Property Valuations info

It may be cliché to quote the old adage ‘not to put all your eggs in one basket’, but if there’s ever an area where that becomes the dictates of wisdom, it’s in the advice [...]

Just when you’re patting yourself on the back for securing tenants, the party ends when the rent is habitually late, or worse, absent altogether. The same goes for the other side of the coin, should [...]

Every one praised the stalwart commercial property developers in Johannesburg city centre when they first persuaded investors to buy up the unoccupied building in the city centre, evicted the squatters and refurbished them into dazzling [...]

To enter the labyrinth that is quintessential to the property market, be sure to ‘cross all the t’s’ and ‘dot all the i’s’. One of your best friends in the process needs to include a [...]

There has been a significant increase in the number and size of retail shopping centres situated in, or close to, residential properties in the South African retail landscape over the past few decades. Shopping centres [...]

It’s never easy to accurately assign a value to a business, and many people liken it more to an art than a science. This holds particularly true when it comes to start-up companies. Established businesses [...]

The reopening of the land claims is causing major uncertainty, especially in the agricultural sector. What is Land Restitution? Land restitution is one of the key issues since South Africa achieved democracy in 1994. The [...]

Servitudes, including municipal servitudes, can affect the value of a property for both buyers and sellers. While it may not be an issue for some, there are buyers who can be turned off once they [...]

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is an international organisation with a history spanning over 100 years. It promotes and enforces the highest standards in the management, development and valuation of real estate, land, [...]

Buying something that doesn’t yet exist. At first glance, that sounds like the riskiest investment you could make, but take a second and third look and you’ll see it’s actually what everyone does when they [...]

When a company merges with or is taken over by another, the shareholders of that company have certain intrinsic rights, one of which is that their shares are purchased at a fair value. Naturally, both [...]

Samuel Johnson is quoted as saying, “Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.” We South Africans fully appreciate the value of our agricultural land. While [...]

Buying property, when done wisely, is rarely a bad decision. Although property markets do flatten out occasionally, they always pick up again eventually, and if you’ve bought a decent property in a good area, it [...]

If there was ever a time to have a crystal ball to see what the property market in South Africa is going to do in the short and medium term, it is now! There are [...]

The services required from professional valuer are extremely varied, which is one of the factors making valuation such an interesting and challenging occupation. Perhaps one of the most interesting tasks a valuer can be called [...]

Calculating the true present value of the vehicles making up your company’s fleet is not as simple as taking the book value and subtracting an amount for depreciation. And yet this how most companies reflect [...]

A security (or secured) bond is one that uses a specific asset as a form of collateral against the amount being borrowed. In the event of the borrower defaulting on the loan, the asset is [...]

In October last year, two new Acts relating to the management of Sectional Title developments were promulgated – the Community Services Ombuds Service Act, and the Sectional Title Schemes Management Act (STSMA). The STSMA is [...]

When selling your home, business or any other asset by auction, establishing a realistic and market-related reserve price is critical in order to ensure the auction proceeds with an acceptable momentum, and that your asset [...]

At its most basic level, Gross Current Replacement Cost (GCRC) is exactly what it says on the tin – the estimated cost of replacing an asset or property with the same quality of construction and [...]

The terms used when we talk about what something is worth can get a little confusing for the man in the street. Investors and other business professionals often talk about “Fair Market Value,” which is [...]

For a business to make money, it needs to buy stock at a low price and sell it at a higher price. Service retailers operate under the same principle, except they sell their service for [...]