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Property Strategist: Deposits
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South African property blogger. Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Would you think it inappropriate if your bank made it a rule of thumb that you had to have a minimum of 25% deposit before they would finance your home? Part of the problem that the "credit crisis" has highlighted is the extension of credit to consumers who could ill afford the gearing on a property portfolio. South African consumers have long gotten used to the idea of paying between 0 and 10% deposits (which many of them grumble about).
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SMEs in South Africa: SMEs - South Africa marking time?
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SMEs in South Africa. Sunday, July 22, 2012. SMEs - South Africa marking time? SMEs are once again in the background. Very little new is going on which is new. There is a SME conference in Bloemfontein 26 and 27 July. Contact the Bloemfontein Chamber of Commerce for details. The conference appears to be different to the run of the mill, so here's hoping it is. New info will be advised as it becomes available. Chamber of commerce. SACCI. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget.
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SMEs in South Africa: SMEs - marking time!
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SMEs in South Africa. Sunday, September 16, 2012. SMEs - marking time! I attended the conference in Bloemfontein. What a waste of time and effort. The losers - all the black SME owners that attended. As usual the organisers were more interested in reducing the speaking time of the white speakers and increasing the number of black speakers. Content and the quality thereof was irrelevant! SME owners need good and useful information and they need it from the best, not from racially profiled non-experts....
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SMEs in South Africa: The SME mindset - whites
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SMEs in South Africa. Wednesday, January 9, 2013. The SME mindset - whites. However, back to business! Soon after 1994, things started to change – very subtly. It took me a number of years to notice that it was not business as usual. Whites started to battle financially in their businesses. These were SMEs who had previously been great lifestyle businesses. Profit margins kept shrinking and turnover was not growing in a controlled fashion. The nett result is that the white business owners began to resent...
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SMEs in South Africa: January 2013
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SMEs in South Africa. Wednesday, January 9, 2013. The SME mindset - whites. However, back to business! Soon after 1994, things started to change – very subtly. It took me a number of years to notice that it was not business as usual. Whites started to battle financially in their businesses. These were SMEs who had previously been great lifestyle businesses. Profit margins kept shrinking and turnover was not growing in a controlled fashion. The nett result is that the white business owners began to resent...
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SMEs in South Africa: December 2012
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SMEs in South Africa. Tuesday, December 4, 2012. SMEs - lack of growth part of a bigger problem? How often do you hear people say I am a South African. Almost never. We are black, white, coloured Indian, Jew, Greek, English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Muslim, Hindu, whatever, but never South African. Until we see ourselves as a single nation we will continue to expend energy on stupid and unnecessary divisions which add no value to our country whatsoever. Instead of learning and working together, and bu...
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Property Strategist: December 2008
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South African property blogger. Wednesday, December 10, 2008. Do you trust estate agents? With the property market taking a bit of a tumble in the last few months in particular, some tough questions are being asked of estate agents and truth be told - many of them are being found wanting. The main issue I have with estate agents is that very few of the guys and girls who show me around show houses have any idea of 'property as an investment'. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Do you trust estate agents?
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SMEs in South Africa: May 2012
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SMEs in South Africa. Sunday, May 27, 2012. SMEs - chambers of commerce in South Africa. Is it available now? Will it happen in the near future? Because as with all things in South Africa everything is segmented into narrow interest groups. There is no need for religious, racial, cultural, sectoral segments within the SME group. There is only place for a single SME group. Chamber of commerce. SACCI. Wednesday, May 23, 2012. SMEs - are government hindering or helping? SMEs or the unions? I have been self ...
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SMEs in South Africa: SMEs - what SMEs need to do
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SMEs in South Africa. Sunday, July 1, 2012. SMEs - what SMEs need to do. SMEs are desperately in need of help and protection - from themselves. While it is easy to sit back and criticise government, especially when they make it so easy to do so, but surely we have responsibilities as well. How many SMEs take advantage of government efforts to assist business? How many SMEs complain in writing to government about what is wrong? How many SMEs have identified their weaknesses? 3 Marketing (excluding sales).
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SMEs in South Africa: April 2012
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SMEs in South Africa. Sunday, April 29, 2012. SMEs - why so many start-ups fail. Manage them for him. However the problem is that here we will try to make every SME owner an accountant and business plan writer. No one is evaluating the OPPORTUNITY. This is where they fail - before they even start! Saturday, April 28, 2012. Can SMEs deliver on government expectations? The first question has to be whether or not SMEs can deliver on these expectations? The second problem is access to finance. While the ...
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