Gert Minnaar

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Profile: Gert is a specialist Conveyancer based at our Illovo branch. He worked at the Pretoria Deeds Office from 1985 until 1989 and after becoming a Senior Examiner left to qualify as an Attorney and Conveyancer in 1992. As manager of our Gauteng Development Law Unit Gert focuses on the establishment of townships and all the conveyancing work required to initiate and complete developments, whether it may be an upmarket sectional title, cluster or housing development. He enjoys finding practical solutions to complicated conveyancing problems. Gert serves on the committee of the South African Affordable Residential Developers Association (SAARDA), a body representing the interests of developers and other stakeholders in the affordable housing development sector which necessitates regular collaboration with government and municipal officials.

The disposal of the stands by co-township owners in the same township

The registration of the portion of the township into the name of the new township co-owner. When a portion of a township is sold and transferred into the name of the purchaser, the township suddenly has two township owners, firstly

The Deeds Office records for a portion of a township transferred to a new township owner

The sale of a portion of a proclaimed township is not a common occurrence The sale of a portion of a proclaimed township in terms of Section 47 of the Deeds Registries Act is not a common occurrence. Conveyancers, Deeds

The impact of mineral rights on township establishment

The owner of land, in terms of our common law, is also the owner of everything below the surface of the land, which will then include the minerals on and below the surface of the land. Nevertheless, the landowner’s right

Municipal planning by-laws come with provincial and national restrictions

The transfer and registration of property at the Deeds Office. When a person sells his or her house the seller and purchaser reduce their agreement to writing. The same principle applies when a developer sells a stand and enters into

The impact of Eskom servitudes on the layout of a proposed township

The title deed for a piece of land on which the owner thereof plans to establish a township lists all the title conditions to which the land is subject and entitled to. If there are no title conditions noted against

The legal status of a township with more than 1 township applicant

There are a number of townships, with two or more township applicants, which have been legally approved by the powers that be with formal conditions of establishment and with General Plans approved by the Surveyor-General for which the Registrar of

The sale and transfer of the whole, portion or remainder of a township

When a township applicant completes the township establishment process until the township is declared an approved township, he can finally reap the richly deserved reward for this strenuous effort by marketing and selling the stands in this township which then

Cancellation of title conditions imposed in terms of the Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Act

The Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Act 21 of 1940 (1940 Act) impose certain title conditions that are sometimes encountered in the title deeds for land or abutting on or close to a provincial road, on which a township

The dreaded Department of Agriculture letter for the opening of a township register

One of the final hurdles a township developer in the Gauteng and North-West Provinces must negotiate before the stands in a township become registrable, is the opening of the township register at the Deeds Office in Pretoria in terms of

Message from the Department of Human Settlements

Claims of selling RDP houses illegally is a major concern for Government, According to the Housing Amendment Act of 2001, a beneficiary is prohibited from selling an RDP house within eight years of it being handed to them. Read more

The disposal of the stands by co-township owners in the same township

The Deeds Office records for a portion of a township transferred to a new township owner

The impact of mineral rights on township establishment

Municipal planning by-laws come with provincial and national restrictions

The impact of Eskom servitudes on the layout of a proposed township

The legal status of a township with more than 1 township applicant

The sale and transfer of the whole, portion or remainder of a township

Cancellation of title conditions imposed in terms of the Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Act

The dreaded Department of Agriculture letter for the opening of a township register

Message from the Department of Human Settlements

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