{"id":2164,"date":"2018-11-02T11:49:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T09:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2019-11-05T05:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T03:09:37","slug":"issue-17-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/issue-17-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Law Update | Issue 17 \u2013 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

TITLE DEED CONDITION ALLOWING RE-TRANSFER OF PROPERTY IF OWNER DOES NOT BUILD ON TIME: CAN THIS REVERSIONARY RIGHT PRESCRIBE?<\/h2>\n

eThekwini Municipality v Mounthaven (Pty) Ltd (CCT 05\/18) [2018] ZACC 43 (31 October 2018))<\/h3>\n

Municipalities regularly sell vacant property to developers for commercial and residential development. Often a title deed condition is imposed that the property must be improved within a certain time period and, if this is not done, then the municipality may claim re-transfer of the property back to itself. This reversionary right, the Constitutional Court confirmed here, is a personal right which is susceptible to prescription after three years.<\/p>\n

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TITLE DEED CONDITION ALLOWING RE-TRANSFER OF PROPERTY IF OWNER DOES NOT BUILD ON TIME: CAN THIS REVERSIONARY RIGHT PRESCRIBE? eThekwini Municipality v Mounthaven (Pty) Ltd (CCT 05\/18) [2018] ZACC 43 (31 October 2018)) Municipalities regularly sell vacant property to developers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":2934,"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-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property-law-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nProperty Law Update | Issue 17 \u2013 2018 - 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