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Offer to Purchase Sectional Title Unit

SECTIONAL TITLE OFFER TO PURCHASE - UNIT RE-SALES ONLY

Between:


(SELLER)

of 


and


of 


1. Sale Of Property
Subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, the Seller hereby sells to the Purchaser who hereby purchases the following property:
(a) Section no_______ in the building or buildings known as_______________________ being__________ number .
(b)

An undivided share in the common property in the scheme apportioned to the said section in accordance with the participation quota as endorsed on the said Sectional Plan.

(c) An exclusive use area described as_____________________________ no.

Included in the sale of the property are the movable assets reflected in annexure "A" hereto.

2. Purchase Price And Guarentees
2.1

The purchase price of the property shall be R_____________ which price shall be payable by the Purchaser to the Seller on registration of transfer, for which payment the Purchaser shall provide the Seller with cash or a Guarantee approved by the Seller on request, save that request shall not be made prior to the fulfillment of the suspensive conditions contained herein. Should the purchase price or any part thereof be paid in cash by the Purchaser prior to date of transfer, then and in that event, the Purchaser expressly authorises the Seller's conveyancer to invest same on his behalf in an interest bearing trust account.

2.2

On registration of transfer of the property into the name of the Purchaser, the Seller's Conveyancers are irrevocably authorised to make payment of the commission due under this agreement and shall refund the Purchaser all interest which has accrued on any monies held in trust.

3. Acknowledgements by Purchaser
The Purchaser acknowledges that:
3.1

he has acquainted himself with the nature, condition, extent and locality of the Property and he will have no claim whatsoever against the Seller for any deficiency in the size of the property and

3.2

the property is sold to the extent as it now lies, "voetstoots", without any warranties whether express or implied and the Seller shall not be liable for any defects whether latent or otherwise in the Property nor for any damages suffered by the Purchaser by reason of such defects and subject to all the servitudes, other real rights and conditions, if any, burdening or benefiting the land or the common property, in terms of the seller's Title Deed and prior Title Deeds and Sectional Plans and in terms of The Rules of the Body Corporate or as conditions imposed by the Developer Local Authority or Administrator.

3.3 no representations have been made by either the Seller or any party acting on behalf of the Seller save those contained herein.
4. Risk and ownership
With effect from the date of registration of transfer:-
4.1 all the benefits and risks of ownership of the property shall pass to the Purchaser; and
4.2

the Purchaser shall be entitled to the rents (if any) payable in respect of the property; and

4.3 the Seller shall become liable for and forthwith refund the Purchaser the rents (if any) paid in respect of any period after the said date.
5. Occupation And Occupational Interest
5.1

It is hereby agreed that occupation of the property shall be given to the Purchaser on ________________ on which date the purchaser shall take occupation thereof.

5.2

If the date upon which occupation of the property is given to the Purchaser does not coincide with the date of registration of transfer, the party enjoying occupation of the property while it is registered in the name of the other party, shall in consideration of such occupation and for the period of such occupation, pay to the other party occupational interest of R_____________ per month.  Should registration of transfer not be effected by ____________, then and in that event the occupational interest shall increase to R __________ per month from the said date to date of registration of transfer. The said occupational interest shall be paid to the Seller's Conveyancers.

5.3

In additional to the aforesaid occupational interest, the Purchaser shall be liable for all levies or other charges imposed upon the property by the body corporate or like body from date of occupation.

5.4

If occupation of the property is given to the Purchaser prior to registration of transfer the Purchaser shall not be entitled to make any alterations or additions to the property before the date of registration of transfer. The Purchaser shall be obliged in the event of the cancellation or lapse of this Agreement to forthwith vacate the property and restore it to the Seller in the same condition as when the Purchaser took occupation, it being acknowledged that no tenancy shall be created by the Purchaser taking occupation prior to registration of transfer and that the Purchaser will have no claims whatsoever against the Seller arising out of any alternations or additions made to the property by the Purchaser.

5.5

All occupational interest shall be payable monthly in advance, provided that the Purchaser shall be entitled to a refund of a proportionate share of the payment in respect of the month in which the property is registered into his name and calculated from the date of such registration.

6. Transfer
6.1

The Purchaser shall be liable for payment of the Conveyancer's fees in respect of the registration of transfer of the property in the Purchaser's name, such fees being payable on request by the Conveyancer. The Purchaser shall on request pay all other expenses of and incidental to the registration of transfer of the property into the name of the Purchaser, including transfer and stamp duty and survey and diagram fees (if any), as well as the costs of registration of any bond referred to in this Agreement

6.2

The Seller and the Purchaser undertake immediately upon being requested to do so to sign all documents required to be signed in connection with the transfer, the cancellation of all bonds at present registered over the property and the registration of any bonds to be registered in terms of this Agreement.

7. Breach

In the event of either one of the parties ("the defaulting party") committing a breach of any of the other terms of this Agreement and failing to remedy such breach within a period of 10 (Ten) days after receipt of a written notice from the other party ("the aggrieved party") calling upon the defaulting party to remedy the breach complained of, then the aggrieved party shall be entitled at his sole discretion and without prejudice to any of his other rights in law, either to claim specific performance of the terms of this Agreement or to cancel this Agreement forthwith and without further notice claim and recover damages from the defaulting party.

8. Domicile

Each party chooses as his domicilium citandi et executandi his address as set out in the preamble hereto, at which address all notices and legal process in relation to this Agreement or any action arising therefrom may be effectually delivered and served.

9. General
9.1

The parties undertake to do all such things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the implementation of the terms, conditions and import of this Agreement.

9.2

This Agreement constitutes the sole and entire agreement or any consensual cancellation thereof shall be of no force or effect unless reduced to writing and signed by the parties or their duly authorised representatives.

9.3

No variation of the terms and conditions of this Agreement or any consensual cancellation thereof shall be of any force or effect unless reduced to writing and signed by the parties or their duly authorised representatives.

9.4

No indulgence which either party ("the grantor") may grant to the other ("the grantee") shall constitute a waiver of any of the rights of the grantor who shall not thereby be precluded from exercising any rights against the grantee which may have arisen in the past or which might arise in the future.

9.5

The Seller and the Purchaser warrant to each other that all consents required in terms of the Matrimonial Property Act No. 88 of 1984 have been duly furnished.

10. Estate Agent's Commission
10.1

Commission calculated at ___________ % of the Purchase Price plus VAT shall be paid by the Seller to____________________________ provided that should the Purchaser fail to carry out his/her obligations in terms of this Agreement resulting in transfer not being passed, then and in that event, ____________________________________ shall be entitled to recover the commission from the Purchaser.

10.2

The said commission will be earned upon the signature of this Agreement by both the Purchaser and the Seller and the fulfillment (or waiver, as the case may be) of all suspensive conditions contained herein and is payable upon registration of transfer of the property into the name of the Purchaser.

10.3

___________________________hereby accept all benefits and obligations conferred upon it in terms hereof.

The Purchaser warrants that no estate agent introduced him to the property or initiated the sale or was the effective cause of the sale.

11. Mortgage Bond

This Agreement is subject to the suspensive condition that the Purchaser (or the Seller or the Estate Agent on behalf of the Purchaser) obtains approval, by not later than __________________ for the granting of a loan by an Institution of not less than R________________ upon the security of a first mortgage bond to be registered over the property on such terms as are normally applicable. This suspensive condition shall be deemed to have been fulfilled by notification of approval in principal by such Institution upon such terms normally applicable to loans of this nature including a requirement of a deed of suretyship by the Purchaser's spouse, director or member as the case may be.

12. Waiver Of Conditions And Lapse Of Agreement
12.1

The Purchaser may, at any time prior to the fulfillment of any suspensive condition contained in this Agreement, advise the Seller in writing that he waives the benefit of such condition, in which event this Agreement will no longer be subject to such condition.

12.2

Should any suspensive condition contained in this Agreement not be timeously fulfilled, the entire Agreement shall automatically lapse and be of no further force or effect. In such event all amounts paid by the Purchaser (excluding the occupational interest) shall be refunded to him together with any interest that has accrued thereon.

13. Certificates
The Seller shall, at his cost, which shall include, where necessary, any work to be carried out, furnish the Purchaser with a valid Certificate of Compliance, that the entire electrical installation on the property complies fully with the provisions of the Electrical Installations Regulations.
14. Acceptance

This offer is open for acceptance and is irrevocable until _________________ and upon acceptance by the Seller will constitute a sale upon the terms and conditions herein set forth.

15. Suspensive Condition

This sale is subject to the suspensive conditions that the purchaser sells his property, namely___________________________ within_________ days from date of last signature hereon, for a price not exceeding R________________ . 

It is recorded that it is the intention of the parties that transfer of the Purchaser's property must be effected prior to or simultaneously with transfer to the Purchaser of the property sold in terms hereof. The guarantees required in terms of clause 2 and costs of transfer shall be furnished from the sale of the Purchaser's property.

16. Ratification Clause

Notwithstanding signature of this agreement by the parties, the Seller retains the right to continue marketing his property and in the event of the Seller receiving a more favourable written offer from a third party, he shall notify the purchaser in writing of the new offer by delivering a copy of the new offer together with his written notification to the Purchaser. The Purchaser shall then have the right to within 72 hours of receipt of such notification, to waive any suspensive condition contained herein and match the terms of such more favourable offer, by handing a written notification of such waiver and acceptance of such more favourable terms of the Seller or to _____________________________________. Should the Purchaser fail to waive the suspensive condition/s as aforesaid or accept such more favourable terms, then and in that event the Seller shall be entitled but not obliged to resile from this agreement and accept such alternative offer. The period of 72 hours shall not include Weekends or public holidays.

17. Rules

The Purchaser acknowledges that he has Read the Rules of the body corporate and hereby undertakes for and on behalf of himself, his family and any other person who may occupy the section to observe and comply fully and effectually in all respects with the said rules.

18. Real Right to Extend
A Real Right to extend the scheme as contemplated in Section 25 of the Sectional Titles Act 1986 is registered in favour of the developer or the body corporate.

*Delete if not applicable.

19. Cooling Off
The purchaser shall have the right to revoke this offer or terminate this deed of alienation as the case may be in terms of Sections 29A of the Alienation of Land Act of 1981 as amended within five days of signature hereof by the purchaser by delivery or written notice to that effect to the seller of his agent within the said five day period. The period of five days shall be calculated with the exclusion of the day of signature by the purchaser and any Saturday, Sunday or Public Holiday.

Subject to:

19.1 The property described herein being used or intended to be used mainly for residential purposes; and
19.2 The property described herein not being agricultural land; and
19.3 The purchaser price of the property not exceeding R 250 000.00;
19.4 The purchaser being a natural person or persons; and
19.5 The property not having been purchased on auction; and
19.6 The parties to this agreement not having previously entered into a Deed of Sale of the same property on substantially the same terms; and
19.7 This Deed of Sale not containing a nomination clause; and
19.8 The property described herein not having been purchased by the exercise of an option which was open for a period of at least five days;
Such written notice by the purchaser revoking the offer or terminating the deed of alienation shall only be effective if it:
(a) is signed by the purchaser or his of her agent acting on his or her authority;
(b) identifies the offer or deed of alienation that is being revoked or terminated, as the case may be; and
(c)  is unconditional.

Where an offer is revoked or deed of alienation is terminated as contemplated above, every person who received an amount from the purchaser or any prospective purchaser in respect of the offer or deed of alienation, as the case may be, shall refund the full amount of such payment to the purchaser within 10 days of the date of which the notice referred to the above was delivered to the seller or his or her agent

20.

In the event of the Purchaser acting as agent for a Company or Close Corporation to be formed or incorporated or a Principal, and the Purchaser as agent failing within 30 (thirty) days from the date of sale to register a Company of Close Corporation having as one of its objectives the adoption or ratification of this agreement, or in the event of such Company or Close Corporation failing to adopt or ratify the agreement within 14 (fourteen) days after the date of its incorporation or the Principal failing to ratify the purchase, within 7 (seven) days after the date of sale, then in either such event, the Purchaser shall be deemed as from the date of sale to have entered into this agreement in his personal capacity and as principal and to have acquired and assumed the rights and obligations of the Purchaser under this agreement.

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 SPECIAL CONDITIONS


 


 


 


SIGNED by the SELLER at PORT ELIZABETH on the___________ day of_____________ 2___

AS WITNESSES:

1._____________________                                  _______________________
                                                                      SELLER

2._____________________                                  _______________________
                                                                      SPOUSE OF SELLER

SIGNED by the PURCHASER at PORT ELIZABETH on the_________ day of___________ 2___

AS WITNESSES:

1. _____________________                                ________________________
                                                                     PURCHASER

2.______________________                               ________________________
                                                                     SPOUSE OF PURCHASER


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