In a chancing market or let me say in a buyers market you need to make a significant first impression. And a first impression you only can create once! With a big pool of houses to choose from buyers need to remember your house ……………. in a positive way.
Generally, buyers are not good at analyzing [...]
Situated in a quiet and small security complex this is a great house in Somerset West to either scale down or to start as a property owner. The complex in Somerset Ridge has got easy access to Cape Town and Stellenbosch. Somerset Mall and the new and popular Waterstone Village shopping center [...]
Personal Safety Tips With ADT
With the holiday season fast approaching, we are left with many decisions and preparations to make before packing our trailers and making our way to our holiday destinations. Ensuring the security of family and property is a key priority at this time.”Statistics clearly show that criminal activity increases during the holiday [...]
AUGUST 2007
Dear Sir/Madam
Helderberg Development Centre funding request
The Helderberg Development Centre (HDC), a training NGO situated in the town core of Somerset West in the Western Cape, has been operating successfully for the past five years in training unemployed semi-skilled persons, and finding employment for over 90% of the more than 110 learners who annually complete [...]
As courses in Europe and the USA become more exclusive and expensive, South Africa, an overnight flight with no jet lag, offers a great new alternative for a winter break. Somerset West has seen a huge increase in tourism and has more recently been ranked in the top ten most popular cities in the world.
Many professionals [...]
Wow ……………………… what my husband and myself do miss from Europe is France. We went for a long weekend let’s say 2 times maybe even 3 times a year. From where we lived near Rotterdam it was a 6 hours drive to the Beaujolais / Bourgogne area.
Then we spent our days buying wine [...]
YOU ONLY HAVE ONE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION, SO MAKE IT COUNT!
Staging of your home is one of the best ways for a seller to achieve the desired result of selling his or her home for maximum value.
One of the biggest challenges for every homeowner is that “you have invested many years of wonderful [...]
2007/12/04
Eskom’s latest warning that load shedding will be with us for at least another seven years indicates that the energy efficiency efforts in the 2006 crisis were not merely a once-off attempt.
Energy efficiency now has to become a way of life.
This is the message from the Cape Town Partnership’s chief executive, Andrew Boraine, commenting on [...]
The previous managers of Somerset West’s Divine restaurant and Willowbrook lodge Anton & Ed started their own restaurant. On the R44 from Somerset West towards Stellenbosch right turnoff Klein Helderberg Road, just at the back of Belair, are they running the restaurant Taste. Since 15 October 2007 are they welcoming their guest and most of the times their friends as [...]
2007/12/04
Estate agents are legally bound to report “suspicious or unusual behaviour” by clients in terms of South Africa’s money laundering and tax evasion laws.
Accordingly, clients need to be both patient and accommodating when their agent requests answers and documentation to support a transaction, says Mike Bester, CEO of Realty 1 International Property Group.
Yet, he adds, [...]