Blouberg, Blaauwberg, Cape Town – South Africa

Melkbosstrand residents fear that the provincial government’s sudden approval of the rezoning of a beachfront residential property will devalue other properties in the area, affect the safety of their children and increase traffic congestion, notes the Cape Times.
They are questioning why – more than two years after they objected to the application – the MEC [...]

Despite the tougher trading conditions in the property market, Pam Golding Properties has reported a resurgence of activity in the Cape metro area, with numerous key sales concluded during the month of April 2008. This comes despite the fact that the approach of winter and the April school holidays usually herald a slowdown in the [...]

A NEW model in property investment has hit the Cape Town market.
Realcor Cape has taken a bold step in a new direction by offering buyers shares in its new hotel at the development costs.
“We’ve undertaken to create a business model that works both for Realcor as well as for the investors by going into partnership [...]

One of the last available plots with arguably the best view of Table Mountain is up for sale for a whopping R9.6 million.
The 894m2 plot in Bloubergstrand is in Stadler Street only metres from the beach and faces Table Mountain.
The plot is zoned for a single residential building with a height of eight metres and [...]

The City of Cape Town has purchased two volatile organic compound analysers to monitor air quality for substances like benzene and toluene.
One of these analysers will be installed near the Chevron oil refinery in Milnerton and the second analyser installed at a monitoring station in Cape Town’s central business district.
“Through this the analysers will alert [...]

The City of Cape Town has completed its first supplementary valuation roll of more than 20 000 properties since the general valuation of July 2.
The values reflected on this roll are for those properties that were incorrectly omitted from the general valuation roll, for new buildings, those subdivided or consolidated, significantly over or under-valued or [...]

THE rights of existing Milnerton residents should be protected before that of new residents, and the law should be on the side of law-abiding citizens.
In plain language, the Milnerton Residents Association (MRA) will in future concentrate on overall strategy and tactics for resolving problems with the council, itinerant residents and illegal businesses.
“As homeowners we wish [...]

Construction is under way on Aquarius, a 14-storey residential and commercial building that will form part of the vision of an architectural portal to the Table View/Blouberg beachfront.The building at the junction of Blaauwberg Road and the shoreline road, Otto du Plessis Drive, rises from a 2 000 square metre site next to Horizon Bay, [...]