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Regardless of whether you have a will or not, your estate will still need to be administered when you pass away, and this will be overseen by an executor. However, when you pass away without a valid will (intestate), your assets will be distributed to your heirs based on the Intestate Succession Act no 81 of 1987. Therefore, if your property is portioned into a few inheritances then the executor of your estate has the authority to sell it and distribute the proceeds to the various heirs or the executor may sell it in order to cover outstanding debts and taxes due, should there be little or no liquidity in your estate. Your descendants, however, could decide how to distribute their joint inheritance. If they decide to co-own the property, then it will be transferred into all their names.