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Top 20 millionaire suburbs
(2010-01-05T11:24:51+00:00 ) - Real Estate Web
Golf estates dominate list of South Africa's most valuable residential areas. South Africa's wealthiest citizens favour golf estates, property value statistics provided to Realestateweb by data service provider Lightstone show.
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Suburban bliss
(2009-12-04T07:09:34+00:00 ) - Financial Mail
Year-end is when people change jobs and find homes in new cities. Bottom of the property cycle is the best time to invest. Ian Fife gives you a guide on where to find the great suburbs, and how to track down good investments When house prices were rocketing by up to 30% a year over the past few years, buyers.
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Property valuations: Get a discount!
(2009-11-13T12:39:09+00:00 ) - Real Estate Web
Special offer for Realestateweb newsletter subscribers Property data services provider Lightstone and property news and information website Realestateweb - part of the listed Moneyweb group (stock code: MNY) - have teamed up to make accessing property valuations and suburb reports easy and cost-effective for.
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Property profits: Getting the purchase price right
(2009-11-06T10:24:38+00:00 ) - Real Estate Web
How to chop thousands of rands off a property's offer price. There's a school of thought that "location, location, location" is not the most important guiding principle for property buyers.
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"I'm feeling bullish": Absa home loan boss
(2009-10-19T10:27:58+00:00 ) - Real Estate Web
Mortgage figures surge; real estate heavyweights say 2010 will be good property year. You might be pondering whether the worst is over for the residential real estate sector, but Absa's home loans' boss isn't in any doubt.
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(2009-10-15T13:21:31+00:00 ) - Ghost Digest
Residential property bouncing back RealEstateWeb - South Africa Property prices on upward trajectory - Deeds Office stats latest Lightstone's June repeat sales indices, released on Wednesday, confirm that house prices are leaving the doldrums and heading towards positive terrain.
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Residential property: bouncing back
(2009-10-14T14:10:11+00:00 ) - Real Estate Web
Property prices on upward trajectory - Deeds Office stats latest Lightstone's June repeat sales indices, released on Wednesday, confirm that house prices are leaving the doldrums and heading towards positive terrain.
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Bad reasons not to buy property
(2009-10-02T14:17:24+00:00 ) - Real Estate Web
Why you should ignore residential real estate sceptics One of the joys, and curses, of internet journalism is that you get instant feedback on your articles.
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Property market looks perky
(2009-10-02T11:01:35+00:00 ) - eProp
Intro Fresh leaves are beginning to form on the house market’s green shoots, with banks, rates, carry trade change mood. Ian Fife Banks, rates, carry trade change mood Agent turnovers pick up, but prices don’t Fresh leaves are beginning to form on the house market’s green shoots, says KwaZulu Natal agency...
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Green shoots, then leaves
(2009-10-02T08:38:11+00:00 ) - Financial Mail
The property market suddenly looks perky as loan approvals rise Fresh leaves are beginning to form on the house market's green shoots, says KwaZulu Natal agency chief Keith Wakefield.
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Nedbank offers 100% mortgages
(2009-09-30T15:17:41+00:00 ) - Real Estate Web
Another bank relaxes lending for property buyers as market brightens. Another bank has relaxed its deposit requirements for home loans, making it easier to buy property.
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Bumper winter sales for Atlantic Seaboard
(2009-09-30T10:02:40+00:00 ) - Real Estate Web
Prime stretch of Cape real estate reaches R200m in property sales, despite recession - Dogon. In another sign the property market is thawing, sales along the Atlantic Seaboard - arguably the most expensive residential real estate in Africa - were the highest in years this winter for Dogon Group Properties.
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Property prices: Good news pours in
(2009-09-28T15:57:37+00:00 ) - Real Estate Web
More signs residential real estate market is turning. Positive property market news has been pouring in lately - and there was more good news released by property valuations' company Lightstone on Monday.
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Price slump in property is a chance for new buyers
(2009-09-21T10:33:43+00:00 ) - Business Report
While the JSE rally has seen equity prices move up sharply since March, renewed confidence has not flowed over into the property market and householders are still seeing their homes decline in value.
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Property: the road ahead
(2009-09-14T10:15:43+00:00 ) - iafrica.com
Speakers at this year s popular annual Rode Property events countrywide had stern predictions for both residential and non-residential markets, with participants debating whether or not the 'green shoots' starting to appear in various sectors of the market are revealing any real indication of an upswing from.
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Now for the good news. . .
(2009-09-08T09:30:35+00:00 ) - Property 24
Homeowners are anxiously seeking signs that the property market downslide is levelling off. Unfortunately, there are mixed signals from analysts, but there are more rays of light than black clouds.
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Outperforming the world
(2009-08-28T09:58:15+00:00 ) - eProp
Intro The global collapse of property prices has passed us by, there have been small falls in prices of houses and secondary commercial property. Ian Fife The global collapse of property prices has passed us by.
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Signs of life in South Africa’s property market
(2009-08-27T22:14:38+00:00 ) - Engineering News
The economic slowdown, higher interest rates and tougher lending criteria have all led to a huge drop-off in the property development industry. Selected building statistics of the private sector, as reported by local government institutions and released by Statistics South Africa in May, this year, indicated.
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Residential property prices are perking up
(2009-08-25T15:16:51+00:00 ) - Real Estate Web
So why don't we all feel cheerful? A property sales' consultant in a foul mood phoned me this week to vent some spleen. Why, he demanded to know, do people visit show houses that are hopelessly beyond their financial reach, presumably wasting time for themselves and the estate agency person on duty in the...
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(2009-08-20T14:12:41+00:00 ) - Ghost Digest
SA's house prices are on the rise RealEstateWeb - South Africa Lightstone's repeat sales data shows house prices are moving up again Although Lightstone's National Repeat Sales house price inflation is still slightly negative year on year, it appears that the House Price Index bottomed out at the beginning...
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