Advice
Guides & insights
Straight advice on buying, selling, renting and investing in Cape Town, from people who do it every day.
Affordability, bond pre-approval, choosing an area and making an offer that holds.
Read →Selling your homeOur five steps from valuation to transfer, and how to price so it sells.
Read →Costs & compliance certificatesTransfer duty, attorney fees and the certificates a Cape Town sale needs.
Read →Investing in propertyRental yield, capital growth and how to judge an investment before you buy.
Read →Letting & rentingFor landlords and tenants: leases, deposits, inspections and your rights.
Read →Market insights: the JournalOne story a week on prices, rates and what is selling in our areas.
Read →How we read the market
Every listing, viewing, offer and sale our agents handle is recorded as it happens, alongside deeds-office sales and portal data.
Suburb by suburb, street by street. A Constantia average tells you little about your road in Plumstead.
What the numbers mean for your decision: the price to ask, the offer to make, or whether to wait.
What we track each week
- Price movements by suburb and type of home, asking and achieved.
- Sales volumes and time on market: how quickly homes are selling, and at what discount to asking.
- Interest rates and affordability: what each rate move does to a typical repayment.
- Rental performance: rents, vacancies and yields.
- Semigration: who is moving to the Western Cape, and where they are buying.
- New developments and rezoning that will change an area.