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Sure, a good agent can create tension and competition between buyers in order to nudge the price upwards.

As I was quoted in the New York Times recently, home prices in Johannesburg are undervalued. So much so that they are the cheapest they have been in 20 years.

It is astonishing just how resilient the South African residential property market can be – and has been – in the face of constant adversity.

My imagination as a residential property marketer was captured last week by an interesting feature in the Mail & Guardian.

Getting to, and through, a seller’s front door to quote on the sale of a house is a major achievement for an estate agent.

There is no short route to achieving optimum value in a home sale – even at the best of times. And owner-selling is not the solution to the challenge.

It is simply naïve to think that compromising on a number of essential steps in a best-outcome marketing programme will still lead to optimum price or result.

The cloud of uncertainty that has been overhanging the residential property sector for way too long is at last showing small, but welcome, signs of lifting.

In the past two weeks, there has been a noticeable increase both in buyer activity and commitment to making offers.

Jacob Zuma’s survival of the ninth consecutive parliamentary vote of no confidence should have little or no impact on South Africa’s flat-lining property market