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‘It’s a trend we’ve noticed in the past year or so,’ says Phil van Staden, Growing investment
general manager of Pezula Golf Estate’s homeowners association. Although it’s one of the older, more established estates on the
‘A growing number of younger families are buying on the estate, Garden Route, Pezula Golf Estate still has undeveloped stock, and
and coming to live here. They’re working remotely, and commuting some of the most attractive properties on the estate are available for
to the big centres only occasionally – which is relatively easy to do, purchase. These include two of the most exclusive – on The Cove,
with George Airport just 60 kilometres away, and Plett about 20. a private enclave of just five residential erven on the cliffs overlooking
the ocean. (The house on one of these vacant, available properties
‘As a young father myself [he has a child of two], I also feel incredibly
was demolished after it was gutted by the Knysna Fires of June 2017.)
safe living here.’
In all, the 250-hectare estate is laid out with 417 private properties,
And, he said, this sense of feeling safe at Pezula Golf Estate is of which 272 have already been developed – and the architectural
only going to grow. ‘Even though we haven’t had a single major committee is currently busy reviewing around a dozen sets of plans
incident since the estate was launched, we’re now in the process for homes to be built in the near future.
of upgrading our security system to incorporate the very latest
technology – and we’re building it on the high-speed fibre network About 100 of the houses are permanently occupied, and many
that already serves all the homes.’ of the others belong to ‘swallows’ – European citizens who live in
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