Maryna holds the BA, LLB, LLM degrees and is an Executive Consultant at the Cape Town branch of STBB. She is an admitted Attorney, Notary Public, Conveyancer and Insolvency Practitioner with many years of experience in the fields of property law, conveyancing and the laws relating to corporate compliance (especially in respect of the FICA and POPIA laws). Up until 2018 she was also head of the firm’s national marketing portfolio. She is a seasoned public speaker and presenter, both in person and online. She prepares text for the majority of STBB’s internal and external publications and is editor and co-writer for two pivotal publications in the South African real estate industry – the ABC of Conveyancing (JUTA) and Delport’s South African Property Law and Practice (JUTA).

Property Law Update | Issue 31 – 2017

PRE-EMPTIVE RIGHTS: ‘IN WRITING’ NO LONGER A REQUIREMENT?

Mokone v Tassos Properties CC and Another (CCT113/16, CCT291/16) [2017] ZACC 25; 2017 (10) BCLR 1261 (CC); 2017 (5) SA 456 (CC) (24 July 2017)

It has for long been a rule of our law that pre-emptive rights relating to the sale of immovable property must be in writing in order to be valid and binding. In finding in this matter that the granting of a pre-emptive right is not an ‘alienation’ and therefore needs not comply with the “in writing and signed” requirements of the Alienation of Land Act, new considerations sprout. Property owners should be wary of making verbal representations with regard to pre-emptive rights in respect of immovable property to avoid a scenario such as in the present matter where a subsequent transfer of a property to a third party is attacked, 18 months later, because of an oral lease granted to a previous tenant.

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The Judgment
Summary of the Judgment

 

STBB’S STSMA REFERENCE GUIDE

In this, the fortieth set of notes for your STSMA Reference Guide, Prescribed Management Rule 19 is discussed.

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Prescribed Management Rule 19
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