Cape Town’s Southern Suburbs has long been a popular residential area, especially with families looking to live near good schools and amenities but a spike in demand in the fourth quarter of 2022 driven by semigration has further fuelled the market with stock shortages looming in many suburbs.

Prior to the disruption of the pandemic, semigration toward the coast was on the rise and since the end of lockdown, there’s not only been a resurgence in the migration tide, but also a steady upward trajectory of property inflation in these areas during the past 12 months.