Do not use ****s van Heerden Inc to sell or buy a house, you will definitely regret it.

I am having the worst experience with these lawyers; I recently sold my house through Harcourts which works with ****s van Heerden Inc. The sale of my house was completed in January 2025, they sent me all the documents which included the municipal clearance certificate, after the sell was completed, I have been getting the municipal bill for the sold property that I still owe and I cant close the account, When I reached out to them, they first said that they got the clearance certificate so the account should be cleared and closed by the municipality, I went back to the municipality and they mentioned that ****s had used the section 118 to pay less and the rest I was going to pay later, don’t know why as I had clearly instructed them to settle my municipal account from the sell proceedings. Now I am being told that I must deal with this with the municipality as they have nothing to do with it.

Below is the email I got from their employee “Mandy Ruiter” :

“You can see from the supporting documents I sent you that everything was done correctly from our side. Please direct your frustration at COJ who are clearly at fault with this”

Please do proper research when selling or buying your property otherwise you will get these issues from law firms like these if you are not careful.

In my opinion, they don't deserver even half a start.