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cape town architecture

Take the Plunge – Cape Town Architecture

Due to its unique topography and stunning geographic location, Cape Town boasts some extraordinary feats of architecture and design, and many of these are situated along its Atlantic Seaboard. From glass houses held aloft by dizzyingly tall stilts to rotating driveways and infinity pools that appear to flow directly into the Atlantic Ocean, there are…

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Property Trends on the Atlantic Seaboard

The property cycle follows a predictable pattern. Boom, followed by a Slump, followed by a Recovery. In a boom phase, people believe it won’t last and act quickly. Prices rise, property finance is easy to obtain, the time it takes to sell a property is relatively quick. In a slump phase, people only realise it…

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Winchester Mansions Sea Point Cape Town

Three Grande Dames

The hospitality industry is notoriously fickle, and perhaps nowhere more so than in Cape Town with its ‘swallows’, influx of tourists and jet-setting locals who are spoilt for choice and move onto the next new thing quicker than you can say ‘trend.’ For this reason, the institutions that have stood the test of time and…

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Clifton Beach Cape Town

Sunsets and Sashimi

‘This is just like Monaco!’ exclaims my guest from Denmark as we drive along Victoria Road past another Lamborghini parked casually on the shoulder of the road. To our right, yachts anchored off Clifton 4th sparkle brightly against the deep blue sea and all you see for miles around is another endless summer. For Capetonians…

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