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RE/MAX OF SOUTHERN AFRICA TURNS 25 IN 2020
The RE/MAX of Southern Africa network is getting revved up for their bi-annual RE/MAX Sun City Convention, to be held on 19-21 February 2020. Doubling as the celebration of the brand’s 25th birthday in the region, this year’s event promises to be bigger and better than ever before! “With over 2,400 agents operating through 160 offices registered in 10 different regions across
Read moreARE ESTATE AGENTS STILL RELEVANT
With more and more online real estate agencies popping up both locally and internationally, the question on everybody’s lips is whether the real estate profession will go the way of the milkman. However, unlike milk, property is not something you can simply throw down the drain if your purchase happens to turn sour. To decide whether traditional real estate agents are still relevant, you
Read moreFEMALES DOMINATING THE PROPERTY MARKET
It seems crazy to think that females, who were once excluded from the right to own property, are now the largest group of property buyers in South Africa. According to Lightstone Property statistics, roughly 72,000 residential properties were purchased by single women in South Africa last year, far surpassing the number of homes sold to men (around 62,000) and married couples (around 65,000). &
Read moreRE/MAX THE FORERUNNER FOR GENDER EQUALITY IN REAL ESTATE
Given that so many real estate professionals are female these days, it can be easy to forget that, much like most other industries of the day, the real estate industry was once a ‘boys only’ club. In fact, RE/MAX was considered incredibly progressive back when Dave Liniger first started the brand in Denver, Colorado in 1973, with three of his four first-ever recruits being female. T
Read moreADVICE FROM OUR TOP AGENTS
This Women’s Month, in the hopes of encouraging and inspiring other young women in their journey towards success, the top female earners within the RE/MAX of Southern Africa network offer their unfiltered advice on what it takes to be successful both in life and within the real estate industry. As the only recipient of the Luminary of Distinction – awarded to those who have be
Read moreMPC ANNOUNCES GREAT NEWS FOR HOUSING MARKET: INTEREST RATES LOWERED
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) announced today that interest rates will be lowered by 25 basis points. The prime lending rate therefore changes to 10% and the repo rate drops to 6.5%. “With a 3.2% decline in our GDP for the first quarter of 2019 and with inflation being contained within the mid-point of the MPC’s target range, there really could not have been a more opportune t
Read moreRE/MAX NATIONAL HOUSING REPORT Q2 2019
Signs of an Increasingly Active Property Market The overall sentiment of current market conditions is, well, slow at best. However, the data for the second quarter of 2019 provides the first glimmers of hope for a property market that is becoming increasingly active. According to Lightstone Property data, a total of 45,109 bond registrations were recorded at the Deeds Office over the period
Read moreWHAT THE RE/MAX BRAND STANDS FOR
Curious to know how the RE/MAX brand was able to develop into the world’s largest real estate franchise? Apart from our unique entrepreneurial business model that allows real estate professionals to join as independent contractors and our 100% commission offering, RE/MAX has developed our own corporate formula to portray what our brand stands for and to signify the sorts of people we would l
Read moreWILL THE RESIDENTIAL MARKET SURVIVE THE NEGATIVE ECONOMY
The state of the South African economy does not bode well for the property market. On Tuesday 04 June 2019, Stats SA announced a 3.2 percent decline in GDP for the first three months of the year, which is the largest quarterly drop in a decade. The questions is, will the housing market survive this downturn? According to Adrian Goslett, Regional Director and CEO of RE/MAX of Southern Afri
Read moreARE REAL ESTATE AGENT COMMISSIONS TOO HIGH?
When choosing a doctor to perform open-heart surgery on you, how do you go about choosing the doctor? What if the cheapest option explained that their reason for being affordable is that you will need to do most of the procedure yourself – much like some low-cost real estate operators do. They will provide you with all the tools and equipment you need, as well as a video tutorial, but will n
Read more3 WAYS TO GIVE BACK WITHOUT SPENDING MONEY
Winter is by far the hardest season for a large portion of our population who are living on the bread line and without a solid roof over their heads. According to Stats SA’s General Household Survey report for 2017, 10,4% of households were vulnerable to hunger in 2017 and almost 20% of the population were living outside of the formal housing sector. As a way of giving back this Winter, R
Read more3 REAL ESTATE TERMS SELLERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND
While words like voetstoots and CMA make perfect sense in the mind of a real estate professional, to the average Joe, they make about as much sense as algebra to a six-year-old. Below is a brief glossary to help you understand the important real estate terms involved in the selling your home: 1. Comparative market analysis (CMA) A comparative market analysis is a report that qualified real
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