PROPERTY RELATED ARTICLES

A servitude gives someone else a right over your land. How to check whether one is registered against a property, and where it is recorded.

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This is a question we get quite often. There seems to be confusion about when the actual owner change reflects on the Deeds Office search. Sometimes people think our info is outdated, but that is not the case.

Read more about The result on my DOTS search shows REGISTERED but the Deeds Office search still shows the previous owner

Title deed numbers follow a fixed pattern - type, number, year and office. How to read one, and what each part tells you.

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They are the same document. "Title deed" is what owners call it; "deed of transfer" is what the Deeds Office registers it as. What that means in practice.

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Wow, another year has passed and what a journey. We have grown immensely over the past year and have introduced quite a few new searches.

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What a mortgage bond registration involves at the Deeds Office, how long it takes, and how to get a copy of a registered bond document.

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An onerous title deed condition that isn’t discovered in time could delay or prevent the progress of a property development resulting in serious cost implications for the developers. Alternatively, such an omission could be costly when buying or selling property.

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A property valuation is an estimated market value of a property, determined using a sophisticated statistical calculation. An accurate and detailed property valuation is sometimes called a CAV (Computer Assisted Valuation).

Read more about Property valuations, prices, trends and statistics for most homes in South Africa

Empower yourself by keeping track of your property's value and the buying and selling trends in your suburb. Also, make the right decisions when putting in an offer on your next home or lodging a municipal rates objection.

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When you buy a property, you need to get the Title Deed transferred into your name. This deed constitutes proof that you are the owner of the property. You will need the assistance of a conveyancer to help you transfer the Title Deed into your name.

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