Hosting a successful body corporate general meeting is always a challenge. When a sufficient number of owners do not attend the meeting, a quorum will not be met and it can result in an unnecessary waste of time for those owners who did make the effort to attend…
Good financial and cashflow management is crucial for well-run and efficiently operated community housing schemes, including sectional title schemes and home owners’ associations (HOAs)…
The judgment in Kingshaven Homeowners’ Association v Botha and Others (6220/2019) [2020] ZAWCHC 92 in which the judge agreed with the Community Schemes Ombud Service adjudicator’s view…
If you are emigrating but you plan to keep property in South Africa, there is a way to make your property pay without being a hands-on landlord…
One of the most important decisions that members of a sectional title scheme make every year is the appointment of trustees. If this decision is taken lightly, it can potentially have a number of negative effects, both in the short- and long-term…
Parliament’s portfolio committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has called for written comment on the Sectional Titles Amendment Bill.
The bill introduces a number of additional regulations which largely relate to the management and development of schemes including extensions and common property – with tenants and trustees less likely to be impacted…
When a new sectional title scheme is created, the developer must, amongst other things, lodge the proposed Sectional Title Plan, after approval thereof by the Surveyor general (“SG Diagram”) with the Registrar of Deeds…
Lease agreements specify how utilities should be dealt with between tenants and landlords to avoid any sticky situations…
The Sectional Titles Schemes Management Act requires a body corporate to collect contributions (levies) from all members of the body corporate (in other words, all owners of sections in the scheme), in order to cover the common expenses and operating costs that the scheme will encounter during a given financial year…
Insurers of sectional title schemes have a love-hate relationship when it comes to geysers as a result of the frequency of claims and the costs involved…
While it is common for the trustees and directors of sectional title housing schemes to want to change the conduct rules of their schemes in pursuit of a harmonious and co-operative atmosphere between residents, they must be careful not to overstep the mark and end up with rules that are actually illegal…