Alexander Swart now servicing clients far and wide
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Certain Alexander Swart Property estate agents have grabbed at the opportunity to work outside of the Brackenfell and Kraaifontein precincts to which they were previously consigned when the 40 man/woman agency operated as a Rawson Property Group franchise.
We are on our way to meeting our new goal of R1 billion turnover within 30 months, said Rowan Alexander, Director of the new Cape Town Northern Suburbs estate agency Alexander Swart Property.
Stefan Engelke has been one of the agents to respond enthusiastically to the new challenges. In the first six weeks of working under the new arrangement he secured mandates for the sale of a home in Parklands at R 1,199,000 and an apartment in Burgundy Estate at R825,000, a home in Kleinmond at R 4,995,000 and a prestigious mountainside home in Gordons Bay at R 4,195,000.
The Gordons Bay home, says Engelke, has a controversial history, but is one of the iconic mountainside properties in the area, all of which have spectacular views of False Bay.
The Sunday newspaper Rapport ran a story (which was taken up by Huisgenoot) on the owner’s background. He and his wife claimed to be Belgian aristocrats and he himself to be a counter terrorist expert as well as an accomplished violinist and the inventor of a machine to detect false diamonds. He was, he said, a member of several important counter-terror organizations. However Rapport ascertained that he had, in fact, come from Parow and had attended school there and at De Tygerberg. The home was seized by the Sheriff acting on instructions from the court following an action by Standard Bank for non-payment of loans. It has now been taken over by a liquidation company who have refurbished it entirely.
The original home was said to have bullet proof glass and an underground bunker (this has not been confirmed), but, says Engelke, now that the refurbishment is almost complete the home, which stood empty and neglected for 18 months and became an eyesore in Gordons Bay, has now come onto the market at a price of R4,195 million. This, he says, is exceptionally good value because the refurbishment has completely reinstated the good looks and the luxury ambience of the home and mountainside properties in this area have in recent years been very much sought after by both SA and overseas buyers.
For further information contact Rowan Alexander on 082 581 3116 or Stefan Engelke on 082 381 0687
Author: Independent author
