By Helen Grange hgrange@mweb.co.za   When you’re hunting for a property, it’s important to ask the right questions, and one of them should be: ‘is

What rights does a landlord have if a tenant cancels the residential lease, before it ends? The tenant has the right to cancel the lease

A client, who lives in a double-story sectional title complex, asked me: “My neighbour above me has a water leak in his bathroom. Water has

Is your sectional title complex looking a bit tired? Maintenance The trustees of your body corporate need to maintain the complex (to keep it more

Can you please assist on tenants’ rights in terms of fines being issued by the Body Corporate? I am able to give you a brief

Q Please can you kindly advise me on how I can challenge the body corporate to stop the process of disconnecting electricity. The electricity at

A client asked me: “If a tenant is forced to live in intolerable conditions and is forced to move, is it the tenant’s right to

The relationship between a landlord and tenant is governed by the Rental Housing Act, 1999 (Act No. 50 of 1999), which provides that: A lease

If you are a first-time homebuyer, did you know that you may qualify for a subsidy to buy your first home and save thousands over