By the Newsletter Team Gerrie Scheepers is the CEO and executive director of Vision Properties, a property management, letting and sales company. Gerrie started working in the property industry in…
By Anton Kelly The Sectional Titles Act and the prescribed rules provide relatively complicated processes for certain operations. Getting everything right depends on a fairly comprehensive knowledge of the Act…
By the newsletter team Sectional title scheme executives often need support in carrying out their day-to-day scheme management duties. Members of community schemes regularly need assistance in establishing and enforcing…
By Pierre Heistein Property bubbles seem like strange things: if everyone wants to buy and build better property, why should this cause the prices and investments to crash? Using a…
By Prof Graham Paddock Petitions and controlling the managing agent Q1. We have received two weeks’ notice of our AGM and I would like to submit a petition signed by…
By Prof Graham Paddock Cash-flow Assurance as opposed to Levy Finance The type of insurance referred to in the Sectional Titles Act and the prescribed management rules is “indemnity insurance”.…
By Prof Graham Paddock Sectional Titles Amendment Act, No. 11 of 2010 was published as Notice No. 1172 in Government Gazette No. 33849 of 7 December 2010. Pages 4 to…
By Anton Kelly It is unusual for executives of home owners’ associations (HOAs) to be held personally liable for a failure of the association to perform any of its obligations.…
By the Newsletter Team Jennifer Gerhard, a portfolio manager for Holiday Plett, a property management company, has over 20 years of experience in the property industry – yet she still…
By Mike Addison Dealing with insurance claims is often one of the most misunderstood areas in sectional title and very quickly leads to conflict and unpleasantness. Knowing the basics and…
By Anton Kelly Most new residential properties in South Africa are developed either as a sectional title scheme or as a home owners’ association. Complexes, gated villages and cluster…
By the Newsletter Team Nohlene Kieck, who lives in Ruimsig, is a qualified chartered accountant and a partner at Lund & Kieck, an audit practice. She started her career at…
By Rob Paddock When portions of your scheme’s common property garden become informal pathways, the grass doesn’t have a chance to grow and the water never drains properly. What…
By Jennifer Paddock Although a body corporate is a legal entity capable of entering into contracts with both legal and natural persons, it is not a natural person itself and…
By Prof Graham Paddock Proof that body corporate is under administrationQ1. In terms of section 46 of the Sectional Titles Act, where a body corporate has been placed under administration…
By Neil de Goede Rule 64(a) in Annexure 8 (the Prescribed Management Rules) made under the Regulations to the Sectional Titles Act 95 of 1986 is a powerful weapon in…
By Andre De Waal When you buy into a sectional title complex it’s different from buying a standalone house and likewise the insurance for a sectional title complex is complex…
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