Kenilworth Upper - Sectional Title Market Update | September 2025
Category Market Update
September saw a slight uptick in market activity in your part of the world.
Propstats recorded two sectional title sales in Kenilworth Upper during the month of September.
I brokered both sales resulting in my market share for the month of September being !00%.
The first occurred at Pine Place that is located on the corner of Main and Pine Road, on the border with Claremont.
This is a 45 sqm, one bedroom, loft style apartment and presents well.
Pine Place offers sound security systems, a residents swimming pool and braai area. The apartment was sold together with a covered parking bay.
This unit sold for R1 625 000.
A sale in this amount represents R36 111.00 per square metre and is the highest price paid, per square metre, at Pine Place.
The second sale occurred at Greenfields, a small townhouse estate in Greenfields Road.
This 229 sqm home presented beautifully offering:
- Four bedrooms
- 2.5 bathrooms
- Two reception rooms
- Very slick kitchen leading to utilities room and providing direct access to a double garage.
- Carporting for a further two vehicles.
- Storeroom.
- Residents swimming pool
I brokered the sale of the property for R4 700 000, being the highest price paid for a unit at Greenfields and some R700 000.00 more than the most recent sale at the estate that was concluded just four months prior.
This represents just on 97% of the asking price.
Of interest to note is that I procured another offer on the property - at full asking price. That offer was however subject to and conditional upon the purchasers being granted permission to keep their dog at the property.
Greenfields is one of those estates where there is a zero-tolerance of pets which stance is clearly entrenched in the conduct rules.
As a result, and despite it being an appreciably higher offer, my seller reluctantly had to decline this offer.
The pet in question is a 14-year-old Border Collie with hip dysplasia.
I understand that the Trustees of Greenfields are contemplating a relaxation of this rule to better align with the stated position of CSOS and recent case law.
This served to illustrate how a rigid stance insofar as pets are concerned can and does compromise a sale.
The CSOS position is that a blanket ban on pets is not valid and that Trustees ought to apply their minds to the particularities of each application to keep a pet and to make a decision based on a subjective consideration of the application and of the particular pet.
The guiding principle with pets is one of managing nuisance to others. My submission is that a consideration of each application to keep a pet, based on the singular merits of each application is a far more equitable approach and takes into account the interests of all residents.
Permission to keep a pet, deemed appropriate by the Trustees, can also come with conditions and sanctions should a pet subsequently prove to compromise the lives and peace of mind of other residents - with the removal of the offending pet as a last resort.
Author: Sean Guy
