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ref244 Modern Waterfront
•  Newly built home situated on the Main Marina – spectacular views With high quality finishes’
•  3 Spacious Bedrooms 
•  2 Bathrooms MES with imported fittings + Guest toilet with blue mosaic tiles
•  Spacious lounge with  frameless glass concertina doors to the marina
•  Open plan Kitchen with  eyelevel oven + gas hob
•  Family room upstairs with frameless glass concertina doors to balcony overlooking the marina
•  Fans throughout
•  Extra Double garage with automated doors
•  Furniture inclusive

THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE YOU CAN WALK FOR KILOMETRES ON THE BEACH,

AND WHERE YOU CAN SWIM SAFELY,

WHERE YOU CAN LIVE WITHOUT FEAR FOR CRIME,

WHERE YOU CAN WATCH THE WHALES FROM TIME TO TIME,

WHERE THE DOLPHINS SWIM,

WHERE THE BIRDS ENJOY THE FREEDOM OF NATURE,

WHERE YOU CAN WATCH THE SMALL BUCKS GRAZE IN THE NEARBY VELD,

WHERE YOU CAN SEA THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SUNSETS,

WHERE YOU CAN BUY STANDS FROM R295 000 AND SEAFRONT STANDS FROM R950 000.

THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN RETIRE OR JUST ESCAPE FROM THE CITY LIFE ON WEEKENDS, 170KM FROM CAPE TOWN.

THIS IS A JEWEL OF THE WEST COAST – KERSBOSSTRAND AND DOLFYNSTRAND!

Mount Pleasant-upmarket furnished bachelor flat for R1950.00 P.M., available on the 1st of august. Please call 041 3681285 during office hours or Genevieve at 082 498 6827 for viewing. Thanks

This grand lifestyle smallholding on 9,5 ha of pristine fynbos, with seaviews throughout. Ideal for Christian retreat, or bed and breakfast, consisting of 2 Guest houses, with numerous bedrooms, plus a 2 bed cottage, overlooking 2 beautiful dams. Direct access to the sea through a nature reserve.Quiet and serene

Selling game farms and hunting farms is what we do at African Showcase Realtors. But marketing a hunting concession on a private farm is new for us and is possibly a first in South Africa.

On offer is a US$ 420 000 concession to hunt on a top Eastern Cape farm for 5 to 8 years. The investor and his guests stand to make a 10% annual return on investment through discounted game prices. Furthermore the investor will be assured of 4-star accommodation on-site during hunting trips (quality of accommodation close to hunting locations is a bugbear with many overseas hunters). The owner of the farm, who plans to use the concession income for game fencing, purchasing more game and upgrading the lodge, believes that potential investors who might otherwise have considered buying a game farm in South Africa might prefer this route as they get to enjoy the benefits without taking on the risk and hassle of running a farm.

Read more about this ground-breaking marketing intiative here.

In a good news development for the South African real estate industry,  Skilpad.Com Property Portal has announced that South African estate agencies may list their properties for free on the portal on an ongoing basis.

Skilpad.Com is the fastest-growing property portal in South Africa, with some 80 000 property listings at the time of writing, and is a leader in innovative property advertising and searching technology.  Free listing on Skilpad.Com is therefore a valuable opportunity for estate agencies to secure quality advertising exposure without any additional cost. Advertising is a major expense for real estate professionals and many agencies have been forced to cut back on adspend due to the current tough market conditions.

In response to enquiries from estate agencies, Skilpad.Com spokesman Andre Viljoen has confirmed that the portal’s free listing offer is not for a trial period only but is a cornerstone of the company’s long-term business model. “We are committed to expanding the portal both in terms of the number of listings and the amount of relevant features and content. Keeping listing free for estate agencies will assist us in our vision of empowering property buyers with a website which will offer all of the properties and all of the resources they need in order to make informed purchases.”

Easy registration procedure

Estate agencies who wish to get their listings up and running on Skilpad.Com can do so by registering online by clicking on the “Estate Agents>Register” link and completing the quick registration form. Estate agency groups who wish to register can contact Andre at andre@skilpad.com or 083 309 7030.  Agencies can choose between automatic listing, in which their properties are automatically added to the portal and updated daily, or manual listing via a control panel, which is ideal for agencies who wish to add selected properties only or those who do not currently have a website.

Skilpad.Com was developed by a Port Elizabeth-based team and launched nationally in July 2008. A few of the industry-leading innovations introduced since then are simple tools for adding video clips to listings via Internet or cellphone, a highly effective mobile search (at http://mobile.skilpad.com) and an interesting interactive property map search (at www.skilpad.com/mapsearch.php).

Many more new features are scheduled for addition to add value to the free property listing platform. In the future the portal will offer various value-added services that estate agents may choose to use for a fee.

 Purchase this property, with newly placed 
 Tenants, lease contract signed for 2 years @ R10,000
 per month,and invest in a beautiful home, comprising of:
 Main upstairs bedroom with  en suite bathroom
 and private deck, 2 large bedrooms with full family    
 bathroom, well equipped modern kitchen and dinning area 
 large entertainment with braai area and beautiful pool,
 overlooking mountain and sea views.Double garage
 Contact us on 021 557 -6150  well worth viewing.

Fine&Country this week became the first national real estate group in South Africa to list property from all of its offices on the Skilpad.Com, South Africa’s fastest growing property portal.

The group of independent property agencies (see www.fineandcountry.co.za ) specialises in quality South African property and forms part of the international Fine&Country Group with its headquarters in London

While Fine&Country is the first national group to list en-masse on Skilpad-Com, a growing number of offices of other leading estate agency groups and independent agencies are represented on the portal. At the time of writing, there are more than 45 000 properties for sale or to rent on Skilpad.Com and the number is growing daily.

Estate agents who list properties on Skilpad.Com are automatically entitled to post news or articles on this blog. Here is how: Log in to your control panel, click on “My Reports” and “Add Article” and away you go.

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