Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa November 2014 | Page 32

TRENDS

BY TONY CLARKE

SA’s Middle Class’

Property Tastes
A trend to watch

M

iddle class South Africans are believed by
some to be garden lovers who spend a fair
amount of weekend time relaxing on patios
or beside pools – right? Well, perhaps not.
This is no longer true of quite a large percentage of
middle class South Africans. We find today a fairly
high percentage of buyers actually do not want