Jul 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Extensions to units in a sectional title scheme that owners effect “informally” may have dire consequences. The Sectional Titles Act (1986) (“the Act”) defines an extension as any variation that has the effect of “extending the boundaries or floor area of the...
Jun 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
The practice of many estates and community schemes to regulate estate agents, (presently property practitioners) regarding their rights to market within the estate or scheme, has been addressed in the Regulations promulgated in terms of the Property Practitioners Act,...
Jun 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Community schemes are residential communities that are either sectional title schemes, full title schemes (estates), gated communities, time-share or share blocks. Whatever the legal nature of any scheme, they all have one thing in common – shared spaces and shared...
Jun 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Pietermaritzburg High Court heard a matter in which trustees of a body corporate negotiated a discount of levies due by a defaulting owner – Zikalala v Body Corporate of Selma Court and another [2021] JOL 51087 (KZP). The court held, per Chetty J, that even...
Jun 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
This question arose in the matter of Body Corporate of Balboa Park v Skeyi and another [2024] JOL 64125 (GJ) and related matters that was recently decided in the Johannesburg High Court. The body corporates of “Balboa” and “Peppertree” sought orders in terms of...
