Coetzenburg Real Estate

Real estate in Stellenbosch involves paperwork most people never expected: FICA compliance checks, bond origination with specific lending criteria for rural and estate properties, sectional title schemes with levies that vary wildly depending on the complex, and title deed searches that sometimes unearth restrictions dating back decades. The Property Practitioners Act requires agents to understand freehold versus sectional title implications, especially in estates where common property rules affect what you can build or modify. Transfer duties, rates clearance certificates, and survey requirements differ depending on whether a property sits on municipal land or within an estate. Local agents track how municipal zoning affects agricultural land adjacent to town, and whether a property's water rights—critical in the Western Cape—are registered separately from the dwelling itself.