General
The Legal Practice Bill and Conveyancers
25 February 2003
A discussion of submissions made by the Property Law Committee of the Law Society of South Africa that specifically concern conveyancers.What is Title Insurance?
25 February 2003
Giving an overview of title insurance, this article looks at the types of policies that can be taken out in the United States.Transfer Duty Act - ouch
25 February 2003
The South African Revenue Services (SARS) has, with the Revenue Laws Amendment Act, No. 74 of 2002, tightened a popular loophole. Owners are no longer allowed to put residential properties into trusts, companies and close corporations, thereby avoiding paying transfer duty on the value of the property.SA pays through the nose for property
24 March 2003
In an old (July 2001) but thought provoking article from the Financial Mail, republished in Banking News, the author maintains that additional costs to property transactions in South Africa are among the highest in the world.Financial Inducements
02 April 2003
Roger Green asks an apparently simple question, "Should a conveyancer provide a financial inducement to an intermediary in order to get work?" He reckons that the answer to this question should concern every conveyancing attorney, mortgage originator, estate agent and bank.More on the Legal Practice Bill
02 April 2003
The effects of the Legal Practice Bill on South Africa's 14 000 attorneys are discussed in a survey comprising three articles which appeared in the Business Times on 23 March. Threats to the attorney's traditional sources of income, multi-disciplinary practices and the proposals for a single governing body for the legal profession are covered.Conveyancing is legal work
15 April 2003
The author of a letter headed Transportbesorging is regswerk, in the Letters, Opinion section of the July 2001 edition of De Rebus, maintains that conveyancing is legal work and that it should only be performed by lawyers who are schooled in the law.Strategic alliances
30 April 2003
The trend towards law firms strategically aligning themselves with property franchises is steadily increasing and a large number of Aida National Franchises, franchises are being purchased by attorneys.The nomination of a conveyancer in KwaZulu-Natal
06 May 2003
In the Letters, Opinion section of the May 2003 edition of De Rebus, Roger Green looks at the seller's right to nominate the conveyancer in the light of the abrogation through disuse where the purchaser had that right.How long to an e-conveyancing reality?
07 May 2003
Dream or reality within 4 years? What do you think, vote in the survey on our home page.
