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
Found Your Dream Home? Read This Before You Sign…
Summer’s the perfect season to go house-hunting, with the sun shining, new properties on the market, and sales surging. Let’s talk about what you should do when you’ve found your dream home and the agent asks you to sign an offer to purchase. We’ll lead you through the process and share some guidelines to help make it as simple, quick, and risk-free as possible.
Lie on Your CV and You Could End Up Paying Your Salary Back
Lying to get a job can cost far more than the job itself. A former V&A Waterfront chief information officer was ordered to pay nearly R2.9 million in damages after the Labour Court found that she had misled the company into employing her and into paying for two consultants who had worked for her private business. Just over R1 million of the award represented her total remuneration. The rest covered the consultants’ fees.
Can Your Employer Cancel Your 13th Cheque?
A 13th cheque is not automatically guaranteed. But where it forms part of your employment contract, your employer cannot simply withdraw it or replace it with a performance-based bonus without your agreement. The Labour Court ordered an employer that had done so to pay 45 employees a 13th cheque for every year it had gone unpaid since 2021.
Your Neighbour’s Dog Bites You. Who Pays?
Dog owners can face strict liability when their animals attack someone, meaning the injured person does not necessarily have to prove that the owner was negligent. But that doesn’t make owners automatically liable for every bite. Here, the claimant put his head over his neighbour’s boundary wall after being asked more than once to leave the guard dogs alone. The High Court ruling makes for interesting reading…
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.