{"id":1857,"date":"2019-10-07T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T08:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2019-11-04T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T08:59:08","slug":"issue-13-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/issue-13-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Law Update | Issue 13 &#8211; 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>ORAL AGREEMENT: OPTION TO PURCHASE VS PRE-EMPTIVE RIGHT<\/h2>\n<h3>Kretzmann v Kretzmann and Another (2644\/2018) [2019] ZAECPEHC 54 (27 August 2019)<\/h3>\n<p>In 2017 the Constitutional Court declared that a pre-emptive right to purchase property need not be reduced to writing in order to be valid. This was because a right of pre-emption gives the holder thereof no right to claim transfer of land; it merely gives him a right to enter into an agreement of sale with the grantor, should the latter wish to sell. When such an agreement is completed then &#8211; and not before &#8211; will he have a right to claim transfer of land, and that it is the agreement which must be in writing. Could the same be said of an option to purchase? The Judgment can be viewed here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saflii.org\/za\/cases\/ZAECPEHC\/2019\/54.html\">The Judgment<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/wp-content\/uploads\/stbb_plu13-2019_s1.pdf\">Summary of the Judgment<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>TRANSFER ANNULLED AS SELLER WAS NOT INFORMED OF PURCHASER\u2019S CORRECT IDENTITY<\/h2>\n<h3>Uniting Presbyterian Church in SA and Another v Reformed Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa and Others (1438\/2018) [2019] ZASCA 129 (30 September 2019)<\/h3>\n<p>A church breakaway group bought a property from the City of Cape Town at a time when the latter was led to believe that the purchaser belonged to an existing congregation. The Court here annulled the agreement of sale as well as the subsequent transfer, holding that the conduct of the purchaser caused a material mistake (error in persona) and rendered the sale agreement null and void. The judgment is a valuable read, especially for illustrating that apart from an ostensibly valid sale agreement, there was no \u2018real agreement\u2019 or consensus to pass transfer and that this resulted in annulling registration of transfer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saflii.org\/za\/cases\/ZASCA\/2019\/129.html\">The Judgment<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/wp-content\/uploads\/stbb_plu13-2019_s2.pdf\">Summary of the Judgment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORAL AGREEMENT: OPTION TO PURCHASE VS PRE-EMPTIVE RIGHT Kretzmann v Kretzmann and Another (2644\/2018) [2019] ZAECPEHC 54 (27 August 2019) In 2017 the Constitutional Court declared that a pre-emptive right to purchase property need not be reduced to writing in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property-law-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Property Law Update | Issue 13 - 2019 - STBB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/issue-13-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Maryna Botha\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/issue-13-2019\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/issue-13-2019\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Maryna Botha\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/623606b2022560795816523a4fd0bfec\"},\"headline\":\"Property Law Update | Issue 13 &#8211; 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