By Neale Petersen on Tuesday, March 9, 2010
This is your chance to enter Real Estate Investor Magazine “write in and win” competition and win a Cashflow 202 board game. It should be a positive or negative experience you have had while investing in property, including great lessons you have learnt and could teach others. Please send your investment tale in no more [...]
By Scott Picken on Monday, March 1, 2010
There are significant concerns about the USA economy and also the USA property market, but in amongst all this turmoil are also some fantastic opportunities. As with any overseas investment, an investor two most vital things are Information and Partners. What Scott Picken, IPS CEO, has tried to do here, is give you an overview [...]
By Justin Clarke on Tuesday, February 23, 2010
We are a nation with huge resources and great diversity, our business people excel overseas, not just MTN, SASOL, BIDVEST and SAB Miller but many others. Even our past political leaders like Nelson Mandela and Jan Smuts, are world moral authorities. We have some of the top rated sports teams on the planet and [...]
By Scott Picken on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Dear Potential Offshore Investor
Napoleon said, “Information was nine tenths of any battle.” The challenge is do you have the right information, are you choosing the right partners, making the right investments and most importantly asking the right questions?
1. Information – like water, the right information makes you finically healthier, but the wrong information is like [...]
By Neale Petersen on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
A recent headline article published in the latest Financial Mail written by Ian Fife called “The big property clean-out” is causing ructions in the residential investment sector. The article identifies a number of property companies, trusts and individuals who were casualties in the current property market. Included in the article on-going court case of the [...]
By Scott Picken on Friday, February 5, 2010
Dear Property Investor
After my 3 week trip to USA and the UK, I have some fascinating information to share about what is happening in those markets, where they are going and how they are going to effect the South African market and international markets.
There is so much to go into about and I will be [...]
By Justin Clarke on Monday, February 1, 2010
The beginning of a new year is a time to plan and to think about how we are going to look after our cash and build wealth and security. In this decade many ordinary people have become extremely rich from the appreciation in the value of their homes and investment properties. Even considering the recent [...]
By Brennan Carey on Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Let me tell you a bit about us… we are private investor property buyers in the Durban KZN area and we focus on buying residential investment properties privately thus avoiding working with estate agents.
Online websites like www.privateproperty.co.za are an excellent resource for those wanting to sell their property privately and is one that we as [...]
By Jaco De Wet on Friday, October 30, 2009
For some time now, we at Private Property have been quite interested to know what people are thinking, saying about us. At the same time, the brilliant people from Columinate approached us to do an online survey. Of course, we jumped at the opportunity and a couple of weeks later, the brainiacs from Columinate crunched [...]
By Brennan Carey on Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Many sellers and estate agents are asking themselves when will the property market start improving or at least get better ?
The reality is the demand for property at the moment is currently very low, and if there are no buyers and a large supply of homes for sale, prices will only decline. Thats what we [...]
