- Security estates in Tshwane under R1.25 million: the honest shortlist
Seeff's 2025 numbers put the typical estate sectional-title sale in Tshwane between R1.8 million and R3.8 million — and estates took 20.5% of all sales in the metro last year.…
- Bond declined? Nearly half get approved at another bank. Do this next
A bond decline letter feels like the end of the road. It isn't: ooba's Q1 2026 numbers show 45.5% of applications declined by one bank are approved by another, and I've watched…
- Montana school fees 2026: all 9 schools within 10km, compared (drives timed)
I spent a Tuesday morning in May driving from the Roodepark boom gate to every school within 10km with a stopwatch running — Hoërskool Montana took 9 minutes at 07:05, queue…
- Two bedrooms or three? We walked both Roodepark plans with a tape measure
Here's the thing that surprises almost everyone at the show house: the 3 Bed 2 Bath Luxury Plus costs exactly the same as the 2 Bed + Study Luxury Study — R1,239,000 either…
- The school run from Roodepark, timed: out the gate at 06:50, back by 07:00
Out the Roodepark boom at 06:50, Laerskool Die Poort drop-off three minutes and eighteen seconds later, and back inside the estate before 07:00. I had my phone's stopwatch on…
- The real number you pay every month at Roodepark, itemised
Your bond instalment is the headline number, not the debit-order total. So here's every rand that leaves your account in an ordinary month at Roodepark — levy, rates, prepaid…
- Your NHBRC cover, explained: what's protected for 3 months, 1 year and 5 years
Every new home in South Africa comes with a statutory warranty most buyers never read. It covers three different things for three different lengths of time — and knowing which…
- Is Montana, Pretoria North a good place to live? An honest local answer
Buyers ask me this at every show day, usually quietly, once their partner has wandered off to look at the kitchen. Here's the same answer I gave my own cousin in March — with…
- Property stokvels in South Africa: how they work, real examples, and the numbers to check before you join
Around eleven million South Africans save through stokvels, moving roughly R50 billion a year — and property is where the ambitious groups are pointing next. If your group is…
- Sectional title vs full title for buy-to-let: yields, levies and surprise repairs, compared
TPN's rental monitor puts sectional-title gross yields at 10.79% against 7.52% for freestanding houses — a gap too big for any buy-to-let beginner to ignore. It is also a gross…
- Buy-to-let in South Africa: a numbers-first guide to your first rental property
TPN's latest Residential Rental Monitor says 83% of South African tenants are in good standing — and the best-performing rent band in the country is exactly where a new…
- Section 13sex in plain language: the 5-unit rule, what you can write off, and what SARS actually requires
Section 13sex lets a landlord write off 5% of the cost of new residential units every year for 20 years — but only once you own five of them, and almost nobody buying their…
- Is property still a good investment in South Africa? What the 2026 numbers say
Absa's Homeowner Sentiment Index has 72% of South Africans positive about buying property, yet rental escalations are cooling — so here is the honest 2026 scoreboard, line by…
