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Gauteng property guide

Province overview

It may be the smallest of the nine provinces but Gauteng is definitely home to some of the most sought-after properties in the country. Properties in Gauteng is as varied as its residents - from inner-city apartments to country style small holdings and family homes in leafy suburbs. With many new residential property developments springing up all over the province it is worth the effort to expand your search to newer areas.

Economic prospects in Gauteng ensure that there is a steady influx of workers looking for employment which means that rental properties are in high demand in the metropolitan areas. With the construction of Gautrain many tenants now can extend their searches into other areas which are serviced by the Gautrain bus services.

Quick Facts

  • Gauteng is the home of the Cradle of Humankind (a Unesco World Heritage Site where some of the world's oldest humanoid fossils have been found)
  • A large variety of historical attractions that trace the history of South Africa like the Apartheid Museum, Constitution Hill, Lillie's Farm, Hector Peterson Museum and Nelson Mandela House, Blaauwbank Historic Gold Mine, Freedom Park and the Origins Centre in Johannesburg is located in the province.
  • The city of Johannesburg was rebuilt four times in the span of one century. It started out as a tented camp. Then it was a town of tin shanties. Next it was a town filled with four-storey Edwardian brick buildings and finally, it became a city of modern skyscrapers.
  • Vilakazi Street in Soweto is famous for having 2 Nobel Prize-winning residents. Former South African president Nelson Mandela and former Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu lived on this street.
  • Tshwane is the administrative seat of the South African government boasting of the second-largest concentration of foreign embassies in the world after Washington, DC
  • The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site has delivered more than 900 cataloged fossil hominid specimens. The Sterkfontein excavation has been active since 1966, making it the world’s longest sustained palaeoanthropological excavation.
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Market & Opinion
Is it still a good time to purchase a property?
02 Mar 2023
With the escalation of the Eskom energy crisis and concerns about the economic impact on the already higher interest rate and cost of living concerns, the question arises as to whether it is still a good time to purchase a property.
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Market & Opinion
South Africa's Major Metro Housing Markets See Increase in Sales Despite National Slowdown
20 Feb 2023
Dr. Andrew Golding, CEO of the Pam Golding Property group, notes that although unit sales in South Africa's national housing market are slowing down, there has been a significant increase in sales in the five major metros during the post-pandemic period. Dr. Golding explains that if we exclude the 2021 rebound, or split those sales equally between 2020 and 2021, then the number of sales last year (2022) was the highest recorded in the past decade.
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