Property compliance in South Africa
Estate agencies, property managers, landlords, developers and the professionals who work with them.
Laws that usually apply
Estate agents and other property practitioners need a Fidelity Fund Certificate, keep client money in a trust account and make prescribed disclosures.
Residential landlords must follow the rules on leases, deposits and disputes.
Bodies corporate and trustees follow management rules, budgets and meetings.
Community schemes register with the CSOS, pay its levy and use it for disputes.
Embedded generation such as solar can need NERSA registration depending on size.
The property sector has its own B-BBEE code that clients, funders and tenants often ask about.
Estate agents are usually accountable institutions and must identify clients and report suspicious transactions.
Buyer, seller and tenant records include identity and financial information.
Consumer rights can apply to the services you supply and how you market them.
Many property businesses run through companies and trusts with filing and governance duties.
Electronic signatures and online transactions are common in the sector.
Commission-based staff and agents still raise employment questions.
Templates you will probably need
What customers, tenders and funders often ask to see
- FICA programme and client identification records
- Information Officer registration
- Privacy notice for buyers and tenants
- B-BBEE certificate
Estate agency registration and professional body rules are outside our self-assessments.
How ComplianceDesk helps
- Take the self-assessments above and see your gaps, free and without an account.
- Save a result to your organisation and each gap becomes a task with an owner and a due date.
- Fill in a template, save it to your Policy Library and track who has acknowledged it.
- Choose the filing dates that apply on the compliance calendar and get an email before each one.
Questions
Does using ComplianceDesk make us compliant?
No. The self-assessments show where you have gaps against each law and give you tasks, templates and reminders to close them. Compliance depends on what you actually do, and the content is a guide that an attorney should review before you rely on it.
Can I try the self-assessments without an account?
Yes. Every self-assessment is free to take, and your answers stay in your browser until you choose to save a result to an organisation.
Track it all in one place
ComplianceDesk turns each law into controls with owners, due dates and evidence.