Young home buyers, especially first-time buyers, are flocking to smaller, more outlying towns in the Western Cape’s Boland and Overberg regions, such as Malmesbury, Wellington, Worcester, Elgin and Grabouw.
After almost two years of historically-low home loan borrowing costs, the country is now back into a hiking cycle, says Samuel Seeff, chairman of the Seeff Property Group
Most buyers who are considering a sectional title property know by now that they should first check how much the monthly levy is and what it covers before making an offer to purchase.
PayProp has published its latest rental index, showing South Africa's rental growth rebounded in the first quarter of 2022.
The City of Cape Town expects its population to expand rapidly by approximately 400,000 people between 2020 and 2025, with the influx expected to have implications for service delivery in the area.
Home services company Kandua.com has reported an increase in semigration enquiries across South Africa as more employees aim to work from home permanently or move to a hybrid approach.
The need for cyber vigilance is now vital, more so where it involves money and property transactions, according to the Seeff Property Group.
Seeff Property Group says that people are increasingly choosing to relocate to smaller towns following the onset of the Covid pandemic, citing data from research group Lightstone.
A new symptom of the Covid-19 crisis and work-from-home business model is plaguing residents in community housing schemes like sectional title complexes and residential estates: barking dogs.
After two years of Covid being the main driving force behind property investment decisions, the war in Ukraine has added a new dynamic which is now also fuelling the increase in foreign investors in Cape Town’s upmarket Constantiaberg region where…