Legal and Property Advice from the Professionals
This week, the Property Poser experts grapple with an interesting question from a tenant regarding the merits of a verbal lease contract over one in which the terms are reduced to writing. According to Lucille Geldenhuys from Lucille Geldenhuys Attorneys in Stellenbosch, South African law recognises both written and oral agreements. "In order for an agreement to be concluded, all parties … [Read more...]
An anxious reader tells the Property Poser experts that she concluded a rental agreement with a tenant, which specifically stated that one month’s notice would be given to vacate the premises should the property be sold. The lease agreement was on a month-to-month basis. Earlier this year it appears that the property was, in fact, sold and around this time the tenant gave notice to both owner … [Read more...]
This week our in-house Property Poser expert assists a reader who is a tenant in a mall that appears to be floundering. The reader writes that many shops, including the anchor tenant, have left the centre. Unfortunately, he did not anticipate the exodus and resulting downturn in business and extended his lease. The lessee now wishes to reduce his monthly rental or be released from his … [Read more...]
This week's scenario presented to our Property Poser panel relates to the early cancellation of a lease by a landlady. The tenant recently received a call from the person in question, who requested that she vacate the property as soon as possible to accommodate her daughter who was unexpectedly returning from overseas. During the conversation the landlady, who realised that she was … [Read more...]
Our panel often receives questions about suspensive conditions linked to property sales. These conditions affect not only the buyers and sellers but also the estate agent involved in the sale and, very often, third-party buyers and sellers who are waiting on fulfilment of a deal on which their own property transaction depends. This week we take a look at a set of facts presented by someone … [Read more...]
This week’s reader may soon find herself without a roof over her head after selling her house and signing an offer to purchase another. To her shock, her bond application was denied and in the process she realised there was no clause in the contract protecting her from this eventuality. She contacted the agent, who is doing both deals, asking her why there was no such clause. The agent … [Read more...]
Ons paneel het ’n opvolgvraag na aanleiding van ’n onlangse artikel oor verhurings ontvang – dié keer van ’n verhuringsagent. Die agent sê nadat die oorspronklike termyn van een van sy huurkontrakte verval het, het die huurder en huiseienaar ’n privaatkontrak vir ’n verlenging gesluit. Hy vergelyk dit met wanneer ’n kliënt agter ’n agent se rug ’n koopkontrak met … [Read more...]
Ons paneel deskundiges het ’n vraag van ’n leser ontvang wat oor die kosteberekening van seëlregte handel. Sy wil weet of seëlregte op huurkontrakte steeds volgens die tradisionele formule bereken word en of dit met ’n belasting soortgelyk aan oordragkostes vervang is. Volgens Lucille Geldenhuys van Lucille Geldenhuys Prokureurs op Stellenbosch het die Wet op Seëlregte 77 van … [Read more...]
Ná ons leser reeds vir 'n geruime tyd 'n wooneenheid deur 'n eiendomsagent gehuur het, het die eienaar van huuragentskappe verwissel. Die leser is nou deur die nuwe agent in kennis gestel dat haar munisipale waterrekening agterstallig is. Volgens haar sluit die huurbedrag wat sy met die oorspronklike eiendomsagent ooreengekom het, die onkoste van water in. Sy sê die tweede agent het … [Read more...]
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