Yugandrie Maharaj and Associates is a well-established client-centred Law Firm offering a personal approach to Legal Services.

We have offices in:  Pietermaritzburg, Durban, Johannesburg.

Agency Conveyancing

Our office is situated in Pietermaritzburg, the home of the KwaZulu-Natal Deeds Registry. As a result, we are able to provide your firm with highly professional services at the Deeds Office.

Deeds Registration

We will attend to searches, lodgements as well as any queries that may be raised by the examiners. We, at Yugandrie Maharaj and Associates, are here to ensure that the deeds registration process runs as smoothly and swiftly as possible.

A Wealth of Experience

Decades of experience allows us to offer the added service of checking all your documents before lodgement, in order to minimise the risk of any queries being raised at the Deeds Office.

About Us

Committed to helping our clients succeed

Yugandrie Maharaj and Associates is a well-established client-centred Law Firm offering a personal approach to Legal Services.  The Law firm was founded by Dr. Yugandrie Maharaj in 2008.

Our professional team has performed duties for multiple successful Sectional Title matters, and Developments, Subdivisions of Land, Servitudes and Expropriations, Umgeni Pipeline servitudes. together with Vesting transfers. We are familiar with the new Legislation governing subdivisions, Developments and the like. To name but a few, we have attended to Developments such as Beacon Hill Development in Pietermaritzburg, The Farm Pencarrow in the South Coast with regards to subdivisions, and the Sectional Scheme of Atrium, at Durban, regarding Sectional Title Matters. 

More About Us & Our Services

The Law firm was founded by Dr. Yugandrie Maharaj in 2008.

We have the services of a Consultant, Mr Oswald Wade who had 31 years’ experience in the Deeds office, and a Second Employee, Cheryldene Fowle, a former Assistant Registrar of Deeds, who has had 25 years’ experience at  the Deeds office, both who are experts in Sectional Title Matters, Developments as well as being on the Panel on the Provincial Task Team for the implementation of “SPLUMA” (The Spatial Planning and Land Use Management), They provide  valuable input with regards to Deed Registration procedures, and all Sub divisional matters, as well as opening of Townships. (Being formal or informal townships). Private Township Board (PTB), and has regular contact with the Land Surveys department, the Msunduzi Municipality, and the Surveyor Generals office (General Plans and Diagrams of surveyed property.)  

We are familiar with the registration of Bonds, Private bonds, Collateral, Surety, Participation bonds etc. And we are familiar with the registration and drafting of Absa, Nedbank, Standard Bank and First National Bank Bonds.     

We have the very latest software on the market with the most recent computer software, we mention some of the programs- Ghost Convey, Windeed and Search Works, Deeds Web and E4 Legal Studio etc. which is there to facilitate the drafting of the bonds.

We are familiar with the cancellation, the release of mother bonds on Sectional matters and the cessions of bonds be it for security or for value received without recourses.

All our information required will be close at hand and freely accessible, thus obtaining maximum productivity with the minimum expenditure of time.

With regards to sectional matters, we also register subdivisions of Sectional units, Extensions thereof and the registrations of Portions of a Right to Extend in a Sectional scheme, as well as cessions of real rights

A thorough knowledge of the law is required including knowledge of numerous Acts of Parliament. There is no substitute for a detailed knowledge of the Deeds Registries Act and Regulations and the Sectional Titles Act and Regulations, and successful, conveyancing practice will have at its disposal a comprehensive library on property law which includes all the relevant Acts. Our practice has regular access to Chief Registrar’s Circulars, Registrars’ Conference Resolutions as well as Registrars’ Circulars which pertain to a particular Deeds Registry. Provisions of these circulars are provided to the Firm, thus all information provided is completely correct. 

 We are familiar with Proc 293/1962, Under KZN Ingonyama Trust Act 1997, where a township or General Plan had been framed. Proclamation R293/1962,-  Properties owned by Republic (Act 108/1961, and Vestings to be registered in terms of Section 28 (1) of the constitution is required to vest such properties in the provincial Government of KwazuluNatal where properties are used for schools, hospitals etc vested in local government or provincial.

We are familiar with General Plans /Diagrams which have been surveyed and framed by a land Surveyor and certain acts which are endorsed  thereon , and whether the Surveyor General has approved finally or provisionally, and the Plan is duly endorsed. This is crucial information for all Developments, be it conventional or Sectional.

Our company is familiar with most Acts relating to Government and provincial Authorities.

Services Overview

Our firm offers services on a wide range of legal issues, including (but not limited to):

  • Drafting Of Agreements Of Sale
  • Drafting Of Lease Agreements
  • Registration Of Transfers
  • Subdivision And Consolidation Of Properties
  • Notarial Work
  • Sectional Title Developments;
  • Township Developments;
  • Registration Of Bonds, Private Bonds, Collateral, Surety, Participation Bonds Etc.

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We have offices in the following locations:

Pietermaritzburg: 9 View Avenue, Athlone (Head Office)
Durban:45 Richefond Circle, Ridge 4 Suite 111, Ridgeside Umhlanga
Johannesburg: 13 Friedman Drive, Johannesburg.

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