Scenic views and upmarket living will continue to lure semigrants from the north of South Africa to the Western Cape in 2026. A continuation of this trend is among the several established patterns in the country, while several new insights are shedding light on South Africa’s dynamic property market. One gender is outstripping their counterparts, an international age-related trend in being replicated locally and less is more for some changing their surroundings.
Here are the major trends in property-related movement expected in 2026: One of the major discrepancies experienced by those selling their Gauteng properties to move to Cape Town is the comparable value of the homes. Three-bedroom housescurrently on the marketin Tokai range between R3 and R6 million. Four or five-bedroom houses in Rondebosch hover around the R10 million mark, while similarly sized homes in Constantia may easily be double that mark.
“They obviously have to prepare themselves for that little bit of a shock when they get here; that the value is seen differently here in the Cape,” Nick Pearson, Principal of Tyson Properties Southern Suburbs in Cape Town, toldThe Citizen. Pearson also warned those considering Cape Town as their next address to do thorough research on the city’s areas. “Everyone paints the Western Cape with the same brush, but there are starkly different neighbourhoods that are in close proximity to one another.
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