How To Un-Mortgage South Africa Fixing past and present to secure your future BY NEALE PETERSEN
Property is representative of 15% of South Africa's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and could play a significant role in the country's economic recovery. Unfortunately, property supply continues to outweigh demand, says Ewald Kellerman of FNB. This is due to a number of reasons...
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SITUATIONS By Being Proactive How I turned tragedies into triumphs BY NEALE PETERSEN
Today, Mike Greeff is a successful property entrepreneur. He is a born and bred Capetonian who struggled his way through life at Rondebosch Boys School.
After failing in grade 10, his mother took him to an educational psychologist who said his school had not addressed his needs and advised him to go to Abbot’s College to finish off his schooling...
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The Property Playing Field Ensure that price hikes don't leave you out of pocket BY MONIQUE TERRAZAS
A number of very significant recent developments - including the sky-rocketing fuel prices, the implementation of e-tolling and government's renewed focus on fast tracking infrastructure development - will have a huge effect on the property sector. REI Mag takes a look at these developments and their potential impact, and provides some solid advice for investors who need to monitor and respond to these developments to maintain profitable property portfolios...
Commercial Brokers Helpful or harmful? BY MIKE SPENCER
When choosing a residential estate agent to work with, the world is your oyster: you can choose from many different companies and even more individual estate agents. However, when choosing a commercial estate agent, the choice is far more difficult, because there are actually very few competent commercial estate agents around...
Professional Property Investment Networking takes you to the next level BY KOOS DU TOIT
Property investment is such a simple, efficient system that the marketing and promotional efforts, such as networking, which are often crucial to business success, are not an essential element for property investors. Nevertheless, professional property investors join property investment organisations where they can network with likeminded people and enjoy a surprising number of benefits...
Discover PORTUGAL Beauty combined with great investments BY GARY KOCKOTT
Portugal, once considered the best-kept secret of the Iberian Peninsula, became an extremely popular tourist destination in the sixties, now drawing an average of 13 million visitors a year. Its Mediterranean climate, natural beauty and geographic diversity, along with its spectacular beach resorts and fantastic leisure opportunities, make Portugal a true vacation “hot spot”. Despite being a developed country and member of the EU, Portugal is also relatively inexpensive to visit when compared to other EU countries that offer a similar quality of holiday...
Have The Will To Succeed Anything is possible BY MONIQUE TERRAZAS
What keeps people from achieving the success, wealth, health and happiness they deserve? It is rarely a lack of a way. Rather, the key to success is to have the will to follow the way. As the old English proverb "Where there is a will, there is a way" reminds us, a person with will - or determination - will find the way to achieve anything...
