Estate Living Magazine Investment - Issue 34 October 2018 | Page 18

Heritage Estate’s location is a primary drawcard. It’s near Greenstone and Stoneridge shopping malls, Busamed Hospital, close to major highways and roads, and is easily accessible from Sandton, OR Tambo International Airport and the East Rand. Linbro Park Linbro Park could have up to 16,000 residential units on offer by 2019, according to Ingle. ‘Residential and agricultural plots in Linbro Park, measuring between one and two hectares each, have doubled in value, and property prices indicate a 300% increase over the past decade,’ he says. Close to Marlboro Gautrain station, The Reid offers one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments that include appliances, solar-supplemented electricity, prepaid electricity and water meters, and a lifestyle centre with cutting-edge leisure and sport facilities. A one-bedroom unit here starts at R719,000, and a three-bedroom unit starts at around R1.5 million. Ingle says: Road and service upgrades in Linbro Park are well under way, and construction has begun on several new entrances along the K113 from Westlake into Linbro Park. Smaller residential Along Clulee Road, Balwin Properties launched The Reid, a complex of approximately 1,800 residential units in Linbro Park West. developers are also active in Linbro Park, with planned sectional title developments of several hundred units each to be launched in the near future. In addition, retail and office opportunities are also being explored along Clulee and Oak avenues in the centre of Linbro. ‘We recently sold a Linbro Park property to the Methodist Church of South Africa, so it seems that all the elements of a thriving new community are coming together,’ says Ingle. Helen Grange Westlake Eco-Estate Westlake Eco-Estate 16 | www.estate-living.co.za