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GENERAL - S 18(3) sales – a response - Section 18(3) sales - Company law update LINKS - Links (A - H) - Links (I - Y) INTERNATIONAL - Solicitors stress - Innovative insurance NCA NEWS - Consumer Protection Bill - KYC fees - Waiver of exceptions - Clobbering - NCA Q's and A's: Credit providers - II IT & THE LAWYER - Move to technology - Citation index - The future E-CONVEYANCING - Impasse broken - One giant leap - Two is better than one PEOPLE & NEWS - Budget 2010 - Rates clearance closure - Eversheds - Enforcement TABLES OF COSTS - Conveyancing Tables - July 2009 - Apportionment of fees LAW REPORTS - Executable properties - Pappalardo SECTIONAL TITLES - Reserving the right - Similarities and differences - Paddocks Press – January 2010 WEB BYTES - Web Bytes 274 - Web Bytes 273 - Web Bytes 272 PRACTICE MANAGEMENT - Risk Management in Your Legal Business - Building blocks - Continuous learning STATISTICS - Figures - Survey II - Transfer duty collections - Pietermaritzburg - D O backlog statistics BOOKS - The Practitioner's Guide (second edition) - The ABC of Conveyancing     Web Bytes 274 This week: FNB February house price index, SA 24th on property rights index, and the growing need to buy a smaller home. More... Web Bytes 272 This week: Fixed investment update, banks cautious on 100% bonds, and South Africa's best property returns. More... Web Bytes 270 This week: FNB January House Price Index, don't renege on contracts, three property investment styles and a note on the section 9(20). More... Web Bytes 268 This week: FNB building and fixed investment statistics, the effect of social media on the property industry, and legal writing workshops. More... Web Bytes 266 This week: Household financial conditions, an insatiable appetite for property and the building sector is not out of the woods. More... Web Bytes 264 This week: Streamline wins court case, FNB House Price Index, and 2010 impact to be long-term. More... Web Bytes 262 This week: Price your property right, FNB building and fixed investment update, building plans passed and the Rode Report. More... Web Bytes 260 This week: House price inflation continues, Standard Bank sees house prices bottoming out, and property increasingly part of middle class investors' retirement portfolio. More... Web Bytes 258 This week: FNB Property Barometers for vacant land, Nelson Mandela Bay and eThwekini. More... Web Bytes 256 This week: FNB Residential Property Barometers for Cape Town and Johannesburg, and the Absa House Price Index. More... Web Bytes 254 This week: It's property time, we deserve every cent, and estate and managing agents must register when collecting arrear debts. More... Web Bytes 252 This week: A rocky road ahead, but opportunities exist, ghost bidders - ghost property profits, and L.E.A.D needs instructors. More... Web Bytes 250 This week: property prices are perking up, land claim purchases on hold, and a huge vote of confidence for conveyancing solicitors. More... Web Bytes 248 This week: credit crunch is good for property, bringing in the lawyers and the pros and cons of long leases. More... Web Bytes 246 This week: Lower interest rates not working yet, commercial property still buoyant, and beware the implications of making promising statements. More... Web Bytes 244 This week: a mild recovery, quick fixes for desperate property sellers, and keeping the paper trail when exercising an option to renew a lease More... Web Bytes 242 This week: firms sheltered from global market turmoil, FNB House Price Index, and a power struggle with public mudslinging. More... Web Bytes 240 This week: more pain looms, the impact of green building legislation in the future, and a baked bean protest. More... Web Bytes 238 This week: FNB House Price Index, there is hope for the SA property market, and conveyancers must focus on purchases. More... Web Bytes 236 This week: affordable housing could face a sub-prime crisis, selling your property - the options, and March building statistics. More... Web Bytes 234 This week: Standard Bank Residential Property Report, FNB House Price Index, and buy property soon or weep. More... Web Bytes 232 This week: the law of relativity applied to investments, rent shocker ruling, and the pitfalls of rent-to-own agreements. More... Web Bytes 230 This week: Absa house price indices, the March Oobarometer, and the first mortgage to be signed electronically in England. More... Web Bytes 228 This week: Home loan applications in the dustbin, private selling, and a bid to protect homeowners in forced sales. More... Web Bytes 226 This week: Property corruption shocker, exodus, and tackling the housing backlog. More... Web Bytes 224 This week: Blood on the floor, negative equity and paid referrals. More... Web Bytes 222 This week: Property and Budget 2009, GhostPractice rolls out 12 more sites, divorce rates fall with house prices. More... Web Bytes 220 This week: Luxury homes, "Cooling off" threshold to be increased, and conveyancing specialists go into receivership. More... Web Bytes 218 This week: fewer estate agents, 12 year low house price growth, and Oz conveyancers in layoffs. More... Web Bytes 216 This week: Now is the time to buy, owners and tenants in court, and a haunted mortgage book. More... Web Bytes 214 This week: Six reasons to be cheerful, Credit Act 'saved house market', and township property booms. More... Web Bytes 212 This week: further property declines for 2009, missing a trick, and a practical approach is necessary. More... Web Bytes 211 This week: Mortgage advances, stamp duty on property leases scrapped, and the drama continues with Australia's NEC e-conveyancing system. More... Web Bytes 209 This week: dwindling estate agent numbers, early revival signs and the rising credit toll on properties. More... Web Bytes 207 This week: edging towards deflation, fiddling with figures and the long term outlook for property is positive. More... Web Bytes 205 This week: the worst and the best, the Property Charter, and electronic acceptance of an offer to purchase. More... Web Bytes 203 This week: R75bn needed for redistribution, "loaded" deals and how VAT affects property speculation. More... Web Bytes 201 This week: Tito's property crash "cushion", established estate agents, and purchasing property as a "legal entity". More... Web Bytes 199 This week: the release of the first oobarometer, dumping the Land Occupation Bill and e-conveyancing is a load of tosh. More... Web Bytes 197 This week: FNB survey shows a five year low, estate agents patch up their differences, and a property law shocker. More... Web Bytes 195 This week: Absa confirms the plunge, chancers, and the Credit Act saved South Africa. More... Web Bytes 193 This week: The domino effect, finding value in property, and the National Treasury welcomes the Banking Enquiry Report. More... Web Bytes 191 This week: Banks and the property slump, green building, and quick conveyancing. More... Web Bytes 189 This week: A double rate hike looms, using technology to buy property, and the top end is still buoyant. More... Web Bytes 187 This week: the effects of tighter lending, interest rates, and the land bill faces a challenge. More... Web Bytes 185 This week: VAT issues, a battling property market, and worrying legalities. More... Web Bytes 183 This week: Deducting property taxes, interest rates to knock sales, and deregulated systems preferable. More... Web Bytes 181 This week: House prices drop, expropriation bill opposition and mortgage advances growth dips below 20% . More... Web Bytes 179 This week: Property boundaries, a row is brewing, and SA residential property is impressive by world standards. More... Web Bytes 177 This week: bearish and bullish, five scary effects, and the annual SAPOA convention. More... Web Bytes 175 This week: Estate agents unite, lending a hand, and the effect of the electricity crisis on property. More... Web Bytes 173 This week: More home for less, ABSA, DBSA to fund cheap homes, and court chaos over eviction order. More... Web Bytes 171 This week: Daylight saving at Livingstone Leandy, Paddocks offering sectional title scholarships, and the expropriation whip to be cracked. More... Web Bytes 169 This week: Don't abandon ownership, logging on for mortgages, and home is where the holiday is. More... Web Bytes 167 This week: Land Register in UK, more can afford property in SA, and a plea for a first time subsidy. More... Web Bytes 165 This week: Survival guide, a loota continua, and an estate agents' assessment centre launched. More... Web Bytes 163 This week: The NCA, interest rates and their effects, land reform, and Johannesburg rates. More... Web Bytes 161 This week: Tough times for property, NHBRC and Sapoa bridge differences, and ANC objects to land ownership study. More... Web Bytes 159 This week: Cheaper houses in the limelight, a home loans shake up, and keeping informal settlements. More... Web Bytes 157 This week: Recognising the next best thing, pinch to relax, property nuts. More... Web Bytes 155 This week: No ban on sale to foreigners, slowing prices, and listing race. More... Web Bytes 153 This week: Property pain has just begun, US loan crisis, and the Insider Colour Supplement #1. More... Web Bytes 150 This week: mortgage advances cool, house prices, and housing lists. More... Web Bytes 148 This week: house prices could double by 2011, building boom to continue, and quicker, greener house buying. More... Web Bytes 146 This week: low price growth, the NCA and its effects on house sales, and land transfers. More... Web Bytes 144 This week: Transnet sells housing loan book, Banks, the NCA and you, a call for the Deeds Registry to be deemed an essential service. More... Web Bytes 142 This week: Credit law implications, 'sleepy solicitors', and dispossessed farmer ruling. More... Web Bytes 140 This week: Average home price to hit R1 million, Credit Act implications, and the establishment of a Green Building Council. More... Web Bytes 138 This week: Cape Town home prices, no leave to appeal, and Cape Town's 'green' bylaws. More... Web Bytes 136 This week: 'Apartheid' town planning, clarity on the coastal bill and the transfer process explained. More... Web Bytes 134 This week: Bryanston idles, clarity on short term leases, and cash back on your bond. More... Web Bytes 132 This week: Jhb evictions continue, not necessarily higher taxes and sub-prime lending in SA. More... Web Bytes 130 This week: Rates and Cape Town, housing crisis, and expropriation issues. More... Web Bytes 128 This week: What R800 000 will get you, check the rent, and property web sites power ahead. More... Web Bytes 126 This week: Seven-year itch, mixed property plan, and maybe sectional title trustees should get paid for their jobs. More... Web Bytes 124 This week: Municipal rates crunch, Hout Bay rezoning, and honours for Meumann White Attorneys of KwaZulu Natal. More... Web Bytes 122 This week: Investing in 2007, a chance to own one's own house, and Denton action. More... Web Bytes 120 This week: Foreign land sales, clarifying the stance on evictions, and buying process is a mystery to many. More... Web Bytes 118 This week: golf ball ruling, narrowing the gap, and baring their beauty. More... Web Bytes 116 This week: Missing housing bubble by a whisker, illegal land invaders, and attorneys should hold tenants' deposits. More... Web Bytes 114 This week: Cracks in house price data, smaller houses, and New Zealand's property law bill. More... Web Bytes 112 This week: Property guides before tribunal on cartel rates, housing backlog grows, and mushrooming shopping centres. More... Web Bytes 110 This week: A rift is brewing, SA house price growth slips, and a lack of progress. More... Web Bytes 108 This week: Bad taste, super growth in house prices over, and the V&A has been sold. More... Web Bytes 106 This week: Real house prices decline, CGT, and valuation industry needs to play catch up with boom. More... Web Bytes 104 This week: Rates rock investors, testing the "Chain Matrix" system, and sellers appointing conveyancers in land claims. More... Web Bytes 102 This week: Empty designer flats, an office boom, and an action plan. More... Web Bytes 100 This week: Educating estate agents, FICA compliance, and getting ugly. More... Web Bytes 098 This week: leasehold as an alternative, house hunting on Mondays, and agents who 'buy' sole mandates. More... Web Bytes 096 This week: House price growth lower, is the party over and an Australian building society scandal. More... Web Bytes 094 This week: SA house prices outstrip all others, Irish land law reform bill and dealing in property online. More... Web Bytes 092 This week: a shift in living trends, mortgage advances, and housing the millions. More... Web Bytes 090 This week: Change, easy buying, DIY developing, and an unhappy housing minister. More... Web Bytes 088 This week: land reform on track, count your blessings, and a property conference. More... Web Bytes 086 This week: Selling with tenants, spotting bargains, and now for some real skills. More... Web Bytes 084 This week: property barons, Standard Chartered wants to grow, and house price growth. More... Web Bytes 082 This week: Willing buyer, willing seller principle, construction and property charters signed, and trashing green laws. More... Web Bytes 080 This week: Problems with HIPs, illegal Johannesburg evictions, and the land moratorium. More... Web Bytes 078 This week: Banning sales of land, errant developers and illegal practices. More... Web Bytes 076 This week: The danger of 100% home loans, losing land, and house price growth declines. More... Web Bytes 074 This week: Eco-crusader, EAAB welcomes DTI decision and Australian lawyer and estate agents perform over ethics gibe. More... Web Bytes 072 This week: high-tech land resurvey project, no property collapse and the crisis that isn't. More... Web Bytes 070 This week: Voetstoets, HIP HIP Hurray, and the property boom could fund the Gautrain. More... Web Bytes 068 This week: EAAB strike, what estate agents will not tell you, and the property bubble is a myth. More... Web Bytes 066 This week: Boom gates, mortgage growth rockets, and large differences in housing affordability. More... Web Bytes 064 This week: high housing demand, tax incentives for developers, and buying land on the moon. More... Web Bytes 062 This week: property taxes rise by stealth, property as a pension, and different valuations. More... Web Bytes 060 This week: Absa tightens lending rules, home loan gloves come off, and cracks appearing in property and building charters. More... Web Bytes 058 This week: Board lashed for lack of action, house prices exceed replacement costs, and leading a double life. More... Web Bytes 056 This week: U-turn on Zimbabwe comments, a 'Blind man could see residential property boom is near its end' and no national address register. More... Web Bytes 054 This week: Agents can help state on land reform, learning from Zimbabwe, and the offshore endgame. More... Web Bytes 052 This week: More lending but fewer transactions, a call to review land policy, and American homes are still selling. More... Web Bytes 050 This week: Stiff new law to protect environment, the property market is not in a bubble, and mortgages are up by R10bn a month. More... Web Bytes 048 This week: Mortgage originators rip off, seven nasty property traps and a clampdown on shady deals. More... Web Bytes 046 This week: PA BetterBond's huge deal, lawyers must restore faith in property deals, and plebeians continue to love Tuscan. More... Web Bytes 044 This week: cluster living, property transfer duties soar, and a restitution loophole is to be closed. More... Web Bytes 042 This week: SA property relatively cheap, low cost housing on golf estates, and buy to let not the best proposition. More... Web Bytes 040 This week: Property charter offers huge promise, builders renege on house-building contracts and property title is the key to wealth creation. More... Web Bytes 038 This week: Mortgage originators generate billions in loans, the property charter, and estate agents' conflicts of interest. More... Web Bytes 036 This week: KZN land claim settlements, a deeds mountain to conquer and the need to read the small print. More... Web Bytes 034 This week: Rowdy Scotsmen, 3 Bo-Kaap tenants evicted for "Parasitic occupation", and the World Cup will lift property prices. More... Web Bytes 032 This week: Name changes, property auctions and a punt on township property. More... Web Bytes 030 This week: property - less of a seller's market, Johannesburg town planners resign and the national obsession with real estate. More... Web Bytes 028 This week: an effort to ease the housing backlog, number of estate agents on the rise, the effect of property prices on estate duty. More... Web Bytes 026 This week: a plasma TV with the mortgage, occupation is not possession, and extending land claims. More... Web Bytes 024 This week: Buying property overseas, protecting your property and the next property trend. More... Web Bytes 022 This week: Greedy developers, building a property owning democracy and Australia wants to abolish stamp duty on property transfers. More... Web Bytes 020 This week: Estate agents get clobbered, stealing houses and paperless mortgages. More... Web Bytes 018 This week: loans for the poor in South Africa, abolition of the feudal system in Scottish land law, and municipal costs explained. More... Web Bytes 016 This week: shooting to defend property, high resolution property photos and mortgage gripes rise in Australia. More... Web Bytes 014 This week: Water is a public resource; tread the servitude minefield carefully, and England to introduce new mortgage rules to protect mortgagees. More... Web Bytes 012 This week: Conveyancing attorneys in Barbados, estate agents slug it out in Sydney and an advanced search and information package for lawyers in England. More... Web Bytes 010 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. More... Web Bytes 008 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. More... Web Bytes 006 This week includes: home loans surge by 18,3%, the need for speedier land reform and a vindictive laird. More... Web Bytes 004 Included in Bytes this week: land reforms, fraud, "flipping", Zulu descendants of a Scot get rights to land and a property nightmare. More... Web Bytes 002 This week: a call for the reform of property laws; holiday homes under threat; and illegal land invaders are given their marching orders. More... Web Bytes 273 This week: CPI and Eskom tariff hikes, 500 000 shacks to be upgraded, and SARB Leading Indicator. More... Web Bytes 271 This week: Praise for Aus e-conveyancing initiative, sectional title overcrowding, and auctions - the next decade. More... Web Bytes 269 This week: FNB comment on the interest rate decision, trustees rights, and how to avoid property tax by getting more wives. More... Web Bytes 267 This week: FNB House Price Index, it is still bad, but get some tips, and estate agents give their views on what to expect in 2010. More... Web Bytes 265 This week: Eskom and other home cost effects, Absa house price indices, and tenants must avoid distressed landlords. More... Web Bytes 263 This week: Property24 wins, Levitt is no longer a property bear, and a rate cut is unlikely. More... Web Bytes 261 This week: Bank manager nasties, FNB housing affordability index, the Residential Property Cycle, and being a conveyancing client. More... Web Bytes 259 This week: FNB Property Barometers for Tshwane, a Mortgage Market Update, and beware of shysters. More... Web Bytes 257 This week: Bouncing back, crime situation still a cause for concern for property, and banks won't be forced to ease credit extension. More... Web Bytes 255 This week: FNB House Price Index looks positive, yet Standard bank sees no spark, while conveyancing reform in England seen as self serving. More... Web Bytes 253 This week: "I never intended to pass transfer", UK plans to improve conveyancing, Standard Bank dumps mortgage originator. More... Web Bytes 251 This week: House prices are showing stronger signs of market improvement, home loans business should perk up soon, and a workshop on environmental law offered by L.E.A.D. More... Web Bytes 249 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. More... Web Bytes 247 This week: signing on the dotted line, proposed new fee tariffs for property valuers, and the July FNB House Price Index. More... Web Bytes 245 This week: Whither the agents, why we should be sceptical about the house market, and feeling the pinch. More... Web Bytes 243 This week: an up tick in property prices, brighter borrowing and be sure to exercise an option in good time. More... Web Bytes 241 This week: health of building industry requires intensive care, tax breaks loom for property investors and life rights for retirees explained. More... Web Bytes 239 This week: Absa house price indices, avoiding dud tenants, and learning about risk and return? More... Web Bytes 237 This week: FNB building cost indices, how SA's property prices rank, and a forfeited farm dispute is resolved. More... Web Bytes 235 This week: the abstract theory of transfer, collecting rent from recalcitrant tenants, and you're hired! More... Web Bytes 233 This week: swimming pools, private sales vs estate agent sales, and auctions showing a positive reaction from rates cuts. More... Web Bytes 231 This week: Simplified electrical certificates, Land Registry hikes fees to make ends week and a big finger. More... Web Bytes 229 This week: Can things get any worse, regulating the mortgage origination industry, and Land Registry online? More... Web Bytes 227 This week: Low rates won't boost building, what a body corporate is not responsible for, and the UK Law Society to probe the home buying process. More... Web Bytes 225 This week: The science behind improved billing, FNB House Price Index, and how attorneys manage property deposits. More... Web Bytes 223 This week: Bond originators must stay, collapsing from the bottom, demand nosedives. More... Web Bytes 221 This week: buying property via SMS, sole mandates, and property values to turn. More... Web Bytes 219 This week: costly war erupts, Standard Bank Residential Property Gauge, and land rights lost. More... Web Bytes 217 This week: undervaluing homes, don't bank on the benefits of an interest rate cut and coping with the current financial crisis. More... Web Bytes 215 This week: a review of the township markets, property developments, and smaller affordable homes. More... Web Bytes 213 This week: Market overview, E-Conveyancing funds not wasted, and foreign ownership of land. More... Web Bytes index Links to articles on property law, the mortgage industry, bank news, property news, the off-beat and related tangential ephemera culled from the web during the last week. More... Web Bytes 210 This week: Standard Bank tightens credit screws, interesting trends in SA housing and underwater mortgages. More... Web Bytes 208 This week: New ideas for housing and finance needed, lowest growth in 15 years, and e-conveyancing not a priority. More... Web Bytes 206 This week: qualifying for a bond, the chain gang and South Africa's tough credit rules will buffer us from the sub prime crisis. More... Web Bytes 204 This week: Good news for property, when God is acting, and property sales start to improve. More... Web Bytes 202 This week: Expropriation Bill is shelved, why do we buy property, and instalment sale agreements. More... Web Bytes 200 This week: property bulls and their dust, a ray of hope for rates, and tips for retaining one's property. More... Web Bytes 198 This week: a push for change, middle market house price growth, and bankers are placing their bets on commercial property. More... Web Bytes 196 This week: investing in residential property, untrained agents, and a healthy big picture. More... Web Bytes 194 This week: the Expropriation Bill, tough to get a home loan, and getting tax deductions for property repairs. More... Web Bytes 192 This week: Rental property, the next seven biblical years, and swapping property out of a CC. More... Web Bytes 190 This week: Free fall predicted, new life to old neighbourhoods, and crossing the bar. More... Web Bytes 188 This week: Green HIPs, semigration, and a tax tip for fixing up rental property. More... Web Bytes 186 This week: A correction, a revolt, and Section 35A's implication for emigrating sellers. More... Web Bytes 184 This week: Emigration, check your property boundaries, and going bust. More... Web Bytes 182 This week: Not long before property turns the corner, title insurance, and residential developers in Cape Town's uncertainties eased. More... Web Bytes 180 This week: Building spat, land process blamed for costly homes, and Nedbank Property (Cape) projected to increase turnover. More... Web Bytes 178 This week: carnage among agents, be diligent on plot and plan sales, and the land expropriation bill. More... Web Bytes 176 This week: Next-door right argued in court, borrowers' blues, and Tabloid Tuesday. More... Web Bytes 174 This week: Property wish list for the budget, asking prices, and R50,000 a month for an ordinary home. More... Web Bytes 172 This week: Surviving a slump, scrambling to sell, and mortgage advances continue to decline. More... Web Bytes 170 This week: Year of the property bear? E-Conveyancing means faster deals and counter negativity with facts. More... Web Bytes 168 This week: Being a millionaire, slowdown in house prices escalating, and estate agent exam exstension welcomed. More... Web Bytes 166 This week: Mortgage approvals stabilise, pay-back for nasty neighbours, and an electronic system is closer in Australia. More... Web Bytes 164 This week: Rental market to fly, don't delay property plans, and Rudco fails to pay lenders. More... Web Bytes 162 This week: Paddocks offers scholarships in property management, understanding the NCA, and getting one's tax in order. More... Web Bytes 160 This week: Richtersveld case ends, Integer captures loan applications, and KwaZulu's valuation race. More... Web Bytes 158 This week: Take land, not payouts, boom time for some estate agents, and mortgage originators save SA consumers billions of rand. More... Web Bytes 156 This week: Conveyancing mistakes, the new gold belt and give advance notice when cancelling a bond. More... Web Bytes 154 This week: Evictions, land claimants must get their papers in, and the benefits of e-conveyancing. More... Web Bytes 151 This week: no hurray for Hips, rates hikes slow rise in house prices, and how to make a building pay. More... Web Bytes 149 This week: Foreigners can continue to buy, the Coastal Management Bill, and rezoning in Johannesburg. More... Web Bytes 147 This week: Jo'burg to cut development red tape, bond cancellation fees, and land registration in India. More... Web Bytes 145 This week: Blowing up the coastline for a view, Easier2Move saves time, and problems with the NHBRC's new code of conduct. More... Web Bytes 143 This week: Estate agent qualifications, Johannesburg rates, and a loophole for buyers. More... Web Bytes 141 This week: Bubble is far away, FIC investigations, and HIPS should be put on the scrap heap. More... Web Bytes 139 This week: Residential property still performing well, common data standards, and the foreigners are back. More... Web Bytes 137 This week: Big estate agencies, Cape Town property valuations - pay up, and the source of water rights. More... Web Bytes 135 This week: Home buyers and sellers are in tune, new challenges and ten trends keeping property on the boil. More... Web Bytes 133 This week: Building better municipalities, firm house prices, and Durban's plans logjam. More... Web Bytes 131 This week: Be your own estate agent, Reits, soaring Cape property prices, and building plans up More... Web Bytes 129 This week: House price growth, long leases becoming an option, and a ruckus in Mpumalanga. More... Web Bytes 127 This week: skyrocketing Cape property values, Oudekraal, and inner-city evictions. More... Web Bytes 125 This week: Transfer duty cuts on cards, a crouch before property leaps, and affording the average house. More... Web Bytes 123 This week: R140m for 3ha in Sandton CBD, fraud charges, and flying property in 2008. More... Web Bytes 121 This week: Residential property price growth slows sharply, squatters' rights and municipal rates. More... Web Bytes 119 This week: Offers can fall through, foreigners could face property ban, but they are losing interest anyway. More... Web Bytes 117 This week: township property sales boom, interest rate hike is being "absorbed" and protecting landlords. More... Web Bytes 115 This week: Continuing chill, granting a bond, and the 2014 land target. More... Web Bytes 113 This week: Real house prices face fall, mortgage tax relief urged, and buying repossessed properties. More... Web Bytes 111 This week: Speeding up land reform, Nedbank in housing loan deal, and why foreigners wanted the V&A Waterfront. More... Web Bytes 109 This week: SA awash with estate agents, criminals buying property, and worsening house affordability. More... Web Bytes 107 This week: Township demand, mass culling of estate agents and over 65s to access home equity. More... Web Bytes 105 This week: Cocking a snoot, state to sell properties, and a liquid market coming. More... Web Bytes 103 This week: Building frenzy slows, rentals to rise, and the beast is back. More... Web Bytes 101 This week: Property panic is over, property as a pension and where the billions are. More... Web Bytes 099 This week: World cup fever, speculators, and sectional title office and industrial schemes. More... Web Bytes 097 This week: low house price growth, "One South African, one holiday home" - a good read, and land claims. More... Web Bytes 095 This week: Land Registry, a windfall for Saambou clients, and shaky foundations. More... Web Bytes 093 This week: the township property market, house-price growth, and delays caused by zoning. More... Web Bytes 091 This week: new houses are cheaper, insurance and 'Tesco' law in the UK. More... Web Bytes 089 This week: walkway halted, lowest house price growth in five years, and Gautrain land grab. More... Web Bytes 087 This week: Expropriations, houses still affordable for most, and long lost deeds. More... Web Bytes 085 This week: A need to clarify foreign buyer policy, Korbitec Legal Golf Challenge, and the changing property market. More... Web Bytes 083 This week: Rode.co.za, sharp practices, and state should share the risk burden. More... Web Bytes 081 This week: Gautrain, slowdown in building plans, and issuing title deeds to shacks. More... Web Bytes 079 This week: Koeberg housing project row, housing subsidies and mortgages slow. More... Web Bytes 077 This week: Property syndication rules, negligence, and an end to view battle. More... Web Bytes 075 This week: Sunshine state targeted, retirement property and how about a change in SA property industry. More... Web Bytes 073 This week: Cheaper legal fees, Dark Age banking and "because we can". More... Web Bytes 071 This week: Slowdown? What slowdown? Pressure on agents and EU mortgage integration. More... Web Bytes 069 This week: view dispute in Bryanston, end of EAAB strike, and pricey land boosts house prices. More... Web Bytes 067 This week: Housing model shines, land claims, and sectionalisation in South Africa. More... Web Bytes 065 This week: How mortgage originators work, an industry holding its breath (over EAAB), and only 14% of South Africans own property. More... Web Bytes 063 This week: Boom gates to stay, property looking for a soft landing, and 'spot the ball and win my flat'. More... Web Bytes 061 This week: Expropriation hailed by SACP, hopes for the housing compact, and Tsotsi landlords. More... Web Bytes 059 This week: Managing sectional title complexes properly, homeowners can score big, and a new scam. More... Web Bytes 057 This week: Fly-by-night estate agents, sharp practices and mortgage originators, and neighbours clash over view. More... Web Bytes 055 This week: Home demand patterns changing, a call for affordable mortgages, and free conveyancing. More... Web Bytes 053 This week: The Zim route, house price growth prospects could turn bleak, and land reform. More... Web Bytes 051 This week: Victorian solicitors ahead in the conveyancing battle, 62 000 land claims settled, and the Atlantic seaboard bubble experiences a blow-out. More... Web Bytes 049 This week: Delays in property transfers, credit under the microscope, and are we an abnormal society? More... Web Bytes 047 This week: Transfers give receiver a tax gap, finding a house in an expensive market, and Zimbabwe's plight. More... Web Bytes 045 This week: Improve, don't overcapitalise, expensive houses not selling, and the ripple effect. More... Web Bytes 043 This week: Nedbank's hunger for home loans, you can't just pocket the rent, and the housing market is cooling off. More... Web Bytes 041 This week: Valid electrical certificates of compliance, Oudekraal development, and tax implications when buying commercial property. More... Web Bytes 039 This week: Bo-Kaap preservation plea, flat plans fall flat, and "Ian Revue" steals £800,000 in stamp duty. More... Web Bytes 037 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. More... Web Bytes 035 This week: The online buying boom in South Africa, mortgage fraud in the USA and Unlucky 118. More... Web Bytes 033 This week: Worldwide deed scam, a boom in vacant land and British Land tells lawyers to work smarter. More... Web Bytes 031 This week: the housing market could get chilly, the failure of land grabs in Zimbabwe and securitisation of loans. More... Web Bytes 029 This week: land owners to be classified, vacant land outperforms housing and Big Bay land sales scrapped. More... Web Bytes 027 This week: the property market to let out some air, buying foreign property, and speeding up property searches. More... Web Bytes 025 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. More... Web Bytes 023 This week: protection from title defects in the USA; property in India and the merit of "aggressive" offers. More... Web Bytes 021 This week: Calls to seize land, mortgage lenders in USA plan to outsource, and beware bogus estate agents. More... Web Bytes 019 This week: Goodbye feudalism, hello feuds, restrictions on boom gates and demand outstrips supply in housing market. More... Web Bytes 017 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. More... Web Bytes 015 This week: Mortgage brokers under disclosure spotlight; new land laws in Kenya, and scams are fuelling squatting in the Philippines. More... Web Bytes 013 This week: an opinion on tenants' rent, lawyers to bid for work and the launch of the Urban Renewal Tax Incentive scheme. More... Web Bytes 011 This week: New Australian shared equity loan, title deed confusion in Zambia, and a businessman wins his battle over shopping mall land in Durban. More... Web Bytes 009 This week: DIY selling, a law to control unruly renters and a mortgage fraud epidemic in the USA. More... Web Bytes 007 This week: housing grants to the poor, mortgage advisers and poor service, and property taxes on foreigners. More... Web Bytes 005 This week: land reform, woman property owners, automated title searches and a panel to probe foreign land ownership. More... Web Bytes 003 Bytes this week include landowners winning a 10-year battle, mortgage fraud growth and land policy in Kenya. More... Web Bytes 001 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. More... Note that the information in this web site and or links, is provided for information purposes only and is not intended to constitute legal advice. It is supplied subject to our legal disclaimer. Search the Digest t t