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Power of attorney in property transfers explainedA seller is in the United Kingdom and the transfer has been sitting rea...
08/09/2026

Power of attorney in property transfers explained

A seller is in the United Kingdom and the transfer has been sitting ready for two weeks. Every document is prepared. The rates clearance is in. The compliance certificates are signed. The only thing missing is the seller's signature on the transfer deed, and the seller is 9 000 kilometres away with no immediate plans to return. Without the right signing authority in place, that file doesn't move, the buyer's occupation date passes without registration, and the costs of delay settle on everyone equally. The law has a clear answer for this situation, provided the document was prepared correctly before it was needed.
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Simultaneous registration in South African conveyancingThe bank has approved a bond. The conveyancer says everything is ...
06/09/2026

Simultaneous registration in South African conveyancing

The bank has approved a bond. The conveyancer says everything is ready. Three different attorneys have each prepared their own set of documents, and all three sets now have to arrive at the Deeds Office on the same morning and register in a fixed sequence, with none of them allowed to succeed if one fails. The buyer can't get a clean title deed without the seller's bond cancellation going through. The bank won't release funds until its new bond is registered. And if any one piece is missing, the whole file sits, unchanged, until the problem is fixed. That is the mechanism at work, and it runs every ordinary residential transfer in South Africa.
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Lodgement in the deeds office: what happens on the dayA Cape Town buyer had been waiting six weeks for the call. The bon...
04/09/2026

Lodgement in the deeds office: what happens on the day

A Cape Town buyer had been waiting six weeks for the call. The bond was approved, the rates clearance was in, and the compliance certificates were signed. The attorney finally confirmed the documents had been lodged at the deeds office. What that buyer hadn't been told was that lodgement isn't the end of the process. It's the beginning of the next one, and what happens inside the deeds office on and after that day determines whether a transfer registers on time or stalls.
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Endorsements on title deeds and what they signalA Johannesburg landlord renewed his rental agreement and filed the paper...
02/09/2026

Endorsements on title deeds and what they signal

A Johannesburg landlord renewed his rental agreement and filed the paperwork. His title deed sat in a bank vault. Three changes had been recorded on it since he took transfer: a bond registered by his lender, a marital regime notation from a post-nuptial agreement, and an interdiction issued during a dispute he considered settled. None of those entries had been formally released. A property can carry several endorsements by the time it changes hands again, and the owner may be unaware of any of them.
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Servitudes in South African property law explainedA Cape Town buyer found the house, agreed on the price, and signed the...
31/08/2026

Servitudes in South African property law explained

A Cape Town buyer found the house, agreed on the price, and signed the offer. The conveyancer ran a title deed search and mentioned a servitude. The agent moved past it quickly. What the buyer had been told, without anyone stopping to explain it, was that a third party held a registered legal right over the land being purchased, and that right would bind the new owner the moment transfer registered. That's not a formality. That's a condition someone will live with for as long as they own the property.
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Notarial bonds and their role in property lawA Cape Town manufacturer signed a lending agreement and handed nothing over...
29/08/2026

Notarial bonds and their role in property law

A Cape Town manufacturer signed a lending agreement and handed nothing over. The lender took a registered bond over three production machines by serial number, advanced the funds, and left the borrower running the factory floor. Six months later the borrower defaulted. The lender recovered the machines. A second creditor, whose informal security arrangement was never registered, recovered nothing.
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Conditions of title: what they mean for property ownersA Johannesburg couple bought a double stand in a quiet suburb, pl...
27/08/2026

Conditions of title: what they mean for property owners

A Johannesburg couple bought a double stand in a quiet suburb, planning to build a second dwelling for an elderly parent. The contractor had already been briefed. The architect had drawn plans. When the conveyancer searched the title deed, a single-dwelling condition registered at township proclamation stopped the project entirely. The condition had been on the deed since the suburb was laid out. Neither the seller nor the agent had flagged it. It had travelled to the new owners at transfer automatically, without a separate signature and without anyone handing them a summary.
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The title deed: what it is and what it provesYou signed the offer, paid the transfer costs, and waited three months for ...
25/08/2026

The title deed: what it is and what it proves

You signed the offer, paid the transfer costs, and waited three months for the process to complete. When the attorney called to say registration had happened, you asked for the deed. What arrived, if anything arrived at all, was either a photocopy or nothing, and nobody explained where the original document had gone or what it said. It is the one document settling ownership in South African law, and most property owners have never read it.
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The legal effect of registration of title in South Africa.The purchase price is paid and the keys are in hand. From wher...
23/08/2026

The legal effect of registration of title in South Africa.
The purchase price is paid and the keys are in hand. From where the buyer stands, the property is theirs. What the law says is a different matter entirely, and the gap between possession and legal ownership has undone more than one buyer who assumed the two were the same thing. South African law is precise on this point: property doesn't change hands when the seller signs, when the bank approves the bond, or when the keys are collected. It changes hands the moment the Deeds Office registers the deed, and not a second before.
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The Deeds Office examination process explained.Your conveyancer tells you the documents have been lodged, and you pictur...
21/08/2026

The Deeds Office examination process explained.
Your conveyancer tells you the documents have been lodged, and you picture a short wait before the title deed is yours. What you don't see is the examining room behind the counter, where a trained official is working through every page of your file looking for anything that doesn't match the register, the legislation, or the previous deed. One discrepancy in a single document stops not your transfer alone but every other deed lodged alongside it on the same day, because they travel and wait together. That dependency is the part nobody explains at signing.
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