Property Lifecycle Experts
Your Efficient Conveyancing Process Starts Here.
We understand that navigating the world of property transactions can be complex and time-consuming. Whether you’re a real estate professional, a buyer, a seller, or a property investor, you need a reliable conveyancing solution that can simplify the process and help you achieve a smooth transaction.
Property Lifecycle Experts
Your Efficient Conveyancing Process Starts Here.
We understand that navigating the world of property transactions can be complex and time-consuming. Whether you’re a real estate professional, a buyer, a seller, or a property investor, you need a reliable conveyancing solution that can simplify the process and help you achieve a smooth transaction.
About us – What do we do?
As a conveyancing-focused law firm, we focus strongly on the needs of our clients from a fixed-asset ownership perspective. We’re geared for efficiency and the quick turn-around times so often required for the on-point finalization of transfers and other property-related transactions.
We offer the full range of services across the property lifecycle – from structuring and initial planning, all the way through financing, letting, and offloading.
Our focus & approach
This commitment to service is very much a part of the very culture of our firm. We’re passionate about our profession, passionate about our role within the South African property market, and passionate about serving our clients with pride.
We furthermore believe in a hands-on and personal approach. As such, every member of our team was chosen with our sights set firmly on providing a specialised, benchmarked, and innovative service. At Smalman Inc. we don’t settle for second-best so that our valued clients don’t have to either.
Fresh insights and expert advice
One Bad Letter and Your Eviction Falls Apart
A tenant may be in clear breach of a lease, but that does not guarantee a successful eviction. A recent High Court judgment shows how an unclear cancellation notice and a failure to follow the correct legal process can derail an otherwise strong case, leaving landlords with an expensive lesson in the importance of getting the basics right.
Dementia in the Family? Here Are Your Legal Options
A dementia diagnosis affects far more than memory. As mental capacity declines, families are often confronted with difficult legal and financial decisions. Many are surprised to learn that a Power of Attorney may no longer be valid. Understanding the alternatives can help protect a loved one’s affairs before a crisis develops. Read on for the low-down.
How to Protect Your Company from Unlawful Springboarding
Your top employee resigns and immediately opens up a new business in direct opposition to you. Using your software, your client relationships and your business methods to springboard their new start-up and poach your clients. We discuss, in the context of a recent High Court case, how our law can help you put a stop to that sort of unfair competition. And we share some tips on how to protect yourself from it in the future.
Your Dormant Trust Is Not Invisible to SARS
Trusts remain a valuable estate planning and asset protection tool, but they also carry ongoing compliance obligations. Many trustees assume that a dormant trust with no income, assets, or activity can simply be left alone. SARS has made it clear that inactivity does not remove a trust’s compliance obligations. With penalties now being imposed for outstanding trust returns, dormant trusts may be attracting more attention than their trustees realise.
Let us help simplify the process
Buying or selling a property can be exciting, but it can also be overwhelming with all the legal and administrative tasks involved. We are here to simplify the process and ensure a smooth and successful transaction.