Being a property owner in South Africa can be a very profitable investment, especially if you’re in high-density metro areas. To ensure you’re property remains a lucrative venture you will need tenants to occupy your place, which is easier said than done. Finding reliable and trustworthy tenants takes time, time that you’re not collecting a rental income.
To find tenants interested in your area you could use word of mouth, ads in the local newspaper or local message boards or you could turn to the internet.
Advertising rental property in South Africa
The old way of announcing you’re rental space by putting a sign up no longer works in this day and age, especially if your target is the student or the younger generation. In these times, everything is done through the web.
So how do you take advantage of all these potential tenants on the web? By finding the right places to advertise. In the interest of helping those who want to advertise online with accredited and safe websites, we’ve put together a list of seven websites.
You can use one or all of them to promote your rental listing to get the a number of leads that could turn out to be your next tenant.
Where to advertise your rental property online in South Africa
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OLX
OLX is present in 94 countries, 42 languages and has more than 100 million unique visitors every month, and OLX South Africa is spread across all the major cities in South Africa.
With that many visitors, the possibility of someone seeing and showing interest in your rental listing is extremely high and provides you options in deciding who rents your space.
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Gumtree South Africa
This local online classifieds site contains 986001 live classified listings.
Gumtree helps people connect with others in their local area so they can meet and complete transactions the good old fashioned way; face-to-face. It has become South Africa’s favourite online classifieds destination. Combining the old fashioned way of face-to-face with modern technology allows you to get-to-know the interested renter and check out their story when you meet face-to-face.
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Property24.com
Is South Africa’s largest property search portal and suggest that they be the place to start your property search. Property24.com lists houses, flats, vacant land and farms from all of SA’s leading estate agents. Being one of the largest property search portal increase the probability of your rental listing answered is significantly great.
To list your property all you have to do is contact one of their trusted Estate Agents and they will help you from there.
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RENTLINE.CO
They offer Free Rental Classifieds. RENTLINE.CO the only website dedicated solely to rental properties in South Africa. Their website is easy to use and provides highly focused navigation. They are FREE for everyone, whether you are posting an ad for your property or simply searching for your next home. Another benefit to this website is they spend their money to advertise your listings on Facebook to ensure that you find a tenant quickly. Lastly, they give you the ability to post an ad for any city in South Africa.
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Private property
They boast the surety of 50 interested tenants for every rental, increasing the guarantee of finding a tenant in no time. They allow you create a detailed advert, as well as providing free email and SMS marketing to alert the tenants in your area that your rental is available. Similarly, they conduct fraud checks on all their properties so tenants know that they can use their website with confidence.
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Myproperty
MyProperty is South Africa’s largest independent property portal, with over 200,000 visitors a month on our website and mobile website. With daily contact with thousands of people through all their social media channels and continuous online marketing campaigns aiming search engines and related property websites, you are bound to receive numerous responses to your listing.
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AirBnB
If you’re looking to make some extra cash in the off season or want to rent our your place for short periods of time, adding your place to AirBnB is a great option. Users can visit your listing and inquire if they can stay for a few days or up to a few months, many of them being foreigners which could bag you foreign currency.
Advertising online
Now that the problem of where to place your rental ads has been solved, the only problem you will have now is choosing who will rent your space from all the interested applicants.
Take the legal route
If you’re looking to evict a tenant from your property and want to avoid a long drawn out case or want to limit your risk then present your case to a eviction lawyer. As a specialist in the field of evictions, our team of lawyers will evaluate your case and give you solid advice if you have a case that will hold up in a court of law.
Contact us
If you need advice on your eviction case or would like us to represent your case, get in touch with Le Roux
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