Property and real estate
Areas of expertise
Although our team of specialists can assist with any type of property transaction, we have specific expertise in the following areas:
- Transfers of ownership including freehold, sectional title, leasehold, fractional/leisure ownership; syndication, deceased estates, divorces, donations, expropriations, rectifications, exchanges, subdivisions, consolidations and partitions
- Negotiation, drafting and supervision of all property related work including options, lease agreements, building contracts, development agreements, shareholders and joint venture agreements
- Commercial property transactions
- New developments – commercial; industrial and residential including project planning, management and implementation strategies and advice on development vehicles
- Change of ownership in property holding legal entities
- Personal and praedial servitudes registered against immovable property
- Property commercial structuring including company mergers and acquisitions and internal restructurings
- Due diligences
- Taxation advice
- Property finance including commercial and home loan bonds
- General and special notarial bonds
- Environmental law
- Mining, particularly conversion of exiting rights into new order rights, and applications for new order rights
- Leases
- Collections
- Evictions
