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This week: Boomers worth their weight in gold, borrowers in pound seats and country wide preparations for new rates valuations.

This week: FNB estate agent survey by segment, the strongest and the weakest markets of 2011 and pity the poor conveyancer. 

This week:  Non viable mortgages, house price growth remains slow and is slowing down, and Cape Town's high tech property transgression monitoring.

This week:  Rode rejoinder, helping lower-middle-income earners own their own homes and the latest oobarometer has positive year-on-year price growth for December.

This week: February House Price Index, avoid the high-walled Johannesburg look, and ABSA and Nedbank cut ties with AA.

This week:  the launch of an innovative pricing model designed to improve sales and reduce cash flow strain for estate agents, toll mess and Absa House Price Indices.

This week: When to develop a property, bond application rejections are often illogical and making the paperless office work.

This week: 4th Quarter 2010 FNB Estate Agent Survey, new land ownership plan, and sectional title owners responsible for excess payments on insurance claims.

This week: FNB and ABSA property reviews, home owners urged to avoid tax penalty, and a two day workshop in the drafting of wills.

This week:.Quarterly Western Cape Property Review, understand your rights when entering into a property sale, and who pays the upkeep in a usufruct agreement.

This week: Lots of mortgage and house price data to digest from FNB and ABSA along with who pays for the upkeep of a home in a usufruct agreement.

This week: Absa House Price Index, feeding "lies" to the media and how to find the right conveyancer.

This week: FNB's Estate agent survey, Interprovincial migration monitor and Unscrupulous estate agents need to be aware, while a greedy solicitor who wasn't is jailed for fraudulent mortgage transactions.

This week: Abandoning hope in property, Absa mortgage advances, FNB Estate Agent survey and household sector debt service risk.

This week: Buy-to-let survey, EAAB opens a window of disclosure to estate agents, and UK's first chain of 'high street lawyers' is set to revolutionize legal services.

This week: Absa plans a big home loan push, owners are responsible for their tenants' conduct, and conveyancers must do more to tackle mortgage fraud.

This week: SA won't experience a doom and gloom property correction, Absa Housing Review, FNB Property Barometer and mortgage advances growth remains sluggish.

This week: Home values still under pressure, a smear campaign is alleged, and a big increase in black home ownership.
 

This week: Sars on top of new transfer duty system, Absa residential building stats, tenants be warned about improving properties, and conveyancing firms must change to compete.

This week: FNB Property barometer, one cannot exit a property deal once the offer has been accepted, and a Sars land tax ruling comes as a shock for developers.

This week: The right time to buying a home, estate agent 'bribes' get seal of approval, and the FNB Estate Agent Property Barometer.

This week: Nasty surprise as bank adjusts rates, online service speeds up home conveyancing process, and whether to rent or buy a home.

This week: Buy-renovate-sell investments fall 50%, Absa House Price Index and the FNB Property Barometer.

This week: record bond applications and approval rates for Ooba, CPI affords defaulting tenants protection, and interest rates are not the defining factor in residential property.

This week: residential building is mixed, rental market performance is strengthening and the residential property market remains sluggish.

This week:  foreign buying in SA, Rode conference to address property woes, and FNB's Property Barometer.

This week: the brain drain has slowed, integrated housing developments could help housing backlog, and homeowners are holding onto property for longer.

This week: households are obsessed with consumption spending, Western Cape property market and leading indicators.

This week: EAAB’s shocking maladministration, Absa house price indices, an "entitlement mentality" and new plans for District 6.

This week: FNB - 2nd quarter mortgage lending trends, tax implications on property rentals, and understanding how banks go about property valuations.

This week:  July Residential Building Stats, how margins get squeezed and where to for the commercial property industry.

This week: transport corridors present opportunities, coastal provinces are more cyclical than inland provinces, the rand is key, and some more housing indices.

This week: Invitation for comments on the Green paper on land Reform, new buyers buying and 20 million UK searches.

This week: no bonds if alterations are illegal, Standard bank financing almost half new home loans, and FNB estate agent surveys for all, townships and holiday segments.

This week: Buying a house could age you two years, house price indices, and homeowners are not overspending - it's costs rising beyond their control. 

This week:  John Loos talks about property business, 3rd Quarter Investment, long leases, and what is the ROI on law firm marketing?

This week: A new GhostConvey support number, FNB November House Price Index and residential property's shadow inventory.

This week: Absa house price indices, Knight Frank Global House Price Index, and the Rental Housing Amendment Bill.

This week: FNB building and fixed investment statistics, the effect of social media on the property industry, and legal writing workshops.

This week: FNB comment on the interest rate decision, trustees rights, and how to avoid property tax by getting more wives.

This week: Praise for Aus e-conveyancing initiative, sectional title overcrowding, and auctions - the next decade.

This week: Fixed investment update, banks cautious on 100% bonds, and South Africa's best property returns.

This week: FNB February house price index, SA 24th on property rights index, and the growing need to buy a smaller home.

This week: taking advantage of a shortage of properties, Tesco's online service, and free L.E.A.D seminars.

This week: Streamlining the development process, curbs on land rights and the Cape Metro Property market.

This week: Evictions, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and a Local Government Law Workshop.

This week: Council ineptitude leads to deeds crisis, the emerging middle class homebuyer, and adapting to a rapidly changing market.

FNB February building stats, the oobarometer price index sees house prices increase above inflation and the state of market rentals.

This week: FNB April 2010 House Price Index, law graduates face community service, and it is still location, location, location.

This week: More home buyers using the Internet, value saga deepens, and how to ensure your bond application is secure with the banks.

This week: FNB Eastern Cape Property Review, non-paying tenants, cheap conveyancing and does the (UK) Law Society know there is an Internet generation?

This week: FNB May House Price Index, Cape Town Deeds Office World Cup arrangements, and referral fees are deserved.

This week: FNB April building statistics, English conveyancers vulnerable to mortgage fraud, and why it might be wise to rent for a period before buying.

This week:. Transfer nightmare in Johannesburg, property syndication complaints and tax amnesty - is it worth the effort?

This week: Development land attracting investors, secrets of a successful estate agent and offshore property.

This week: FNB second quarter buy-to-let analytics, Road Accident Fund update, and when is it time to upgrade your property?

This week: It's all FNB with FNB's Estate Agent Survey, Mortgage and Household Credit Barometer and their SARB Leading Indicator Property Barometers.

This week: FNB Cape Property Review, "mini-peaks" in residential property and deeds recording and land registration in the Bahamas.

This week: Absa Third Quarter Housing Review, why reasons to not buy property don't hold, and why paying off your bond faster is a good idea.

This week: Deeds Office strike is bad news, small conveyancing firms under threat in UK and the bond registration process.

This week: Absa House Price Index, estate agency board warns of increasing fraud, and the case for property being a long term investment.

This week: the building and renovations market, the buy to let market and be aware of the nature of property syndications.

This week: Consumer Protection Act implementation deferred, a conveyancing association established in the UK, and Western Cape house price growth slows.

This week: FNB Property Barometer, an international Property Law Conference, and all is not lost for self employed bond applicants.

This week: FNB August 2010 Building Stats, how Sars ring fences a loss on rental properties and South African 'legals' put in more hours than peers abroad.

This week: Quarterly housing reviews from Absa and FNB, the need for a quorum to conduct business on behalf of a body corporate, and traditional conveyancing seen as unsustainable.

This week: L.E.A.D Maintenance courses, plans to privatise the Land Registry in England are criticised and the Council of Mortgage Lenders wants stricter rules for conveyancers.

This week: "Back to the city" for many semigrants, Pietermaritzburg Registrar's Circular 8/2010 and transfer of ownership by waiver.

This week: Investing in industrial property, new fees guidelines for property valuers, FNB Property Price Index, and the Irish economic woes will be felt in South Africa.

This week: ABSA November House Price Index, Deeds Office working hours, a property year in review and Land Registry to propose land registration changes.

This week: costly war erupts, Standard Bank Residential Property Gauge, and land rights lost.

This week: Luxury homes, "Cooling off" threshold to be increased, and conveyancing specialists go into receivership.

This week: Property and Budget 2009, GhostPractice rolls out 12 more sites, divorce rates fall with house prices.

This week: Bond originators must stay, collapsing from the bottom, demand nosedives.

This week: The science behind improved billing, FNB House Price Index, and how attorneys manage property deposits.

This week: Property corruption shocker, exodus, and tackling the housing backlog.

This week: Home loan applications in the dustbin, private selling, and a bid to protect homeowners in forced sales.

This week: Can things get any worse, regulating the mortgage origination industry, and Land Registry online?

This week: Simplified electrical certificates, Land Registry hikes fees to make ends week and a big finger.

This week: the law of relativity applied to investments, rent shocker ruling, and the pitfalls of rent-to-own agreements.

This week: Standard Bank Residential Property Report, FNB House Price Index, and buy property soon or weep.

This week: the abstract theory of transfer, collecting rent from recalcitrant tenants, and you're hired!

This week: FNB building cost indices, how SA's property prices rank, and a forfeited farm dispute is resolved.

This week: FNB House Price Index, there is hope for the SA property market, and conveyancers must focus on purchases.

This week: more pain looms, the impact of green building legislation in the future, and a baked bean protest.

This week: health of building industry requires intensive care, tax breaks loom for property investors and life rights for retirees explained.

This week: an up tick in property prices, brighter borrowing and be sure to exercise an option in good time.

This week: a mild recovery, quick fixes for desperate property sellers, and keeping the paper trail when exercising an option to renew a lease

This week: Lower interest rates not working yet, commercial property still buoyant, and beware the implications of making promising statements.

This week: signing on the dotted line, proposed new fee tariffs for property valuers, and the July FNB House Price Index.

This week: house prices on the rise, the Land Bank is turning around and pursuing development, and the advantages of a shorter law firm name.

This week: property prices are perking up, land claim purchases on hold, and a huge vote of confidence for conveyancing solicitors.

This week: A rocky road ahead, but opportunities exist, ghost bidders - ghost property profits, and L.E.A.D needs instructors.

This week: "I never intended to pass transfer", UK plans to improve conveyancing, Standard Bank dumps mortgage originator.

This week: FNB House Price Index looks positive, yet Standard bank sees no spark, while conveyancing reform in England seen as self serving.

This week: FNB Residential Property Barometers for Cape Town and Johannesburg, and the Absa House Price Index.

This week: FNB Property Barometers for vacant land, Nelson Mandela Bay and eThwekini.

This week: FNB Property Barometers for Tshwane, a Mortgage Market Update, and beware of shysters.

This week: Bank manager nasties, FNB housing affordability index, the Residential Property Cycle, and being a conveyancing client.

This week: Price your property right, FNB building and fixed investment update, building plans passed and the Rode Report.

This week: Streamline wins court case, FNB House Price Index, and 2010 impact to be long-term.

This week: Eskom and other home cost effects, Absa house price indices, and tenants must avoid distressed landlords.

This week: Daylight saving at Livingstone Leandy, Paddocks offering sectional title scholarships, and the expropriation whip to be cracked.

This week: Surviving a slump, scrambling to sell, and mortgage advances continue to decline.

This week: Property wish list for the budget, asking prices, and R50,000 a month for an ordinary home.

This week: Estate agents unite, lending a hand, and the effect of the electricity crisis on property.

This week: bearish and bullish, five scary effects, and the annual SAPOA convention.

This week: carnage among agents, be diligent on plot and plan sales, and the land expropriation bill.

This week: Building spat, land process blamed for costly homes, and Nedbank Property (Cape) projected to increase turnover.

This week: House prices drop, expropriation bill opposition and mortgage advances growth dips below 20% .

This week: Deducting property taxes, interest rates to knock sales, and deregulated systems preferable.

This week: Emigration, check your property boundaries, and going bust.

This week: A correction, a revolt, and Section 35A's implication for emigrating sellers.

This week: the effects of tighter lending, interest rates, and the land bill faces a challenge.

This week: A double rate hike looms, using technology to buy property, and the top end is still buoyant.

This week: Free fall predicted, new life to old neighbourhoods, and crossing the bar.

This week: Rental property, the next seven biblical years, and swapping property out of a CC.

This week: The domino effect, finding value in property, and the National Treasury welcomes the Banking Enquiry Report.

This week: Absa confirms the plunge, chancers, and the Credit Act saved South Africa.

This week: investing in residential property, untrained agents, and a healthy big picture.

This week: a push for change, middle market house price growth, and bankers are placing their bets on commercial property.

This week: the release of the first oobarometer, dumping the Land Occupation Bill and e-conveyancing is a load of tosh.

This week: Tito's property crash "cushion", established estate agents, and purchasing property as a "legal entity".

This week: Expropriation Bill is shelved, why do we buy property, and instalment sale agreements.

This week: Good news for property, when God is acting, and property sales start to improve.

This week: the worst and the best, the Property Charter, and electronic acceptance of an offer to purchase.

This week: edging towards deflation, fiddling with figures and the long term outlook for property is positive.

This week: New ideas for housing and finance needed, lowest growth in 15 years, and e-conveyancing not a priority.

This week: Standard Bank tightens credit screws, interesting trends in SA housing and underwater mortgages.

This week: Mortgage advances, stamp duty on property leases scrapped, and the drama continues with Australia's NEC e-conveyancing system.

This week: Market overview, E-Conveyancing funds not wasted, and foreign ownership of land.

This week: Six reasons to be cheerful, Credit Act 'saved house market', and township property booms.

This week: Now is the time to buy, owners and tenants in court, and a haunted mortgage book.

This week: undervaluing homes, don't bank on the benefits of an interest rate cut and coping with the current financial crisis.

This week: Investing in 2007, a chance to own one's own house, and Denton action.

This week: R140m for 3ha in Sandton CBD, fraud charges, and flying property in 2008.

This week: Transfer duty cuts on cards, a crouch before property leaps, and affording the average house.

This week: Seven-year itch, mixed property plan, and maybe sectional title trustees should get paid for their jobs.

This week: What R800 000 will get you, check the rent, and property web sites power ahead.

This week: House price growth, long leases becoming an option, and a ruckus in Mpumalanga.

This week: Be your own estate agent, Reits, soaring Cape property prices, and building plans up

This week: Jhb evictions continue, not necessarily higher taxes and sub-prime lending in SA.

This week: Bryanston idles, clarity on short term leases, and cash back on your bond.

This week: Home buyers and sellers are in tune, new challenges and ten trends keeping property on the boil.

This week: Big estate agencies, Cape Town property valuations - pay up, and the source of water rights.

This week: Cape Town home prices, no leave to appeal, and Cape Town's 'green' bylaws.

This week: Average home price to hit R1 million, Credit Act implications, and the establishment of a Green Building Council.

This week: Bubble is far away, FIC investigations, and HIPS should be put on the scrap heap.

This week: Estate agent qualifications, Johannesburg rates, and a loophole for buyers.

This week: Transnet sells housing loan book, Banks, the NCA and you, a call for the Deeds Registry to be deemed an essential service.

This week: low price growth, the NCA and its effects on house sales, and land transfers.

This week: Jo'burg to cut development red tape, bond cancellation fees, and land registration in India.

This week: Foreigners can continue to buy, the Coastal Management Bill, and rezoning in Johannesburg.

This week: mortgage advances cool, house prices, and housing lists.

This week: Property pain has just begun, US loan crisis, and the Insider Colour Supplement #1.

This week: Evictions, land claimants must get their papers in, and the benefits of e-conveyancing.

This week: Conveyancing mistakes, the new gold belt and give advance notice when cancelling a bond.

This week: Recognising the next best thing, pinch to relax, property nuts.

This week: Cheaper houses in the limelight, a home loans shake up, and keeping informal settlements.

This week: Richtersveld case ends, Integer captures loan applications, and KwaZulu's valuation race.

This week: Paddocks offers scholarships in property management, understanding the NCA, and getting one's tax in order.

This week: The NCA, interest rates and their effects, land reform, and Johannesburg rates.

This week: Survival guide, a loota continua, and an estate agents' assessment centre launched.

This week: Mortgage approvals stabilise, pay-back for nasty neighbours, and an electronic system is closer in Australia.

This week: Being a millionaire, slowdown in house prices escalating, and estate agent exam exstension welcomed.

This week: Don't abandon ownership, logging on for mortgages, and home is where the holiday is.

This week: Cheaper legal fees, Dark Age banking and "because we can".

This week: Eco-crusader, EAAB welcomes DTI decision and Australian lawyer and estate agents perform over ethics gibe.

This week: The danger of 100% home loans, losing land, and house price growth declines.

This week: Property syndication rules, negligence, and an end to view battle.

This week: Koeberg housing project row, housing subsidies and mortgages slow.

This week: Problems with HIPs, illegal Johannesburg evictions, and the land moratorium.

This week: Willing buyer, willing seller principle, construction and property charters signed, and trashing green laws.

This week: Rode.co.za, sharp practices, and state should share the risk burden.

This week: A need to clarify foreign buyer policy, Korbitec Legal Golf Challenge, and the changing property market.

This week: Selling with tenants, spotting bargains, and now for some real skills.

This week: land reform on track, count your blessings, and a property conference.

This week: walkway halted, lowest house price growth in five years, and Gautrain land grab.

This week: new houses are cheaper, insurance and 'Tesco' law in the UK.

This week: a shift in living trends, mortgage advances, and housing the millions.

This week: SA house prices outstrip all others, Irish land law reform bill and dealing in property online.

This week: Land Registry, a windfall for Saambou clients, and shaky foundations.

This week: low house price growth, "One South African, one holiday home" - a good read, and land claims.

This week: leasehold as an alternative, house hunting on Mondays, and agents who 'buy' sole mandates.

This week: Educating estate agents, FICA compliance, and getting ugly.

This week: Property panic is over, property as a pension and where the billions are.

This week: Building frenzy slows, rentals to rise, and the beast is back.

This week: Rates rock investors, testing the "Chain Matrix" system, and sellers appointing conveyancers in land claims.

This week: Real house prices decline, CGT, and valuation industry needs to play catch up with boom.

This week: Township demand, mass culling of estate agents and over 65s to access home equity.

This week: SA awash with estate agents, criminals buying property, and worsening house affordability.

This week: A rift is brewing, SA house price growth slips, and a lack of progress.

This week: Property guides before tribunal on cartel rates, housing backlog grows, and mushrooming shopping centres.

This week: Real house prices face fall, mortgage tax relief urged, and buying repossessed properties.

This week: Continuing chill, granting a bond, and the 2014 land target.

This week: Missing housing bubble by a whisker, illegal land invaders, and attorneys should hold tenants' deposits.

This week: golf ball ruling, narrowing the gap, and baring their beauty.

This week: Offers can fall through, foreigners could face property ban, but they are losing interest anyway.

This week: Buying property overseas, protecting your property and the next property trend.

This week: Fairview row continues, land claims to be settled in 2005, and a man buys an aviary for his mother-in-law to live in.

This week: the property market to let out some air, buying foreign property, and speeding up property searches.

This week: an effort to ease the housing backlog, number of estate agents on the rise, the effect of property prices on estate duty.

This week: property - less of a seller's market, Johannesburg town planners resign and the national obsession with real estate.

This week: the housing market could get chilly, the failure of land grabs in Zimbabwe and securitisation of loans.

This week: Worldwide deed scam, a boom in vacant land and British Land tells lawyers to work smarter.

This week: Rowdy Scotsmen, 3 Bo-Kaap tenants evicted for "Parasitic occupation", and the World Cup will lift property prices.

This week: KZN land claim settlements, a deeds mountain to conquer and the need to read the small print.

This week: Property firms in UK must "catch up", South African valuers are too conservative and the Municipal Property Tax Act is regarded as mostly good news.

This week: Bo-Kaap preservation plea, flat plans fall flat, and "Ian Revue" steals £800,000 in stamp duty.

This week: Property charter offers huge promise, builders renege on house-building contracts and property title is the key to wealth creation.

This week: SA property relatively cheap, low cost housing on golf estates, and buy to let not the best proposition.

This week: Nedbank's hunger for home loans, you can't just pocket the rent, and the housing market is cooling off.

This week: Improve, don't overcapitalise, expensive houses not selling, and the ripple effect.

This week: PA BetterBond's huge deal, lawyers must restore faith in property deals, and plebeians continue to love Tuscan.

This week: Mortgage originators rip off, seven nasty property traps and a clampdown on shady deals.

This week: Delays in property transfers, credit under the microscope, and are we an abnormal society?

This week: Victorian solicitors ahead in the conveyancing battle, 62 000 land claims settled, and the Atlantic seaboard bubble experiences a blow-out.

This week: More lending but fewer transactions, a call to review land policy, and American homes are still selling.

This week: Agents can help state on land reform, learning from Zimbabwe, and the offshore endgame.

This week: Home demand patterns changing, a call for affordable mortgages, and free conveyancing.

This week: Fly-by-night estate agents, sharp practices and mortgage originators, and neighbours clash over view.

This week: Board lashed for lack of action, house prices exceed replacement costs, and leading a double life.

This week: Absa tightens lending rules, home loan gloves come off, and cracks appearing in property and building charters.

This week: Expropriation hailed by SACP, hopes for the housing compact, and Tsotsi landlords.

This week: Boom gates to stay, property looking for a soft landing, and 'spot the ball and win my flat'.

This week: high housing demand, tax incentives for developers, and buying land on the moon.

This week: Boom gates, mortgage growth rockets, and large differences in housing affordability.

This week: Housing model shines, land claims, and sectionalisation in South Africa.

This week: view dispute in Bryanston, end of EAAB strike, and pricey land boosts house prices.

This week: Voetstoets, HIP HIP Hurray, and the property boom could fund the Gautrain.

This week's bytes include: mortgage broking in Australia, the land registry mess in Uganda, a devious mortgage fraud that almost succeeded, and buying property in space.

This week: a call for the reform of property laws; holiday homes under threat; and illegal land invaders are given their marching orders.

Included in Bytes this week: land reforms, fraud, "flipping", Zulu descendants of a Scot get rights to land and a property nightmare.

This week: land reform, woman property owners, automated title searches and a panel to probe foreign land ownership.

This week: housing grants to the poor, mortgage advisers and poor service, and property taxes on foreigners.

This week: Scotland wants to change laws governing property deals, taxpayers could face hefty fines over CGT, and a rate cut could derail property market.

This week: New Zealand wants to stop its land sell-off, Tasmanian estate agents might be compelled to disclose the worst defects in houses and the Welsh wonder who owns parts of their country.

This week: New Australian shared equity loan, title deed confusion in Zambia, and a businessman wins his battle over shopping mall land in Durban.

This week: an opinion on tenants' rent, lawyers to bid for work and the launch of the Urban Renewal Tax Incentive scheme.

This week: Water is a public resource; tread the servitude minefield carefully, and England to introduce new mortgage rules to protect mortgagees.

This week: shooting to defend property, high resolution property photos and mortgage gripes rise in Australia.

This week: South African tycoons fight over prime piece of land, market-driven fees "unfair" to house buyers and get your mortgage at the checkout.

This week: Goodbye feudalism, hello feuds, restrictions on boom gates and demand outstrips supply in housing market.

This week: Estate agents get clobbered, stealing houses and paperless mortgages.

This week: Greedy developers, building a property owning democracy and Australia wants to abolish stamp duty on property transfers.