The conveyancing department is made up of a large number of conveyancing secretaries and assistants. It operates directly in the Capetown, Pretoria and the Johannesburg Deeds Registries which ensures that any delays, which are usually experienced when utilizing Correspondents in these Deeds Registries, are avoided as it's conveyancers attend these Deeds Registries each day to ensure personal attention for each transaction.

Dykes van Heerden has developed a comprehensive Reporting System, the first of it's kind, and accordingly the clients of Dykes van Heerden are able at any time to ascertain what is happening with their particular transaction.
In addition, estate agents, developers and other interested parties are given hard copy reports, in respect of each transaction, at least once a week, to ensure that the clients are kept abreast with the developments on each file.

A number of professional assistants and candidate attorneys are also employed to ensure that clients, who are unable to attend to the offices of Dykes van Heerden, receive personal attention at their homes or offices.

They have been complimented on numerous occasions for their politeness and efficiency. They spend a large portion of their day attending clients to assist them with the completion and signature of documentation. They also attend the offices of various local Councils and the Receiver of Revenues offices to expedite the issuing of clearance certificates and transfer duty receipts.

Accordingly, Dykes van Heerden is the attorney of choice for many estate agents in areas far afield from it's offices due to the fact that the purchasers and sellers are afforded the luxury of signing the documents at their homes or offices instead of having to attend an attorney's office. Dykes van Heerden has always taken the approach that its office is where the work is done but that the business is to be transacted wherever the clients are situated. It is the policy of Dykes van Heerden to ensure that the transaction is made as pleasurable as possible with as little inconvenience as possible. Accordingly the conveyancing secretaries, consultants, professional assistants and candidate attorneys all co-operate to ensure that as little inconvenience as possible is caused to the clients.

To ensure maximum efficiency most of the conveyancing secretaries work in teams. The purpose of this is to ensure that more than one person is au fait with each transaction. This means that in the event of any person being ill or going on leave, the work does not grind to a halt, but is in fact dealt with by the rest of the team.

The conveyancing staff relies upon and is supported by an efficient hardworking administration department and accounts department as well as messengers who travel far and wide to ensure that documents are collected and delivered timeously.

In addition Diane Nielson and her team are responsible for ensuring that all investments are made timeously and at the best possible interest rate to ensure that purchasers who pay deposits obtain the best possible return.

Due to the importance of conveyancing the partners made a conscious decision to only employ the most qualified and efficient conveyancing secretaries available. Accordingly secretaries were head hunted from as far a field as Pretoria and Randfontein. As a result, the turn around time for conveyancing matters is consistently fast.

Dykes van Heerden is instructed by numerous estate agent firms and is fortunate enough to be on the panel of ABSA Bank, Nedcor Bank, First National Bank, Standard Bank, Mercantile Lisbon Bank, the commercial panel of ABSA Bank, the ABSA-One panel of ABSA Bank and the Libertas panel of Standard Bank.

The firm is also instructed by a number of developers and does conveyancing work in respect of developments as far afield as Germiston, Midrand, Sandton and Johannesburg and even Knysna.

Dykes van Heerden is supported by various consultants who's functions are to ensure that transactions proceed as smoothly and expeditiously as possible. The consultants' functions include:

Delievering documents to clients, when necessary, to their offices or homes.
Liasing with estate agents, bank representatives and communication with all clients.