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This month has been a very busy Women’s Month at Greyvensteins Inc. In preparation for Women’s Month, we hosted Professor Thuli Madonsela and Clinical Psychologist Charissa Bloomberg from Hidden Dimensions at our office. We also enjoyed a relaxed boat trip with Professor Madonsela and her son and showed off our beautiful coast line. The relaxed […]

Water usage in Sectional Title Schemes has long been a debate, sparking arguments and contention between tenants, landlords and body corporates alike. The Water Services Act regulations of 8 June 2001 initially gave a 2 year period within which all sectional title schemes, built prior to the commencement of the Act, were to comply with […]

Calculate the financial implications of selling your home The correct certification If your home is fitted with an electrical system, an electric fence, and gas appliances, the compliance certificates for the validity of these installations are required before the successful transaction of your home. Depending on where your home is located, additional beetle and plumbing […]

Here at Greyvensteins, we are proud to say that the first few months of 2018 have been spent with very special people. February was an exciting month commencing with Mayor Athol Trollip addressing us at our monthly Property Forum. In his address, much light was shed onto the current water crisis the Eastern Cape is […]

The dissolution of marriage in South Africa is regulated by our Divorce Act and the Matrimonial Property Act. These acts do not require parties contemplating divorce to enter into divorce mediation. However, our courts have recently started increasing the pressure on legal practitioners to advise their clients to enter into divorce mediation before the parties […]

Moya Rossouw Section 18 of Criminal Procedure Act 81 of 1977 (hereafter: “CPA”) states that a case cannot be brought against a person accused of sexual abuse if the alleged incident happened more than twenty years ago. The South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg recently heard an application which challenged this section of the law, […]

In a recent matter in The Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, Greyvensteins Incorporated, acting on behalf of a local Port Elizabeth property owner, appealed the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality Rates rates clearance certificate policy and won the case. Rates Clearance Certificate necessary for transfer of property The Metropole had refused to issue […]

“I applied to my municipality to have the building plans for the extension of my garage approved. The municipality rejected my proposed extension on the grounds that it would be constructed over a servitude registered against my title deed in favour of the municipality. What is servitude? Can I have it removed?” Personal Servitude – […]

Insolvency is not being able to pay your accounts on time and in full, and is probably the most stressful situation a business owner will ever experience. What most people don’t realise is, that it is in fact, a very common occurrence affecting all entrepreneurs at some point in their business lives. Some famous multi-billionaires […]

Body Corporates (BC) established in terms of The Sectional Titles Act, 1986 (Act No 95 of 1986) were empowered to require owners of units within the scheme to contribute a monthly levy. The levy raised had to be sufficient to cover the day to day repairs, upkeep, control and management of the common property. The […]