General
Capacity to sell - response
08 March 2012
Thabo Nqhome responds to Capacity to sell about the selling of immovable property in the context of the Administration of Estates Act.Description
08 March 2012
Allen West discusses the huge impact of the new Companies on the description of companies in deeds and documents lodged at deeds registries for registration.A spanner in the works
15 March 2012
Samantha Thornhill gives advice on what to do when a company has been silently deregistered, thereby potentially delaying a property transaction by two to four months.Differentiation
29 March 2012
Practitioners must be wary when wording praedial servitudes. Merely referring to the owner and not the property is tanatmount to creating a personal servitude.Extension of suspension
29 March 2012
City of Cape Town - the suspension of templates of previous rates clearance certificates has been extended to 30 April 2012.Initialling of alterations
12 April 2012
Allen West discusses the instances when full initialling of alterations or interlineations on Powers of Attorney, Consents or Applications is required.Transfer duty receipts
19 April 2012
Clarification as to what information is necessary and which alterations and errors are acceptable to Registrars in transfer duty receipts.Did you know - III?
03 May 2012
Allen West lists some interesting conveyancing facts about monetary figures, Eskom servitudes and the amendment of divorce agreements and of a person's status.Unauthorised payments of trust money
03 May 2012
Ann Bertelsmann highlights examples of inventive and convincing methods fraudsters have used to obtain unauthorised and premature payments of trust money.Inflated price
17 May 2012
A conveyancer has asked if it is fraud to artificially increase the purchase price of a property to include transfer and bond registration costs?
