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Cox Yeats has been honoured in the 17th edition of the Best Lawyers in South Africa, with lawyers from across its national offices recognised for their outstanding expertise. This achievement highlights the firm’s depth of specialist expertise and its ongoing commitment to delivering high-calibre legal counsel across key practice areas. It also underscores the professional […]
Cox Yeats is honoured to announce that 18 of our lawyers have been included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in South Africa™. This prestigious recognition underscores our firm’s dedication to legal excellence, positioning our experts among the most trusted and respected in the industry. For us, this honour reaffirms our commitment to delivering client-centred solutions […]
Over the past couple of decades, the number of secure estates in South Africa, both residential and commercial/ industrial, have increased exponentially. This has been largely driven by security concerns because of the escalating crime rate in the country. Each estate is administered by an owners' association, which is either established as a non-profit company, […]
It is not uncommon for a property to be subject to a servitude in favour of a neighbouring property. A servitude can take a number of forms, amongst others, a right of way servitude giving the holder of the servitude the right to cross the other property or a pipeline servitude giving the holder of […]
Acquiring a property gives rise to a number of costs. These include, amongst others, transfer duty or value added tax payable to the South African Revenue Services, conveyancing fees payable to the transferring attorneys, deeds office registration fees payable to the deeds office, advance payments of rates due to the municipality and levies due to […]
Brettenwood Coastal Estate was established in 2004, during the boom times of the property market in South Africa. The Estate endured the slump in the property market from 2009 onwards. The past few years have seen the introduction of the dynamic and energetic Home & Country Property sales team and, with a slight upswing in […]
Most people are of the view that once a transfer is registered in the Deeds Office, they are guaranteed ownership of the property. South Africa has an abstract system of transfer of immovable property rather than a causal system. In a causal system, there has to be a valid underlying cause giving rise to the […]
Transfers of properties are sometimes delayed as a result of a party failing to do something that party is obliged to do in terms of the sale agreement. Most often the delays are caused by the buyer. Property sale agreements generally have a mora clause which is intended to prevent the buyer from delaying the […]
When a dispute arises between an owner and the Body Corporate in a sectional title scheme, there is often a debate whether the parties are obliged to refer the dispute to arbitration or whether they can approach the courts for relief. The debate arises due to the wording of Management Rule 71, prescribed in terms […]
