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Wanting to be the best that you can be requires more than just desire. Talk-show hosts and movie stars love clichés like “Believe in yourself”, “Reach for the stars”, “If you can dream it, you can have it” and other similar drivel.
Having just travelled the length and [...]

‘Know your Game’ seminar arms property professionals with insights and ideas that will increase sales
The South African Property Transfer Guide (SAPTG) in association with industry partners is currently hosting a free nationwide training seminar for property professionals entitled ‘Know your Game’. Designed to offer industry-specific information that can be used to strengthen the real estate [...]

‘Know your Game’ seminar arms property professionals with insights and ideas that will increase sales
The South African Property Transfer Guide (SAPTG) in association with industry partners is currently hosting a free nationwide training seminar for property professionals entitled ‘Know your Game’. Designed to offer industry-specific information that can be used to strengthen the real estate [...]

With the World Cup looming and plenty of post-budget positive sentiment flowing, Dieter Deppisch, head of Property Data Research at the South African Property Transfer Guide (SAPTG), assesses three trends that will significantly impact the property market this year and their implications for buyers and sellers.
1. House prices will rise, albeit modestly
Our SAPTG data suggests [...]

A recently announced partnership will strengthen the real estate industry by giving it ‘one voice’, say representatives from SAPTG and IEASA.
The most comprehensive source of property market data, the South African Property Transfer Guide (SAPTG) and the Institute of Estate Agents of South Africa (IEASA) recently announced their partnership. By bringing together the leading online [...]

New SMS service makes instant property valuations convenient and affordable
Staying one step ahead in the property game is now easier for all South Africans with the launch of Evaluate, South Africa’s first mobile property valuation service that provides instant property value estimates to any cell phone via SMS.
A fraction of the price of a traditional [...]

New partnership between Knowledge Factory and MapIT enables marketers to keep pace with our rapidly changing urban landscape and analyse opportunities available in all areas, including informal urban and suburban developments

In 2008, it was legislated that all Estate Agents need to be qualified against the FETC: Real Estate, SAQA ID 59097, NQF 4. To qualify, Estate Agents need to acquire a total of 150 credits.

As its name suggests, geo-demographics is the correlating of demographic data — information about the population segmented by factors like age, sex or income — with concise geographic data. ’Physically locating’ demographic information through this technique allows it to be represented visually and analysed from a spatial perspective.

Geographic Business Intelligence — the merger of BI and GIS — is currently experiencing a dramatic upsurge in popularity worldwide. Knowledge Factory’s Chief Technical Officer, Peter Oeschger, looks at the significant advantages it offers and some of the main challenges firms face trying to get it right.