The Department of Energy has introduced more measures that will incentivise companies to watch their electricity consumption.

SOUTH Africa has renegotiated its double tax agreement with Mauritius following earlier concerns by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and the Treasury that South African multinational were abusing the current treaty negotiated in 1996.

Johannesburg ‘s inner-city is continually in the news as a place to invest in property despite the crime and grime factors at play, the City claims to have attracted R9billion in investment into the restoration of derelict buildings. 

According to Jason Lee of Rawson Commercial, installment sale agreement provide a viable solution to sellers  who, because they are in financial difficulties, or for other reasons, enable them to dispose of a property that might otherwise not find a buyer in today’s market. 

Time is running out to make use of the tax -friendly window period introduced by SARS in 2010. 

Delta Property Fund, a R2,1 billion property group and predominantly government-tenanted BEE company is to list on the JSE. The listing, scheduled for early next month, will follow a Nedbank Capital-led capital-raising exercise of R980 million. 

As certain as death and taxes, there is another inevitable fact of property life - the assessment of property expenses (operating costs) identified by buyers and sellers, which by exception and rare circumstance, will be the same

Conveyancing attorneys play a vital role in the registration of every property transfer or bond, but their role is often misunderstood

Body Corporates at sectional title schemes in South have been given some welcome tax relief through the Taxation Laws Amendment Act, which was promulgated by SARS in July of last year

SA is soon to follow the international trend whereby property loan stock companies and property unit trusts will be structured as real estate investment trusts (the REIT model), with final legislation hopefully in place next year.