About 95% of our work is conveyancing. The rest supports it: the notarial, estate and advisory work our property clients need. We register property transfers, mortgage bonds and bond cancellations, register antenuptial contracts, draft sale agreements, attend to estate late transfers and provide notarial services, including consolidations, subdivisions and the registration of servitudes.
From our offices in Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha), Jeffreys Bay and East London we serve buyers, sellers, developers and banks throughout the Eastern Cape, including Humansdorp, St Francis Bay, Cape St Francis, Kariega (Uitenhage), Despatch and the Kouga region.
Under South African law, only a qualified conveyancer may attend to the transfer of immovable property and related transactions, and only an admitted attorney may qualify as a conveyancer. This safeguard protects the public and upholds the integrity of the South African land registration system, widely recognised as one of the most reliable in the world.
We are authorised to administer oaths and to authenticate legal documents.
Our exclusive mandates with developers and investors take our conveyancing service to the next level. Our attorneys are hands-on throughout the registration of every transfer and bond, and meet regularly with clients face to face or online.
Our service is ideal for high-value or complex property transactions, or whenever you value having a senior conveyancer oversee every key step.
We are the preferred conveyancers for many property developments and have registered thousands of developed units. Our development work covers sectional title schemes, plot-and-plan developments, township establishment, homeowners’ associations, exclusive use areas, servitudes and full transfer programmes. We also register mortgage bonds for all the major banks and attend to the sale and transfer of commercial buildings.
As property developers themselves, through the Schaëfer Development Trust, our founding directors understand the challenges, timelines and commercial realities developers face, and identify legal problems before they become obstacles.
Schaëfer Incorporated has three admitted Notaries Public.
Antenuptial contracts – R4 000, all-inclusive. Our fee includes VAT and Deeds Office fees. We explain your options – with or without the accrual system – in plain language, draft the contract, attend to signature before a notary, and register it in the Deeds Office. Read our guide to antenuptial contracts →
Our notarial services include:
Schaëfer Incorporated acts as lodging agent and correspondent for attorneys and conveyancers across South Africa, from our offices in Port Elizabeth, Jeffreys Bay and East London. Our East London branch attends to lodgements and registrations at the Qonce Deeds Office.
We act strictly as your agent. The client relationship and the instruction remain entirely yours.
We register new sectional title schemes for developers, and help owners, trustees and managing agents bring existing schemes up to date – including extensions of sections under Section 24 of the Sectional Titles Act, exclusive use areas and amendments to scheme rules.
