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This edition includes: Approving additional water heating systems on common property; dipping into the reserve fund; video surveillance; and can a member refuse to use the biometrics access control system?
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This edition includes: The validity of non-owners serving on the board of trustees in sectional title schemes; photographing residents who are contravening the conduct rules; and reporting a flawed CSOS order.
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This edition includes: Paddocks has downsized and re-invented itself as an exclusively online business; safety around swimming pools; and can bodies corporate withhold levy clearance certificate for levies due on another unit?
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This edition includes: Graham's semi-retirement announcement; CSOS: A brief analysis of the first five Western Cape CSOS orders; and why Covid-19 is not an excuse to delay an Annual General Meeting.
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In this edition: "Knowledge Maps" setting out the basics of the Sectional Titles Schemes Management Act, it's Regulations and the Prescribed Management and Conduct rules; tenants being nominated as trustees; and can the CSOS adjudicate parking disputes?
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This week on Property24.com: How long properties are taking to sell; body corporate property maintenance; SONA 2021 - Key factors for SA's real estate sector; and is office property market set to be the weakest in 2021?
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In Body Corporate of Nautica v Mispha CC [2022] 1 All SA 399 (WCC), defendant refused to pay levies without justification, Body Corporate has locus standi to institute action, in duplum rule permits interest to run anew from the date that the judgment debt is due and payable.
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In Heathrow Property Holdings No 3 CC and Others v Manhattan Place Body Corporate and Others [2021] 3 All SA 527 (WCC), the Community Schemes Ombud Services is the primary forum for adjudicating body corporate disputes, not the High Court which is intended to be a secondary, supervisory forum.