Sunset Beach, Cape Town. Photo: Phumzile Phala, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
A real house, on the market today, high on the Schotschekloof slope: the mountain out the front window, the City Bowl below, salt air off the bay. South Africa has one of the most beautiful coastlines on earth and an average house price of about $119,000, and almost nobody outside the country has noticed. We find the beautiful ones, price them in dollars, and send them to you.
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9 of 9 homes match · Anywhere in South Africa · any price · any size
$1 = R16.3217 · ECB, 2026-07-10
$143,980
R2 350 000 asking
Three bedrooms and three bathrooms a few minutes from the Cape Town CBD, laid out so a part of it can be let separately while you live in the rest.
R19 583/m² vs feed median R21 201/m²
$147,044
R2 400 000 asking
A 36 m² cottage high on the Schotschekloof slopes of the historic Bo-Kaap, looking across the City Bowl to Table Mountain, Devil's Peak and Lion's Head. You are buying the position, not the floor area, and the card below says so plainly.
The per-m² read misses this one. The value here is the view and the position, not the floor area.
$153,109
R2 499 000 asking
A family house on a 497 m² erf with two self-contained flatlets already standing. The rent-against-the-bond arithmetic works before you renovate anything.
R22 115/m² vs feed median R21 201/m²
$202,185
R3 300 000 asking
Renovated and move-in ready inside a secure estate on the warm-water side of the country, where the sea is swimmable in July.
R23 077/m² vs feed median R21 201/m²
$244,766
R3 995 000 asking
A level 960 m² stand, near enough a quarter-acre, in the middle of Ballito, walking distance from the sea.
R22 194/m² vs feed median R21 201/m²
$303,277
R4 950 000 asking
A contemporary house facing a greenbelt in Yzerfontein, an hour up the cold Atlantic coast from Cape Town, where the fishing boats still go out.
R20 287/m² vs feed median R21 201/m²
$336,975
R5 500 000 asking
450 m² of double-storey house on the Clarence Drive coast, wedged between the mountain and False Bay. It has been listed since March 2025, and a home that has sat that long is precisely the kind we want you to know about.
R12 222/m² vs feed median R21 201/m²
$373,736
R6 100 000 asking
366 m² under roof on a 1,032 m² stand in Tanglewood Estate, built around the pool and the entertaining.
R16 667/m² vs feed median R21 201/m²
$468,701
R7 650 000 asking
Inside a private nature-reserve estate, roughly 400 m from the beach. The agency published no floor size, so we will not score this one. We would rather show you a blank than a number we made up.
Not scored. The agency published no floor size, and we do not invent one.
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Sources: every home above is a live listing on Property24, verified 2026-07-12 and shown with its P24 reference and its own listing photography. Dollar prices convert at European Central Bank reference rate, via frankfurter.dev, 2026-07-10 ($1 = R16.3217) and will drift with the rand. A listing that goes under offer or sells is pulled within 24 hours.
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