Our lead story this month, Western Cape is the first choice for semigrants, highlights a residential property trend which has accelerated in the Covid-19 era – middle class homeowners are opting to semigrate to coastal and country areas, mostly in the Western Cape.
Estates have proved particularly attractive to many of those semigrating. In this edition, Estate living in Mbombela and Sectional Title and Estate properties find favour on KZN North Coast, confirms a steady growth in preference, since 1994, for Sectional Title and Estate living. A sense of community, safety and the benefits of “lock up and go” living are the main reasons behind the shift in preference.
Lightstone’s data is also helping the insurance industry anticipate risk and manage it better. Our story How data helps mitigate risk demonstrates how data is increasingly being used
to help the insurance industry better underwrite and price its property risk exposures.
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