Independent. Impartial. Certified.
Independent third-party audits and assessments for the South African short-term rental industry

The audit standard for short-term rentals.

STRCAS conducts independent compliance assessments and audits that give municipalities, regulators and property owners verifiable evidence of adherence to South Africa's tourism, zoning, safety and licensing frameworks.

Independent

We don't sell compliance services. We assess and we audit — nothing else.

National

Accredited assessors by province — one standard applied everywhere.

Evidence-based

Every finding traces to a record and a clause. Nothing sampled, nothing assumed.

POPIA-safe

Assessment records handled to statutory data-retention standards.

Where do you fit?

Three ways to work with STRCAS.

STRCAS is industry infrastructure. Councils use it for capacity, compliance companies use it to get properties documented, and property professionals join it to earn.

Councils & regulators

A standard you cannot enforce is not a standard. Get inspection capacity without headcount — accredited, rated, and paid per job.

How it works for councils

Compliance companies

Book an accredited assessor to document a property so you can lodge the application. Available to every compliance company on the same published terms.

Book an assessor

Property professionals

Already visiting properties? Get paid for the visit — and meet the owners who become your next listing.

Join the network

The gap

Registration is coming. Somebody has to check.

Nationally
~90,000

Short-term rental properties across South Africa, in every province.

Each one needs
7+

Separate compliance areas — zoning, electrical, gas, fire, health, licensing, insurance.

Municipal inspectors available
Nowhere near enough

Which is exactly why the standard is currently unenforceable.

The seven certificates a single short-term rental needs — zoning, electrical, gas, fire, health, licensing and insurance — each naming its issuer and the instrument behind it, plus two continuous obligations that produce no certificate: POPIA and the Immigration Act guest register.
How it works

Assessed on the ground. Audited independently.

Two separate roles, two separate people, deliberately. The wall between them is what makes the sign-off worth something.

Stage I
I

Booked

A compliance company or council books an assessor for a property.

Stage II
II

Assessed

The assessor attends, photographs, measures and collects certificates. Records what exists.

Stage III
III

Lodged

The evidence pack supports the application lodged with the council.

Stage IV
IV

Audited

The council appoints an auditor — never the assessor's own firm — who verifies and signs off.

STRCAS does not issue the licence. The council does. STRCAS supplies the field capacity to document the property and the independent capacity to verify it — and never both on the same property.

The anchor

Anchored in South African compliance instruments.

Every finding cites the instrument and the clause it addresses. We maintain a live register of the framework as it changes — draft, gazetted, in force.

Read the framework
Instruments tracked

SA compliance framework

  • Tourism Act, 2014
  • Code of Good Practice (STRs)
  • Business Licensing Bill
  • CCT Rates Policy 2026/27
  • POPIA
  • SANS 10400 (Building)
Start a conversation

Tell us which side of the fence you're on.

Council, compliance company, or property professional — the conversation starts the same way, and we'll route you from there.