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Should you use your home equity to pay off debt with a higher interest rate?
South Africans have been dipping into their retirement funds, thanks to the two-pot retirement system - and in that same vane - should you consider tapping into your home loan equity?
South Africans between the age of 36 to 49 years dominate the residential market
If you are in your late twenties and early thirties and are feeling the pressure to buy your first home, you can breathe a sigh of relief. You are not falling behind.
What is the cut-off age for securing a home loan? Experts weigh-in
Homeownership can be significantly impacted by age, as it affects your ability to secure a home loan, but it can be done.
Use these tips to make your electricity budget stretch during these tough times
Households that are feeling the squeeze will have to find inventive ways to help make their budgets stretch further.
Possible unchanged interest rates could mean trouble for SA consumers
The Monetary Policy Committee is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, but what impact will that have on the SA consumers?
Mzansi homeowners could spend 60% more on electricity this winter
South Africans should batten down the hatches and prepare to pay more for electricity this winter.
Independent women are dominating the SA housing market
It looks like women are leading in purchasing power when it comes to the SA property market.
Consumers brace for prolonged squeeze amid delayed anticipation of rate cuts
According to Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago, it is possible that inflation will only drop to 4. 5% by the end of 2025.
Three ways you can finance your home in 2024
With planning, financing your home does not have to be stressful.
Flying high: 44-year-old becomes SA’s first black air balloon pilot
After not being able to fulfil his initial desire to be a Chartered Accountant, this man fought through challenges and hurdles to eventually realise his true dream.
Experts predict SARB repo rate hike, speculate on effect on property markets
Economists, academics and property specialists forecast that the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on Thursday is set to increase the repo rate.
Home bond repayments could soar with interest rate hike
Repayments on a R1-million home loan taken over 20 years is expected to grow by over R1 000 if the interest rate were to reach pre-pandemic levels of around 10%.
Student accommodation no longer in high demand in the property markets
Kevin Jacobs, the Broker of RE/MAX Cape Town in the Southern Suburbs, said the student accommodation market took a big hit with the pandemic.
Property market set for a strong 2022
Interest rate increases will not have a huge impact on home buying activity next year
Township RDP house prices more than doubled after hard lockdown - agent
The township property market has had pockets of hope since Covid-19 hit our shores.
Repo rate unchanged. . . a cut would have been better -property experts
’Prudent’ and ’accommodative’ are among the terms property players have used in response to the Monetary Policy Committee announcement that interest rates will remain unchanged.
Tough times continue for the property rental market
Landlords and agents struggle in the sector, thanks to the affects of Covid-19, with many former tenants opting to buy property.
Can you afford NOT to buy property now?
Record-low interest rates have been spurring first-time home buying around the country.