Somerset West property guide

Local and international buyers are rediscovering South Africa’s beautiful small towns with their often top-quality lifestyle, and locations not too far from bigger towns or cities

Such is the surge in demand for student accommodation in the university town of Stellenbosch in the Cape Winelands, that investors – and parents – are snapping up units in sectional title developments designed to cater to this lucrative market.

The demand from semigration buyers for property across the Cape continues at pace and it is unlikely that semigration to the Cape will lose steam, says Samuel Seeff, chairman of the Seeff Property Group. It may slow down, but only due to buyers being hamstrung by an inability to sell their houses elsewhere in the country.