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Savills adds buy-to-let specialist
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Dollars & La Dolce Vita: How Europe’s luxury homes became the hot ticket for America’s super-rich
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Heres Why Women Should Be Homeowners
By Berry Everitt Owning a home is a significant milestone in anyones life but for women especially, it provides many benefits in addition to long-term financial advantages, and in Womens Month, its a good idea to review some of the most important ones. First, owning a home offers a level of stability that renting just cannot match.
Here are the hottest property features in a WFH world
It is now clear that many of the changes in working, commuting and learning patterns that have come about because of the Covid-19 pandemic will become permanent adjustments for a great number of families - and will probably also bring about some rapid changes in what home buyers perceive as priority features.
Remote workers heading out of town
When we talk of semigration now, we are no longer just talking about the familiar pattern of movement from Gauteng to Cape Town, but about the worldwide counter-urbanisation or de-urbanisation movement, which sees people actively moving away from cities to smaller towns in search of a less stressful, more peaceful, country lifestyle, while still retaining their city jobs, if they wish to do so, by working remotely.
Investing in a home: Make sure you check for leaks
By Berry Everitt 11m ago Water damage in a home often goes unnoticed as home-owners deal with more obvious maintenance issues, but it can have far-reaching consequences and chew up huge amounts of time and money to rectify if you don’t pick it up quickly. Even a small hole in a roof can over time result in a rotting rafter or a waterlogged wall that could collapse or need to be replaced.
OPINION: What's in store for real estate
By Berry Everitt 19m ago DURBAN - The real estate industry will no doubt look very different by the end of this year to the way it looked before the Covid-19 pandemic - but in many cases the changes made will be extremely positive for estate agents and principals as well as their clients because of the potential for both better service and greater rewards.
Checklist for choosing a great suburb
Economy / 4 January 2020, 09:00am / Berry Everitt Berry Everitt, Chief Executive of Chas Everitt International property group.
PROPERTY: Brighter prospects for buy-to-let investors
Invest / 7 October 2019, 11:00am / Berry Everitt Berry Everitt. Supplied Although buying their own home is a big life goal for most people, many families in South Africa cannot afford to do so at this stage and must live in rented accommodation. The latest General Household Survey (GHS) conducted by Statistics SA shows that about 3.4million households are in formal rental accommodation and about 1million are in informal rental accommodation.
#SONA2019 serves up positive news for the housing sector
The very detailed State of the Nation Address dealt with all of the economic and social issues that are currently of concern to the real estate industry, including the need to rebuild investor and consumer confidence in SA, stimulate economic growth, accelerate job creation and eliminate widespread corruption.
#BizTrends2019: Residential market in for an interesting time
South Africa's residential market is in for an interesting time in 2019, but our predictions for the year are all positive, and we believe that home buyers and investors who take the plunge and buy early will be well-rewarded. Buyers and investors should not allow the current unsettled state of the global and local economies to cloud their vision of long-term gains.
Landlord for the holidays? Here's what you need to know
If you are lucky enough to live in a holiday town, renting out your home (or part of it) for the festive season can be a great way to boost your income and make January a lot less bleak. And there are lots of online platforms like Airbnb, Booking.com and HomeAway that make it easy to list your property and become a “rentrepreneur”. But there are also lots of swindlers out there among the real holidaymakers, so there are some precautions you really do need to take before you hand over your keys.
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