Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa February 2014 | Page 28

GETTING STARTED

BY ANGIE REDMOND

Buying A House Before
It’s Been Developed
Know how to navigate before you say yes

you two months in advance of any delivery
date changes. One of the big pros about buying
in the pre-construction phase is that once you
have signed on the dotted line, even if the price
goes up on the other houses, you have locked
on at a lower price.

How to get the most for your money
If you are going to buy a small home and look
at expanding it sometime in the future, make
sure that you are able to, with regard to the
local municipality and also, if you are buying
in a sectional title complex, the rules that the
complex has to follow. Select a model home,
you may have to wait a little longer for it, but
then you will have a home with all the bells
and whistles at a discounted price. The only
downside being you will have to take the
model home \