IMPORTANT NOTICE from the EAAB….
This serves to advise all estate agents who wish to undertake the upcoming Professional Designation Examination (PDE) scheduled to take place on 19 November 2020 that enrolment for such is now open…
Don’t be left behind! Coming into operation of the Protection of Personal Information Act on 1 July 2020: Zoom Training Sessions commencing 29 July 2020…
STBB 6 MONTH GEARING UP PROGRAMME ON POPI
Training Session 1 Presented by: Melanie Coetzee STBB
STBB 6 MONTH GEARING UP PROGRAMME ON POPI
Training Session 2 Presented by: Melanie Coetzee STBB
STBB 6 MONTH GEARING UP PROGRAMME ON POPI
Training Session 3 Presented by: Melanie Coetzee STBB
A new 1000-unit affordable housing development comprising of three different unit sizes was launched by the Amdec Group last month on 11 hectares of land in Ottery, Cape Town…
A recent event at a Cape Town guesthouse has ignited serious concerns for landlords of short-term accommodation offerings, particularly about their ability to evict a non-paying tenant…
The brisk pace of recovery in property sales over recent weeks in Cape Town’s Central City residential market has surprised market analysts and estate agents alike…
The City of Cape Town will be hosting another online meeting between 11:00am and 13:00pm on Thursday, the 22nd of October 2020 with residents and interested groups about the local spatial development framework or, local neighbourhood plan for District Six…
National house price inflation as at the end of August 2020 remained stable at 2.1%. Despite the general slowdown at provincial level…
Subsequently, the EAAB published a communique citing that CPD fees for 2020 will be waived and that those estate agents who have already made payment towards their CPD fees will have their accounts credited for the 2021 financial year and will not be required to pay the CPD fees in the corresponding year…
The bill, which is set to replace the Expropriation Act of 1975 consistent with the Constitution was gazetted on the 9th of October 2020. The bill forms part of the work that government is undertaking to ensure that a comprehensive land redistribution for agricultural purpose, human settlements and industrial development is implemented…
A design-driven development, Fenwick Lane consists of eight new compact homes in Brooklyn, a suburb on the doorstep of Cape Town’s CBD…
FNB says that it will discontinue the issuing of cheques as of 1 January 2021…
Basic education minister Angie Motshekga has published the updated 2021 calendar for South African public schools…
After three months of record-breaking sales post hard lockdown it is clear that South Africa’s property market is on the rebound after the coronavirus lockdown…
The Covid-19 national lockdown has resulted in more employees having to work from home. Due to cost-saving factors and the uncertainties around the pandemic, employers have now begun looking at the option of having their employees work from home indefinitely…
There exists warranted confusion about the full extent of the impact of POPIA (the Protection of Personal Information Act) on cold calling as a form of direct marketing…
Real estate players: As a responsible party you must also be POPIA compliant. You are also encouraged to include compliancy clauses in your service agreements with third-party vendors and should review all such existing contracts to ensure compliance…
The national lockdown and deep recession have taken a toll on the commercial property market, dragging capital growth deeper into negative territory in the first half of 2020…
As the “tiny house” movement sweeps across the world, the demand for luxurious, small homes is also growing in South Africa…
When the Sectional Titles Schemes Management Act (STSMA) was signed into law on 7 October 2016, it shook up the lives of many body corporate members”…
Community housing schemes have a few months left to ensure their record-keeping systems and those of their managing agents are compliant with the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act which came into effect on the 1st of July 2020 with a transition period to ensure complete compliance by the 30th of June 2021…
In South Africa, 2021 marks the date when the long-suffering Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) will finally be enforced. Organisations that have not spent time focusing on how to become compliant are facing a run to the end…
In the currently active property market, driven by the historically low interest rate, sellers may be tempted to increase their asking prices, but this can be a big mistake…
Government’s draft bill on land expropriation without compensation will not necessarily fast-track land reform in the country – and could lead to further litigation and contestation in the country…
The pandemic could reshape our local working landscape and with this, how people may choose to live. As South Africa moves down to Level 1, more and more families are looking to swap big city living for the coast…