Feb 23, 2022 | Property Practitioners Bill
From 1 February 2022 all property sellers, buyers, landlords and tenants acquire a series of new rights and responsibilities. Although the Property Practitioners Act (“PPA”) is a complex piece of legislation and much of it will be of more interest to estate agents,...
Sep 18, 2019 | Home Inspections, Horror Stories, Property Practitioners Bill
In response to last years announcement that the Property Practitioners Bill has been passed by Parliament, Eric Bell, CEO of Inspect-a-Home and Executive Director of InterNACHI South Africa, says they fully endorses the idea that the home inspection industry should be...
Dec 7, 2018 | Home Inspections, Property Practitioners Bill, Selling Property
The long-awaited Property Practitioners Bill intended to transform the property market was passed in Parliament this week.
Dec 1, 2018 | Buying Property, Home Inspections, Property Practitioners Bill
Some of the proposed changes are positive and others will, inevitably, be contentious. These are some of the most dramatic changes to the regulatory framework currently in existence. Who or what is a “property practitioner”? The definition of “estate agent” in the...
Apr 30, 2016 | Buying Property, Estate Agents, Home Inspections
Some estate agents avoid pre-sale home inspections, believing that they may jeopardise the sale. In most cases, this is simply not the case. Either nothing serious is found or the buyer importantly purchases a property with full knowledge of its condition. Rather than...
