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GENERAL - Patrimonial consequences - Property 24/10 - 26 - Liquidation of COs and CCs LINKS - Links (A - H) - Links (I - Y) INTERNATIONAL - Confused over conveyancing - R.I.P. HIPs NCA NEWS - Consumer Protection Bill - KYC fees - Waiver of exceptions - Clobbering - NCA Q's and A's: Credit providers - II IT & THE LAWYER - A market leader - Move to technology - Citation index E-CONVEYANCING - Fully electronic property - The future of conveyancing - Combined platform PEOPLE & NEWS - Clearance applications - City of Johannesburg - Credibility under fire - Fiasco TABLES OF COSTS - Conveyancing Tables - September 2010 - Schedule of fees – Sept 2010 LAW REPORTS - Simcha - Northview SECTIONAL TITLES - Total recall - Key differences - Capital of nature or capital punishment WEB BYTES - Web Bytes 300 - Web Bytes 299 - Web Bytes 298 PRACTICE MANAGEMENT - L.E.A.D updates - On the record - Paying your clients bills? STATISTICS - Survey 2010 - Figures - Transfer duty collections - Survey II - Pietermaritzburg BOOKS - The Practitioner's Guide (second edition) - The ABC of Conveyancing     SECTIONAL TITLES Total recall Roelie Rossouw argues that Conference Resolution No. 2/2009 should be recalled as it will lead to time delays, increased legal costs and slow the building of affordable housing. More... E-CONVEYANCING Fully electronic property The launch of Property24's Electronic Transfer Instruction (ETI) product will see a seamless, fully electronic property transaction information chain. More... GENERAL Property 24/10 - 26 This week's round up of the ten best or so Property24 stories of the week includes: the case for a buyers agent, negotiating a better loan rate, and a R2 million garage for sale. More... LINKS Links (A - H) A rapidly growing page of hyperlinks to attorneys firms' websites - for free. More... GENERAL Chief Registrar's Circular 7/2010 Chief Registrar's Circular No.7 of 2010 - Amended Schedule of Fees and the practice to be followed with regard to item 1(a). More... GENERAL Redistribution answer Allen West replies to a query by Donald Moore regarding redistribution agreements following Redistribution Agreements last week. More... WEB BYTES Web Bytes 299 This week: Deeds Office strike is bad news, small conveyancing firms under threat in UK and the bond registration process. More... GENERAL Redistribution agreements - legality When is it lawful to enter into a redistribution agreement asks Allen West? More... GENERAL Property 24/10 - 24 This week's round up of the ten best or so Property24 stories of the week includes: Make the move without the stress, sellers dropping their prices, and average deposit now R156k. More... TABLES OF COSTS Conveyancing Tables - September 2010 Changes have been made to theRecommended Guideline of Fees for Conveyance of Immovable Property to reflect the new Schedule of Fees which comes into effect on 1st September. More... GENERAL Subject to ties - V Thabo Nqhome responds to Dudley Lee's simple 4-point argument, certificate of title and the meaning of "dealing with". More... WEB BYTES Web Bytes 297 This week: Cape Town is top of South Africa's semi-gration patterns, Absa House Price Indices, and land fraud in Malaysia. More... GENERAL Subject to ties – IV Dudley Lee responds to Thabo Nqhome's arguments in Subject to Ties III with a simple argument. More... WEB BYTES Web Bytes 296 This week: FNB Cape Property Review, "mini-peaks" in residential property and deeds recording and land registration in the Bahamas. More... GENERAL Reversionary rights Allen West looks at the practice and procedures to be followed surrounding reversionary rights. More... PEOPLE & NEWS Clearance applications The City of Johannesburg recently released guidelines for conveyancing attorneys and members of the public when they apply for clearance figures. More... INTERNATIONAL Confused over conveyancing A survey in England has revealed widespread confusion about conveyancing and the legal process of transferring property ownership. More... SECTIONAL TITLES Confusion – a response Thabo Nqhome responds and has some suggestions to obviate the cost and negative impact referred to in last week's article Confusion. More... PRACTICE MANAGEMENT L.E.A.D updates Details of three L.E.A.D seminars on the Administration of Estates, Consumer Law and Environmental law which will be run over the next few months. More... WEB BYTES Web Bytes 294 This week: FNB Residential Residential Property Outlook, practical advice for renovations, and the Rode property report. More... PRACTICE MANAGEMENT On the record Traci-Ann Cripsey writes that good communication skills, especially one's listening skills are vital in tapping into the needs of one's clients. More... GENERAL Property 24/10 - 19 This week's round up of the ten best or so Property24 stories of the week includes: SAPOA drags Johannesburg Council to court, recovery still 12 to 18 months away, and PE's commercial hub. More... GENERAL Reversal – a reply Thabo Nqhome highlights issues surrounding legality and the applications of sections 16 and 31 of the Deeds Registries Act in responding to Reversal of intent. More... GENERAL Amendment Bill 13 of 2010 The Deeds Registries Amendment Bill, No. 13 of 2010 was published recently. It provides for the enactment of a number of amendments to the Act. More... GENERAL Reversal of intent Wiseman Bhuqa explores the reversal of the intentional vesting of property from one tier of government to another. More... SECTIONAL TITLES Amendment Bill 14 of 2010 The Sectional Tiles Amendment Bill, No. 14 of 2010 was published recently. It provides for the enactment of a number of amendments to the Act. More... GENERAL Subject to ties - III Thabo Nqhome does not agree that the words "….or in any other manner deal…" are "a little rider" and argues that they are a drag-net clause. More... GENERAL Restrictive conditions John Christie of J Leslie Smith & Company guides correspondents as to the correct wording for headings of restrictive conditions of title i.t.o. the "old" and the "new" Sectional Title Acts. More... PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Top ten tips How much more successful could law firms be if they employed more traditional business principles? More... GENERAL Chief Registrar's Circular 5/2010 Chief Registrar's Circular No.5 of 2010 - concerns the prohibition of expediting deeds other than deeds relating to land reform transactions. More... GENERAL Admin fee increase Administration fees for rates clearance applications in Cape Town will be increasing from 1 July this year. More... GENERAL Substitution of the appearer M S Mekwe considers this practice in the light of an obiter dictum in a Namibian case and RCR18 of 2009. More... PEOPLE & NEWS Credibility under fire The credibility of the Deeds Office is under fire after revelations that at least 33 properties were irregularly or fraudulently transferred. More... SECTIONAL TITLES A history A look at the beginnings of the UCT Sectional Title Scheme Management course since the first one in 2005 and its association with Paddocks. More... GENERAL Subject to ties Dudley Lee discusses the consolidation of agricultural land subject to tie conditions. More... SECTIONAL TITLES Courier – April 2010 Issue Number 36 of MCS Courier contains many articles of interest to the sectional title industry. More... GENERAL Lapsing of outspans The lapsing of outspans on the transfer of land in the former Transvaal. More... GENERAL Chief Registrar's Circulars 3 and 4/2010 Chief Registrar's Circulars No.3 and No.4 of 2010 - concern amendments to the Sectional Titles Act and Deeds Registries Act respectively. More... GENERAL Government Notice R291 and R292 Allen West discusses the latest amendments to the Deeds Registries Act and to the regulations in the Sectional Titles Act, highlighting their affect on the daily functioning of practitioners and deeds office staff. More... GENERAL Conference Resolutions 08(3) George Tsotetsi ends his discussion of twenty two of the seventy resolutions taken at the 2008 Registrars Conference. More... GENERAL Patrimonial consequences Wiseman Bhuqa and Allen West provide more clarity on the patrimonial and matrimonial consequences of marriages in terms of the Black Administration Act 38 of 1927. More... STATISTICS Survey 2010 The long awaited 2010 GhostDigest Survey into Conveyancing in South Africa has arrived and is ready for you to complete if you missed the earlier mailshot. More... WEB BYTES Web Bytes 300 This week: Mortgage and household credit, FNB Property Barometer - we are part of the world, and a quick history of demolishing buildings. More... LINKS Links (I - Y) The rapidly growing page of hyperlinks to attorneys firms' websites has grown into two pages. More... GENERAL Liquidation of COs and CCs Allen West draws attention to the liquidation of companies and close corporations and the lodgement of bonds for disposal in terms of s 56(1)(b) of the Deeds Registries Act. More... GENERAL Property 24/10 - 25 This week's round up of the ten best or so Property24 stories of the week includes: becoming more energy efficient, property and marriage, and homeownership is more than a nest egg. More... IT & THE LAWYER A market leader GhostConvey - After more than 26 years of business, GhostConvey remains the most cost effective and wide ranging conveyancing solution in the South African market. More... SECTIONAL TITLES Key differences Home owners' associations are not the same as sectional title schemes, and the differences are important. Rob Paddock dispels some recent confusion. More... WEB BYTES Web Bytes 298 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. More... GENERAL Cancellation of restrictive conditions The doctrine whereby purchasers of erven from a common vendor may enforce inter se restrictive conditions and attendant conveyancing issues are discussed by Allen West. More... GENERAL Property 24/10 - 23 This week's round up of the ten best or so Property24 stories of the week includes: Tantalising black décor, high rental demand and a market overview of coastal properties. More... TABLES OF COSTS Schedule of fees – Sept 2010 In terms of Government Gazette No. 33413 Notice No. R.659, a new Schedule of Fees of Office as prescribed by regulations 84 and 86 will come into operation next month. More... GENERAL Property 24/10 - 22 This week's round up of the ten best or so Property24 stories of the week includes: Going green, save for that deposit, and when votes are not allowed in sectional title meetings. More... GENERAL Positive and Negative Allen West highlights the need for conveyancers to distinguish between the creation of positive and negative personal servitudes. More... GENERAL Yet another innovation A new centralised matter list where you can view all your conveyancing matters as well as an enhanced management reports facility were recently released in GhostConvey v12.6. More... GENERAL Property 24/10 - 21 This week's round up of the ten best or so Property24 stories of the week includes: dollying up the place to rent, deeds scam could mean insurance, and what's behind the front door. More... WEB BYTES Web Bytes 295 This week: It's all FNB with FNB's Estate Agent Survey, Mortgage and Household Credit Barometer and their SARB Leading Indicator Property Barometers. More... SECTIONAL TITLES Capital of nature or capital punishment Clint Riddin unpacks with examples the debate of the treatment of capital expenditure in the books of a body corporate. More... GENERAL Property 24/10 - 20 This week's round up of the ten best or so Property24 stories of the week includes: building penalties, empowering the consumer, waiting to sell won't help and location, location…. More... SECTIONAL TITLES Confusion Nkuba Ngoashend gives an example of confusion caused by a fully exercised right of extension with open bond endorsements. More... SECTIONAL TITLES Paddocks Press – June 2010 The June free digital newsletter with its usual high quality content for the sectional title community was published recently. More... WEB BYTES Web Bytes 293 This week: FNB second quarter buy-to-let analytics, Road Accident Fund update, and when is it time to upgrade your property? More... PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Paying your clients bills? Softlog and GhostPractice together will ensure your firm recovers 100% of the recoverable costs incurred on behalf of clients. More... WEB BYTES Web Bytes 292 This week: Development land attracting investors, secrets of a successful estate agent and offshore property. More... PEOPLE & NEWS City of Johannesburg City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality v Gauteng Development Tribunal and Others - Chapters V and VI of Development Facilitation Act, constitutionality thereof. More... SECTIONAL TITLES Encroachments The practice for sectional title encroachments over public roads and public places in Cape Town. More... E-CONVEYANCING The future of conveyancing UK - A future where non-lawyers could set up conveyancing firms and even supermarket chains providing conveyancing services is predicted. More... PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Transactional billing What it is, the benefits, how it differs from a monthly rental, and how to edit the support fee in GhostConvey. More... GENERAL Response to substitution Thabo Nqhome agrees that the substitution allowed by RCR 18/2009 is legally indefensible and more specifically conflicts with section 20 of the Deeds Registries Act. More... GENERAL Subject to ties - II Dudley Lee agrees with Thabo Nqhome that a certificate of title is a title to land, he disputes a number of other issues however. More... GENERAL Effecting causae Explanatory notes on how to effect Section 9(20) transfers from juristic entities from within GhostConvey. More... PEOPLE & NEWS Fiasco The Johannesburg Attorneys Association (JAA) is reviewing its legal options as the issuing of municipal clearance certificates system collapses. More... GENERAL Subject to ties – a response Thabo Nqhome and Peter Newmarch agree and differ on a number of aspects with Dudley Lee's article about the consolidation of agricultural land subject to tie conditions. More... PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Policies and Procedures Running a business without clear cut policies and procedures could have dire consequences argues Matthew Spagnoletti. More... INTERNATIONAL R.I.P. HIPs UK - The requirement for homeowners to provide Home Information Packs when selling their homes is to be suspended immediately. More... LAW REPORTS Simcha Simcha Properties v San Marcus Properties - s288 of Companies Act - directors authorisation by sole shareholder to dispose of company's sole asset. More... PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Show me the money Kuben Naidoo considers the importance of having a defined debtor management process that works and is properly managed to collect money from your debtors. More... GENERAL Bond change Examples of new forms making provision for the application of Regulation 41(1) of the Deeds Registries Act to be implemented in GhostConvey in June. More... PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Understanding auditing Vincent Faris CA(SA) will be presenting a number of seminars around the country on understanding the practical auditing of a law firm and its operations. More... GENERAL Conference Resolutions 08(2) George Tsotetsi continues in his discussion of twenty two of the seventy resolutions taken at the 2008 Registrars Conference. 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. 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