What is estate management?

Residential estate living in South Africa is the fastest growing market in the property sector. The reasons are multiple and varied: security fears driven by high levels of crime, the costs of maintaining an individual property, and the desire to live in a community environment.

It is statutory that Sectional Title developments and Home Owners Associations (HOA) appoint a Board of trustees/directors to manage the affairs of the estate. Hereafter both of these bodies are referred to as the Board to eliminate repetition; estate infers complexes and other names that may from time to time be allocated to communal residential living.

Trustees/directors offer their services voluntarily with no financial remuneration; the duties of trustees/directors are conducted during their private time. A managing agent is normally appointed to act on behalf of the Board and the jurisdiction of a managing agent is normally exclusive to the financial portfolio of the estate which includes levy collection. Read more...

WHAT do we DO?

Ecliptic Estate Management is the intermediary between the Board and everyone else; the face on the poster so to speak, which removes the need for trustees/directors to be available for and involved in the routine issues that arise from managing the estate.

All contractors and service providers are outsourced and appointed by the Board; Ecliptic Estate Management is not responsible for those portfolios in their own right, but is responsible for managing and communicating with them on behalf of the Board and for ensuring that the Board’s instructions are conveyed in return.

Ecliptic Estate Management receives the calls from the residents when their geysers burst at midnight or when the DSTV system crashes during a sports’ event. Ecliptic Estate Management ensures that the Board is not inundated with these crises and can instead focus its valuable time on the more important decision-making policies. Read more...