Tenure Support Centre Case Study: Vincent’s RDP story – a tale of informal property transactions
The Tenure Support Centre (TSC) has been operational since July 2018 and since then has seen over 2000 clients with various property-related issues. The most common issue relates to problems with title deeds. This case study is about Vincent, a journalist who recently worked with TSC to document some of their client case studies. In a recent conversation, he mentioned his own experience of buying and selling a property informally which we asked him to write about. Vincent’s story echoes that of many of our TSC clients and demonstrates how and why informal transactions of RDP properties took place in the past, and continue to take place to this day. Perhaps most importantly his story reflects the risks buyers carry when engaging in informal transactions as evidenced by the length of time it took him to resell the house and the fact that many potential buyers became uninterested as soon as they found out he didn’t have the title deed.
This case study is also available on the TSC’s website: https://titledeed.org.za/vincents-rdp-story-a-tale-of-informal-property-transactions/