Property News - March 2025
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Articles
Estate Planning - Why it Matters, and How To Get Started
Estate planning is one of the most important steps you can take to protect your assets and to ensure that your loved ones are cared for after you’re gone. It goes beyond just having a will, although that is of course an essential first step when it comes to executing your plan.
Legal View - Fired for not Working on the Sabbath
Our courts do not tolerate unfair discrimination in the workplace, and employers need to tread particularly carefully when it comes to the concept of “automatically unfair discrimination”. Get that one wrong and you could be penalised with an order to pay your employee two years of earnings as compensation.
AMSA - the sound and fury of a partial closure
AMSA, started life as Iscor, the South African Iron and Steel Corporation, way back in the 1920s. It was established by Hendrik van der Bijl, the pioneer who single-handedly industrialised South Africa and who also started Eskom, the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), Safmarine and more. Over the years, Iscor played a huge role in South Africa’s industrialisation, producing the steel essential for a modern industrial economy.
Innovation in Focus - Innovation Summit shaping the future of Real Estate
The built environment is changing, driven by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, digitalisation, and geospatial technology. At Knight Frank’s Innovation Summit in November experts from academia, technology, and real estate came together to explore how these trends are shaping the future of our sector.
Europe - Rate cuts, Tariffs and Defence Spending
Five rate cuts by the European Central Bank (ECB) to date and five by the end of the year – that’s the view of forecasting house Capital Economics. This sets Europe, excluding the ultra-low rate-loving Swiss, on a different path compared to the US and UK.
