Cluver Markotter has an established property department of repute with expertise in all aspects of property law and commercial transactions related to immovable property. This department provides wide-ranging services, including the following:

• advice on and planning of residential, sectional title and commercial property developments
• transfer of residential, sectional title, commercial and farming properties
• deceased estate transfers
• advice on and registration of servitudes
• leases for commercial and residential properties
• advice on transfer of shares or members' interests in property holding companies or close corporations
• advice on taxation issues related to immovable property transactions, e.g. Transfer Duty, Value Added Tax, Income Tax, Donation Tax, Capital Gains Tax
• assistance with water and environmental law issues.

We also serve as panel attorneys for various financial institutions. In this capacity we attend to the registration of mortgage bonds over commercial, residential, sectional title and farming properties.

In addition, our qualified notaries attend to the authentication of documents for use both locally and internationally, advice clients thereon and attend to the registration of:

• antenuptial contracts
• trusts
• notarial bonds
• servitudes
• general powers of attorney
• notarial lease agreements