Now is your chance for a rare Clifton site

● One of the last vacant sites available in Clifton, on the Cape’s Atlantic seaboard, is one of over 70 properties which come under the virtual hammer at BidX1 South Africa’s first online auction, on April 10.

This first catalogue includes properties in prime locations around SA, from the Vaal River, Midrand and Centurion to the Western Cape, Garden Route, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, says MC du Toit, CEO, Auctions & Sales, for BidX1 SA.

“With sweeping views across Clifton and the ocean, this prime, elevated 455m² site includes architecturally designed plans available for the successful bidder.”

Other prized properties in the Western Cape up for grabs include a four-bedroom, four-bathroom house in upmarket Benguela Cove Estate, a secure, private wine estate between Kleinmond and Hermanus. With panoramic views over the Botrivier lagoon and Kogelberg mountains, this home is set on a generous erf of 2,037m².

In the scenic Balgowan area of the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, there are several sites for sale that provide potentially lucrative investment opportunities.

Close to some of SA’s best private schools such as Hilton, Michaelhouse and St Anne’s, and close to the Bosch Hoek Golf Club, one site includes an entire eco-estate comprising 44.33ha, complete with a four-bedroom, all en-suite designer home plus eight fully serviced stands ready to build, all overlooking two freshwater dams.

Accessible from the N3 linking Durban and Johannesburg, this site is bordered by Hilton, Hidcote, Dargle Valley and Curry’s Post.

In Houghton, in Johannesburg, properties in upmarket Houghton Estate, just 5km north of Johannesburg’s city centre, are also up for sale. One is a four-bedroom, threebathroom manor house set on a large erf of 4,556m².

The property includes a home office, three garages, undercover braai area and swimming pool.

Further properties of interest include a vacant plot in a golf estate in George; a fivebedroom house in surfers’ paradise Jeffreys Bay; and, 23km outside Nelspruit in Mpumalanga and next to Emoyeni Mall, a 173ha parcel of land ideal for mixed-use development — with indications that some 1,600 residential opportunities can be created.

Other properties include a four-bedroom house in historic Franschhoek in the heart of the Cape winelands; Breede River Lodge in Witsand, dubbed the whale nursery of SA, on the Cape south coast; a spacious home in Hartbeespoort in Gauteng; a four-bedroom house within walking distance of the beach in East London; a house in Centurion and a vacant stand in Port Alfred.

In addition, a number of bank properties in various locations are also available for purchase on auction.