A conveyancer has asked if it is fraud to artificially increase the purchase price of a property to include transfer and bond registration costs?

Allen West submits that one cannot register a habitatio without the procurement of a diagram of that portion of the land on which the dwelling is erected.

This week's round-up of property24.com/ stories includes: how estate agents' commission works, E-media a key tool for property, and homes get smarter.

The South African property industry is both ready for and moving towards an interlinked digital future as Internet penetration grows and collaboration increases.

This week: Absa's Second Quarter Housing Review, FNB's Commercial Property Barometer, the affordable housing sector needs help, and show days still matter.

Allen West submits that the notion that boundaries of a real right of extension, when exercised must remain within the "foot print" of such right is totally wrong.