Hout bay in Cape Town, who's ever been there what a fantastic place
so many amazing places in cape town. If you haven't watched my channel
before it's RobGillT it's all about property it's all about Cape Town,
let's get to it i'm going to show you Hout Bay today
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So what's cool about Hout Bay what's a really interesting fact about Hout Bay, well you'll have
seen my last video where we were in Llundudno we looked around there and it was all about views and
there was no commercial property and et cetera et cetera et cetera, Sandy Bay the whole nine yards.
This one is of course completely opposite it's a little town, a little place to go, the
thing is when you're driving down into Hout Bay you can see on the left on the hill, a
massive informal settlement which grew and it has unfortunately detracted from the value
of the area and the attraction of the area. It was an elite spot in the past where people
would pay huge sums of money.............. well they still pay huge sums of money to live there
but unfortunately that has now also detracted from the value of the properties in the area,
because um obviously there's more..... I suppose crime there's noise there's fires there's
all kinds of stuff going on there so informal settlements are never good for an area
actually really really bad for an area because of the type of element that moves in there,
it's very poor people and you know you don't really want that living next to a mansion as
it causes problems it does cause issues. So anyway so you go into Hout bay
lekker stuff and as you go in, you go down you go through the town lovely little town
beautiful place beautiful houses there. Now...... the houses in Hout Bay are generally
four million around four and a half million Rand,and if it wasn't for
the settlement probably would have been eight nine million rand unfortunately
but that has detracted from the value. I have clients that have said to me they will
not move to Hout Bay because of that, and then I have clients that say to me it doesn't matter,
we don't mind it's perfect we'll go and live there still a good area still a safe area still not bad
and you can drive around there and walk around there it's not that bad okay.
So......... then down to the beach we go down there is a little place called mariner's wharf
mariner's wharf is a fantastic little spot where you can go and see the seals, enjoy ice cream and
there is a big fish restaurant that sort of thing. I see they fenced off the parking and that now
but, it's a lovely spot nice to go and visit if you're ever in Hout bay it's actually quite
lekker, and then we actually went past that and we went into the little fishing village
up on the side there um, where you know you can tell us a little fishing near village and
as we were turning in there there was a cop putting his siren on, and luckily it wasn't
for us it was for the motorbike behind us with no number plate or something to that effect so
not so bad, but if you go up through the fishing village and what not you can see how
they live there and what it's like I mean they're still on the coast this wonderful life you know
,not the wealthiest of areas of course because it's a fishing village but it's cute it's nice
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it's fun, obviously if you wanted to live in Hout bay and you were buying property and
that sort of thing most likely you're gonna buy it in the actual central Hout bay area itself
where the bigger four bedroom houses are, and the four million Rand houses are............that sort
of thing, and then I didn't take you up to the informal settlement or anything like that because
uh I have been up there before but there's nothing much to see if you go in there
it's a different tour on its own,........ it's it's for something completely different
or someone completely different, it's a different issue altogether
but if you go past that area you'll be going up into Constantia.
Constantia is a top area also very nice that's where your your wine farms,
and that sort of thing are, up in there the area they're very green very different to sort of the
Blouberg area and that sort of thing so.......... yeah every area has got its issues, I mean uh huh
Blouberg has an informal settlement called dunoon around the corner , but it's out of the way.
Unfortunately the Hout bay one is overlooking on the mountain overlooking Hout bay which
gives a little bit of a a bad look you know it doesn't look great and if you look at it doesn't
it kind of spoils the view unfortunately. People need to live somewhere and that's
how it goes and it's getting worse these days. If you've seen, because of all the things that
have happened in the economy ,there's people living in tents on the side of
the road now so can you imagine it's just getting completely out of hand and, one day
someone needs to sort it out and do something about it but yeah for now that's how it is.
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