I have a buyer who wants to purchase my shares in a residential property owning company to avoid paying transfer duty. Can this be done and is this a loophole that SARS has not closed?

Before a Conveyancer may proceed to transfer a property from an estate to an heir the following information must be ascertained.

The Office of the Chief Registrar of Deeds is piloting a project to facilitate an Electronic Deeds Registration System (e-DRS).

The new Property Practitioners Act aims to better regulate and monitor processes, and has been heralded by estate agents as a vast improvement on the Estate Agency Affairs Act.

While there are many factors that influence property buyers’ preferred investment, as experienced property lawyers we’ve selected a few points that are commonly considered by when purchasing property.