Real Estate has been a mainstay of Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr's
practice for more than 150 years. Our real estate practice team is known for
consistently offering our corporate and private clients incisive and practical
legal expertise.
Our clients benefit from our significant experience in
coordinating complex projects across the full spectrum of real estate related
transactions. These transactions range from listing property funds and
sectional title regulation to residential conveyancing and franchising, from
commercial and industrial issues to all forms of land tenure and rights to
land.
We work in all property sectors. Our clients include developers,
financiers, government bodies and the public sector, construction companies,
investors, and corporate occupiers.
The Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr real estate team has many years of
experience relating to all aspects of residential conveyancing and the
negotiation of mortgage bonds as security for home loans.
We have advised financial institutions on both structuring of
home loan products, systems and processes relating thereto as well as all
security and home loan related standard documentation.
We have considerable expertise and experience in the application
of the National Credit Act, 2005, in so far as it applies to home loans and
other credit transactions. Apart from representing many corporate clients,
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr also advises high worth individuals who make use of
sophisticated financial structuring and banking facilities.
Our real estate team has considerable experience with servitudes
and can advise on all servitude (or other) encroachment issues.
Our attorneys and notaries provide a full range of services from
the acquisition of property through to project development and implementation.
Our services include advice on, and structuring:
- purchase and sale agreements
- development schemes
- township establishment
- opening of sectional title registers
- sectional title arbitrations
- joint ventures
Other services offered include:
- negotiation and drafting of specialist agreements
- value-added tax
- transfer and stamp duty
- revenue issues
- group restructuring and schemes of rationalization
- security audits and due diligence exercises
- dispute resolution and arbitration
- property finance, structured and mortgage finance
- housing scheme structures, including employee schemes
- asset management and agency agreements
