Real Estate has produced many of the world’s wealthy people, so there are plenty of reasons why property is a sound Investment. For every dollar you invest, you need to calculate what your return on that dollar will be, 10% is considered an excellent return on your investment, but working on 6 to 8% may be more realistic. Take note of the tips below before considering becoming a property tycoon.

Although it’s not hard to find a house with charm in Cape Town, especially in the City Bowl suburbs where pretty cottages, picturesque terrace houses and promising fixer-uppers are the rule rather than the exception, it still took Craig, a footwear importer and his partner Riekus Raaths, a graphic designer for an advertising agency, two years to find the right one. And even then at first glance they weren’t quite

A magical home blending many styles – text and production by Michael Nott – photography Alan Hageman, before photos courtesy of the owner   A blend of elements of European Gothic, Mediterranean, Moroccan and African styles sounds discordant and potentially incoherent and jarring. There’s certainly the possibility that a house that combined all these styles would end up as a jumble of mismatched and jarring elements that don’t sit comfortably