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Time to revisit the five year rule

Jan 26, 2013 12:31:30 PM Share this:

It’s time to the revisit the five year rule for buying a home, says Richard Gray, CEO of Harcourts Real Estate.


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Topics: Residential, South Africa

Numbers of young professional estate agents rising in SA

Nov 30, 2012 3:29:18 PM Share this:

Mirroring a similar trend in the USA, a growing number of young adults in South Africa are choosing real estate broking as a career rather than an occupation by default.


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Topics: Residential, South Africa

Bring facts to the rates fight, advises Harcourts

Nov 29, 2012 12:58:40 PM Share this:

Cape Town home owners who disagree with their 2013 property valuations will need to base their objections on fact if they hope to win their cases.


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Topics: Residential, South Africa

Why Durban North is a perfect suburb

Nov 13, 2012 3:13:45 PM Share this:

Durban North is the perfect suburb.


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Topics: Residential, South Africa

Property prices relative to income after eight years

Nov 2, 2012 3:32:38 PM Share this:

Property prices, relative to income, are back to levels last seen around 2004.


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Topics: Residential, South Africa

Germiston a gold mine for luxury home buyers

Nov 1, 2012 11:57:53 AM Share this:

Luxury home buyers with an eye on value are forsaking traditional hunting grounds for Lambton and Klippoortje in Germiston, where similar properties cost up to three times less than in areas such as Bedfordview.


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Polokwane property in demand as local economy prospers

Oct 17, 2012 2:36:46 PM Share this:

Increasing awareness of property’s long-term asset value is ensuring steady demand for homes in Polokwane, where house prices have grown by more than six percent since the beginning of the year.


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Should you buy a property that’s been on the market for a year?

Oct 10, 2012 10:54:48 AM Share this:

At the height of South Africa’s property boom, houses were selling within weeks, if not days, of being listed and it was only the most problematical properties that remained unsold month after month.


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Topics: Residential, South Africa

Young professionals driving Rustenburg’s new development market

Oct 10, 2012 10:04:23 AM Share this:

Most of the 350 units in Rustenburg’s new Woodridge residential development have been snapped up - prior to the first brick being laid.

That’s according to Adina Harmse, principal of Harcourts Achievers in Rustenburg, who says that the majority of buyers here, as is the
case in the area’s other new developments, are young professionals keen to get a foothold in the property market.

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Rare window of opportunity in St Francis Bay

Oct 6, 2012 1:05:29 PM Share this:

St Francis Bay, a picturesque village on the Sunshine Coast where the price for a canal-side home averages anywhere from R4,5m to R10m, has long been a playground for the wealthy.


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Topics: Residential, South Africa