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The SA Property Owners' Association (Sapoa) has appointed Neil Gopal as its new chief operating officer.

Commercial property association Sapoa will be researching service levels of organisations performing property, asset and facilities management to generate best practice guidelines and related fee structures.

Neil Gopal, the new chief operating office of commercial property body the South African Property Owners' Association (Sapoa), says one of the challenges facing the group is to get more black economic empowerment companies to join it.

With transformation of the South African property industry high on commercial property association Sapoa's agenda, the organisation is expected to announce its first woman president at its annual convention in Cape Town later this month.

Brian Kirchmann, CEO of commercial property association Sapoa, says a record number of delegates have signed up for the annual convention at the Cape Town Convention Centre from May 12- 14.

The South African Property Owners' Association (Sapoa) has added its voice to the growing discontent over the housing department bringing 38 Cuban architects and engineers to SA to train local people to build their own homes in townships and rural areas.

Gauteng's South African Property Owners' Association (Sapoa) members are increasingly concerned about the "chaos" prevalent at the Johannesburg City Council.

Pretoria - The SA Property Owners' Association (Sapoa) has proposed a short- and long-term solution for the housing department to the recent appeal court decision that gave tenants who failed to pay rent and buyers who defaulted on their bond payments the same protection against eviction as illegal squatters. 

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