Iconic Umhlanga pier not living up to expectations
Members of the Urban Improvement Precinct (UIP) of Umhlanga voiced their concern at the state of the iconic Umhlanga Pier. The pier, which has won two prestigious design awards, has been without illumination at night since shortly after the 2010 World Cup. [Read More]
Pretoria student housing complex built illegally
Pretoria's student housing crisis is escalating after allegations that one of the latest private student residential developments in Pretoria Gardens has been built illegally. [Read More]
German artists get Joburgers talking about their pavements
Residents in Joburg's northern suburbs, it seems, just don't like walking.[Read More]
Questions over property rates for Cape Town sectional title garages
Where the registered owner of residential and garage sections are one and the same, the residential tariff will be applied to all such sections, although the garage section is classified as non-rebated.[Read More]
Neighbours fed up with Durban's derelict properties
The Sunday Tribune's City Watch column is receiving an increasing number of complaints from home and business owners who are fed up at the non-progress of city entities in prosecuting absentee owners who allow their buildings to fall into disrepair, with scant regard for the consequences to others. [Read More]
Alert as new scam defrauds property sellers
Law firms across South Africa are on high alert about a new scam, which has seen house sellers conned out of their profits to the tune of hundreds of thousands of rand. [Read More]
Joburg's potholed roads have become a hazard
The potholes in Waybury Road, Bryanston are so bad that one resident had to replace her tyres three times within a year. [Read More]
Municipal property valuations under fire
Although property rates are a critical component of municipal revenue bases there's a growing tendency by municipal valuers to undervalue properties - sometimes by as much as 70 percent.[Read More]
Residential property stock tightens while sellers cut prices, wait longer
Signals in the residential property market about a recovery are mixed. [Read More]
New plan for Durban beach restaurants
After almost three years and thousands of rand down the drain, the eThekwini Municipality has admitted it bungled the job of attracting tenants to its vacant beachfront restaurants and has adopted a new approach. [Read More]
West Coast property development 'will become a slum'
The proposed R140 billion Wescape development the city has supported has come under severe criticism - and been called a "new apartheid city". [Read More]
Joburg property owners facing stiff tariff increases
Joburg residents should brace themselves for stiff municipal tariff increases from July 1 - especially those in the higher end of the market and those using a lot of water and electricity. [Read More]
