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Sole mandates should demand that extra mile

Sole mandates are worth every seller’s serious consideration. The benefits for sellers are numerous with the most important points being...

It is the marketing plan that counts in selling your home

Well marketed show houses can attract up to 15 visitors in a day and several can achieve immediate offers to purchase.

Important tips for selling your home

The property market is looking good. Most Wakefields Real Estate branches report a shortage of good well priced stock

Properties to rent needed

A critical shortage of rental property has developed in Durban according to Wakefields Real Estate letting agents and if this continues

Property market continues its upward trend

The property market is on a roll. Ooba reports that property prices in April were up 5,6% on the same month last year and that April was the sixth consecutive m

The Reality of Property

There is a valuable, but not easy, lesson property investors must learn about their asset...

No Transfer Duty - Trick Or Treat?

Saving money when buying directly from a developer is appealing to most, but is it really a saving or simply marketing speak?

Marginal short term impact on property expected from interest rate hike

Last week’s surprise 0,5% interest rate increase taking the prime rate to 9% has people asking what next and pondering the effect on the property market...

Interest rate move: A view from the Wakefields Real Estate Chief Executive

Gill Marcus took everyone by surprise with her 50 basis point interest rate increase last week. In one poll of 25 economists, none had predicted the upward move

Leverage in property investments?

Property is one asset class where it is possibly easiest to purchase an asset for a far higher price...

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