{"id":3866,"date":"2017-10-12T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T13:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2019-11-13T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:44:58","slug":"property-law-update-issue-30-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/property-law-update-issue-30-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Law Update | Issue 30 – 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

TITLE DEED CONDITIONS OBLIGING AN OWNER TO BUILD<\/h2>\n

Bondev Midrand (Pty) Limited v Puling and Another, Bondev Midrand (Pty) Limited v Ramokgopa (802\/2016, 803\/2016) [2017] ZASCA 141 (2 October 2017)<\/h3>\n

Developers often insert a provision in a purchaser\u2019s title deed obliging him to build a home on the vacant erf within a certain time. There are various sound reasons for doing so, amongst others, to bolster purchasers\u2019 investment in the development and limit the security risks sometimes associated with continuous building activities in a development. Failure to do so, gives the developer the right to repurchase the vacant stand, usually at the initial sale price. Is this a personal right on the side of the developer meaning that it prescribed if not exercised within 3 years after an owner has failed to erect a home?<\/p>\n

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\nThe Judgment<\/span><\/a>
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STBB’S STSMA REFERENCE GUIDE<\/h2>\n

In this, the thirty-ninth set of notes for your STSMA Reference Guide, Prescribed Management Rule 18 is discussed.<\/p>\n

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