inconvenient tendency to leak rainwater onto balconies or units below, and this can all too often result in damages to several units. What is more, the ...

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Sectional title maintenance

If there is one issue which can be almost guaranteed to raise temperatures among sectional title property owners, it is the question of who is responsible for the maintenance of the three different types of property in sectional ...

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Unruly tenants will attract fines

One of the things that owners of sectional title units can find particularly difficult to accept, especially if they live far away from the scheme in which they have invested, is that they are, in terms of Prescribed Management ...

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Bodies corporate - defaulting levy payers

Owners of sectional title units who run up substantial levy arrears and then try to sell their units without meeting these debts – or whose units are being sold in execution – will discover that ...

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Resolving sectional title disputes

The growing popularity of arbitration rather than litigation in sectional title property disputes stems from its being both less expensive and faster. The Sectional Title Act’s Prescribed Management Rule 71 was recently amended ...

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Check before your appoint your Agent

The liquidation of Constantia Sectional Title Management (CSTM), one of the larger Gauteng companies operating in this field, should send a warning signal to every sectional title trustee and sectional title owners in South ...

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