Personal Lifestyle Concierge

29/10/2026

One of the most common misconceptions among homeowners is that they need to pay off their home loan before they can sell their property. That is simply not the case.

Knowing your financial position before listing helps you make better decisions about pricing,...

24/10/2026

20/10/2026

Thomas Bain and his father built many of the remarkable roads that still carry us over the Cape’s mountains. So News24 Outdoors contributor Andrew Thompson used an algorithm to find the optimal round trip linking nine of the best, covering 1 585km of mountain roads, gravel, and Karoo highways, int...

15/10/2026

11/10/2026

Why the Western Cape’s flowers arrived so early this year

Why the Western Cape’s flowers arrived so early this year

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04/10/2026

The City is refreshing road markings across approximately 276 km of roads in Cape Town.
Work has started in the C*D and will progressively move to Green Point, Sea Point, Woodstock, Salt River, Observatory, Pinelands and other identified areas until 28 February 2027.
Road lines, stop lines, pedestrian crossings and speed-hump markings will be refreshed, with temporary lane closures in some areas.
Motorists are urged to follow temporary traffic signs and give road crews space to work safely.

🚧 The City is refreshing road markings across approximately 276 km of roads in Cape Town.

Work has started in the C*D and will progressively move to Green Point, Sea Point, Woodstock, Salt River, Observatory, Pinelands and other identified areas until 28 February 2027.

Road lines, stop lines, pedestrian crossings and speed-hump markings will be refreshed, with temporary lane closures in some areas.

Motorists are urged to follow temporary traffic signs and give road crews space to work safely.

🔗 Read more: https://brnw.ch/21x60Uz

30/09/2026

Your house has probably been a poor investment in recent years, unless you live in the Western Cape. Does the old adage “location, location, location” still ring true when it comes to how much money South Africans are making on residential bricks and mortar? Absolutely. That much is clear from the latest housing data from various industry players which reflect an ever-widening gap in the performance of different regions.
Unsurprisingly, the Western Cape — Cape Town in particular — continues to lead the pack in terms of house price growth. In fact, research from independent economist John Loos shows that the Western Cape and Northern Cape (albeit to a far lesser degree) are the only two provinces where homeowners have seen inflation-beating capital growth since 2010. Loos’s analysis of Stats SA’s house price indices, which he adjusted using CPI inflation, shows that the other provinces all recorded inflation-adjusted declines over the past 16 years.

Western Cape property outpaces other provinces while Joburg stagnates