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Kwame Osei
Africa research editor
I edit South Africa and nothing else: transfer duty, the conveyancing sequence and Deeds Office registration.
Rates clearance from the municipality and an electrical compliance certificate both have to be in hand before the conveyancer can lodge at the Deeds Office, and that work runs alongside the buyer’s bond approval, not after it. Registration takes a few weeks from lodgement, longer if the municipality’s rates figure is disputed. I check the transfer duty brackets after each budget.
A little more about Kwame
Johannesburg. Twenty-two years around property transfer.
Areas of focus
- South Africa only, not the continent
- The transfer sequence end to end, from conveyancer instruction to Deeds Office registration, with transfer duty and capital-gains figures from SARS and the deeds registry
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