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Why South Africa’s rental market is shifting South Africa’s housing market has been turned on its head once again with the current spike in the rental market. While the market experienced a surge in homebuyers due to a low-interest rate and favourable lending criteria by the banks, there is now a high demand for rental properties.

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When you can and can’t cancel your offer to purchase in South Africa There’s nothing more exciting than submitting an offer to purchase a property. But what happens if you change your mind?

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Coastal vs inland home price trends in South Africa right now Data analytics group Lightstone has published its latest data on South Africa’s property market, including the current state of the country’s housing market and the cost of buying a home.

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Here’s where South Africa’s ‘semigrators’ are going The Cape lifestyle with its natural scenic attractions, wide-open spaces and good schooling, retains an emphatic stamp of approval from ‘semigrators’ seeking a more appealing and healthy way of life, which this region offers in spades, says Annien Borg, MD of Pam Golding Properties in the Boland...

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Are you thinking about re-designing your kitchen? There are a few things worth considering.

“When re-designing or designing your kitchen, you need to make sure of three things – your space needs to be functional, of good quality and should have the right lighting. Incorporating these three elements ensures that you not only have a stylish space but that it also promotes maximum efficiency,“ Megan Bond from OBJEK suggests.

Neutral basics
When one thinks ‘functionality’, it doesn’t sound all that fun or trendy. However, focusing on function first, and keeping the design simple, allows you to explore different trends. For example, a neutral colour palette isn’t boring because it allows you to have fun with other trendy kitchen finishes.

Dare to be bold
Bond recommends being daring with your walls and worktops. “You could paint your walls a bold colour if you want to make more of a statement. Playing with interesting materials, colours and textures in splashbacks and worktops will give your kitchen more character.”

Modern and urban chic
You may want to give the space a modern, urban chic and subtly masculine look. To get the look, use a darker palette streamlined with a touch of stainless steel.

Lighting up
It’s the thing that lets everyone see your kitchen in all its glory – lighting. When considering light solutions, a balance of task and ambient lighting should be the most important element. Besides needing to see what you are doing in the kitchen, lighting creates a warm atmosphere.

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July’s companions bring a cheery sight and smell to any winter garden. Both thriving in cooler climates, pansies and foxgloves are a statement couple. The long of it, foxgloves, grow anywhere from 60 cm to 1.8m depending on your variety, bringing some vertical interest (as well as bees, birds and butterflies) to your garden. The short of it, pansies, grow to about 23 cm tall, better suited to the front row. Picture pansies encircling the taller foxgloves in a pot, or an island bed in your garden.

Pansies
For such delicate looking faces, pansies are pretty hardy plants, easy to grow and survive the bitter bite of winter. Their sweet fragrance perfumes the morning and evening air, particularly the yellow and blue varieties. Other colours include purple, red, white, violet, gold and even black (very dark purple).

Pansies love full winter sun or partial shade; they can survive light freezes and bloom throughout winter and spring. Perfect for front of borders and beds, or planted en masse among other flowers; they also work well in containers. Just don’t plant too close together as they need air flow.

Water thoroughly about once a week, depending on rainfall, and try to water the soil around them and not their leaves or petals.

Foxgloves
Foxgloves produce impressive clusters of bell-shaped blooms in varieties of lavender, pink, red, purple and white. Like a little girl’s freckled nose, their throats are spotted on the areas where the sun reaches. They prefer full sun or partial shade, but if your climate is very hot, opt for the shadier spot. Avoid windy areas as these tall beauties don’t appreciate getting too ruffled. A rich, well drained, acidic and moist soil is ideal. Add a 2-inch layer of mulch to help retain moisture as well as control weeds and apply a thin layer of compost in spring.

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Living in a small home comes with some serious benefits – like lower rent or bond repayments and quick and easy cleaning.

However, the drawback of living in a small abode is that sometimes it feels like you’re running out of space, particularly in the living room. Fortunately, there are a few ways you can work around this…

1. Take the raise
Give your home a lift by raising furniture off the ground. You can buy or make wooden feet for sofas and beds to help lift them off the floor. This not only helps make a space feel airier by allowing natural light to shine underneath items, but it could also provide you with a sneaky storage space. Simply add caster wheels to wooden boxes or drawers, which you can slide under a sofa, and you’ll have storage for magazines and DVDs.

2. Chair down
We love occasional chairs but, if you have one long sofa, do you really need all the extra seats? In a small living room, occasional chairs can make the space feel cramped. The solution is simple – sell them and buy space-saving ottomans. Look for ones that double up in function by offering storage space. Not only will you have a place to put your feet up, but ottomans work well as seats for guests and can even be used as a coffee table if you place a tray on top.

3. Talking about tables
If ottomans can double up as coffee tables, you can free up even more space by getting rid of the coffee table in your lounge. Yes, a large coffee table is lovely but, when you take it away, you increase the flow in a small living room which makes it seem roomier than it really is.

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With water being an increasingly scarce resource, here are ways to save water when gardening.

Water Wise
Experts say that watering your garden with a watering can saves more water than using a hosepipe. It is also said to be a more efficient way of reaching the roots.
Ideally you should water plants before 10am in the morning or after 4pm as evaporation is the highest between these hours. Water less frequently, but for longer. This will promote deeper root systems resulting in stronger plants.

Plant Focus
Use plenty of compost in the garden, which not only enriches the soil and provides essential nutrients to the plants, but improves the soil’s water holding capacity.
When planting, group the items with high water requirements together. As you select what to plant, choose more indigenous plants that don’t require a lot of water.
Take some time to identify and remove alien invader plants which are not only bad for the environment but also tend to draw a lot of water.

More Saving
Did you know that you can use the water you’ve used to boil eggs for pot plants? While boiling, the eggs release nutrients that are highly beneficial to plants. Be sure to chill the water before use.
Another way to save and reuse is to gather rainwater. This can be done in buckets, via a tank, or any other DIY system that you can create to collect rainwater and then use it in your garden.

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There’s nothing quite like walking across a lush, green lawn. Here’s how to keep your grass looking good.

Here’s how to get your picture-perfect lawn:

Don’t cut your lawn too short or too often
Cutting your grass too short makes it difficult for your grass to get enough sunlight to be healthy. Repetitive cutting also damages your lawn and gives it even less of a chance to grow. Adjust your lawnmower blade so that it cuts the grass at longer heights. Also, make sure that your blades are sharp. Dull blades tear grass instead of cutting it. This means that your grass will take extra time to repair itself instead of growing thick and green.

Water your lawn well, but at irregular times
Water your lawn at irregular intervals. This will cause the top section of the soil to dry out, which means the grass roots will dig down deeply to reach the water that has been stored there. Watering your lawn frequently means that the roots will not bother to search for water below because there will always be water near the top. Also, grass that is watered too often will create clumps and runners that block soil from being able to access sunlight and water. This weakens your grass.

Post-mowing care
After mowing, leave grass clippings on the lawn. They will break down and compost, which adds nutrients to the soil. Poking holes in your lawn using spiked shoes, a lawn aerator, or even a screwdriver, allows moisture and air to get down into the soil and loosen it up. Fertilise your lawn in late spring and autumn before harsher weather hits to protect your lawn.

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