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Watch out for the 3 i’s – inflation, interest rates and investment

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Like most fairy tales, the big bad wolf eventually gets his way and gets into the bedroom and puts on Grandma’s pyjamas to entice Little Red Riding Hood to within striking distance. Inflation…the 900 pound gorilla in the economy is seen to be bumping up against the upper level of the Reserve Banks target of [...]

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One mans meat is another mans poison

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Here come the tolls on Gautengs major highways. They are the latest invention by the government to extract money from taxpayers, this time on the spurious argument that the user must pay. Well we have been paying…R 25 billion a year in fuel levy charges alone. How does this new tax affect the property world..lets [...]

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Buying on Auction – Good Idea or Not?

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

I think this is my most asked question these days what with the reported “bargains” abounding.
Are they real?
I attended the FNB Auction held on Saturday morning at their “spaceship” building in Fairlands. At the advertised 9am start , there were only 12 people in the room and I wondered if there was going to be [...]

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