By town
Retirement Villages · Montana Tuine, Centurion, Montana & Pretoria North
Central Developments estate in Montana Tuine with houses and apartments from about R995,000 and on-site care facilities, on the northern edge of Pretoria.
Retirement Villages · Louwlardia, near Midstream, Centurion, Montana & Pretoria North
New Central Developments estate for over-50s in the Midstream node of Centurion, with apartments from about R1.19 million and Mediclinic Midstream five minutes away.
Retirement Villages · North Riding, Johannesburg Northern Suburbs
Sectional-title retirement estate in North Riding for over-50s with a 30-bed frail care centre, doctors' rooms, heated pool, restaurant and a 2.7 ha wetland green belt.
Old Age Homes · Craighall Park, Johannesburg Northern Suburbs
Long-established Craighall Park village with life-right cottages, a main building of single and shared rooms with meals, and frail and high care. Publishes its prices.
Retirement Villages · Edenvale / Lyndhurst, Bedfordview, Edenvale & the East Rand
Rand Aid's 223-unit life-right village on 13 hectares beside the Jukskei, with cottages and apartments for over-65s and the Ron Smith Care Centre on the same property.
Retirement Villages · Broadacres, Johannesburg Northern Suburbs
Evergreen life-right village in Broadacres with houses and suites from about R800,000, a lifestyle centre with heated pool and gym, and assisted living for apartment residents.
Retirement Villages · Faerie Glen, Pretoria East
Renaissance retirement village in Faerie Glen with independent and assisted living apartments, close to Menlyn, Netcare Pretoria East and Life Faerie Glen hospital.
Retirement Villages · Featherbrooke, Krugersdorp, Roodepoort, Krugersdorp & the West Rand
493-unit sectional-title estate for over-50s near Krugersdorp with a 30-bed frail care facility, home-based care, dining room, salon, shop and doctor's rooms.
Retirement Villages · Pretoriuspark, Pretoria East
Pretoria East retirement estate in Pretoriuspark with independent and assisted living, on-site healthcare and frail care, near Woodlands Boulevard and Netcare Pretoria East.
Retirement Villages · Garsfontein, Pretoria East
Church-linked Garsfontein community of two centres offering rentals, life rights, frail care and dementia care, with a dining room, library and on-site hairdresser.
Retirement Villages · Halfway House, Midrand, Midrand & Waterfall
Long-standing retirement home in Halfway House, Midrand, offering a more affordable alternative to the Waterfall estates, with Netcare Waterfall City ten minutes away.
Retirement Villages · Lyndhurst, Bedfordview, Edenvale & the East Rand
Rand Aid life-right village on 20 hectares with a greenbelt, dams and a clubhouse, offering one-bedroom apartments to three-bedroom cottages for over-65s.
Retirement Villages · Rietfontein, Centurion, Montana & Pretoria North
Trans-50's non-profit village in Rietfontein for active, independent residents, with bachelor and one-bedroom apartments, visiting nurses and home care on request.
Retirement Villages · Lyttelton, Centurion, Centurion, Montana & Pretoria North
Afrikaans-community retirement village in Lyttelton, Centurion, offering affordable independent units for older residents near the Lyttelton shops and Netcare Unitas.
Retirement Villages · Olympus, Pretoria East
Olympus retirement village with its own frail care centre, part of the Olympus and Faerie Glen cluster of care homes serving Pretoria East.
Retirement Villages · Equestria, Pretoria East
Sectional-title retirement scheme in Equestria for self-sufficient people over 50, with independent living units and frail care on the property.
Retirement Villages · Lyttelton, Centurion, Centurion, Montana & Pretoria North
Established community retirement village in Lyttelton with independent units and frail care, in the heart of old Centurion near Netcare Unitas.
Retirement Villages · Midstream Estate, Centurion, Midrand & Waterfall
Midstream Estate's own retirement village, with a frail care facility and a dementia facility, next to Mediclinic Midstream and the Midstream medical centre.
Retirement Villages · Sandringham, Johannesburg Northern Suburbs
Auria's 122-apartment continuing-care community on the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington golf course, with serviced apartments, assisted living suites, frail care and dementia care.
Retirement Villages · Bryanston, Johannesburg Northern Suburbs
Auria Senior Living's flagship continuing-care estate in Bryanston: 168 garden villas, serviced apartments and assisted living suites, with frail and dementia care on site.
Retirement Villages · Bedfordview, Edenvale & the East Rand
Established Bedfordview retirement village with apartments and cottages for independent and supported living, close to Eastgate and Life Bedford Gardens.
Retirement Villages · Edenvale, Bedfordview, Edenvale & the East Rand
Rand Aid's rental village on 10 hectares, linked to Elphin Lodge by a footbridge, with studio and one-bedroom apartments for over-65s who prefer not to buy a life right.
Retirement Villages · Modderfontein, Bedfordview, Edenvale & the East Rand
Rand Aid life-right village in Modderfontein with two- and three-bedroom cottages, landscaped gardens and a conservation area next door for walks.
Retirement Villages · Waterfall City, Midrand, Midrand & Waterfall
Over-50s estate inside Waterfall City with houses and apartments, a frail care facility in Waterfall Manor, a nurse on site at all times and Netcare Waterfall City Hospital next door.
Retirement Villages · Waterfall City, Midrand, Midrand & Waterfall
241 free-standing houses for over-50s in Waterfall City, selling at R3.5 to R8 million with no transfer duty or renting at R23,000 to R30,000 a month, with access to the Waterfall Hills care centre.
Retirement Villages · Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria East
Central Developments' waterfront estate for over-50s in Waterkloof Ridge, with a 24-hour frail care centre, a dementia and Alzheimer's centre, lifestyle centre and 3 km walking trail.
Retirement Villages · Die Wilgers, Pretoria East
Life-right retirement village in Die Wilgers, one of the more affordable villages in Pretoria East, two minutes from Life Wilgers Hospital.
Retirement Villages · Witfield, Boksburg, Bedfordview, Edenvale & the East Rand
Trans-50's longest-running village, open since 1970 in Boksburg, with flats and single rooms, a care centre, memory care rooms and home care, run by a non-profit.
Retirement Villages · Montana, Centurion, Montana & Pretoria North
Retirement village in Montana, Pretoria North, with two-bedroom units listed around R1.65 million, near Netcare Montana Hospital and the Zambezi shopping centres.
The province
Gauteng has more retirement units than any other province and the most under R2 million, which makes it the easiest place in South Africa to find a village a family can afford. It also has the densest network of private hospitals in the country. Netcare, Mediclinic and Life hospitals sit within fifteen minutes of nearly every suburb from Fourways to Faerie Glen, and that matters more at 85 than any sea view.
The market runs from large non-profit life-right villages in the east of Johannesburg, through church and community homes in Pretoria that take the state pension, to new lifestyle estates in Midrand, Broadacres, North Riding and Waterkloof with frail care on site and prices to match. Most families who stay are staying for a reason: the children and grandchildren live here, the GP is here, and the parent knows the roads.
Our town guides cover Johannesburg's northern suburbs, the east of the city and Modderfontein, Roodepoort and the West Rand, Midrand and Waterfall, Pretoria East, and Centurion and Pretoria North. For costs, read frail care costs in Gauteng and retirement village costs in Gauteng.
A retirement village is a secure community of houses, cottages or apartments for independent older people. Most have a clubhouse, a dining room or coffee shop, maintained gardens and 24-hour security, and many add a frail care centre so residents can move into care later without leaving.
In South Africa you usually buy in on a life right, on sectional title, or you rent. The model you choose decides what happens to the money when the unit is vacated, so it is worth understanding before you compare prices.
Questions families ask
For hospital access, choice and price, yes. Gauteng has the most retirement units in the country and leads in units under R2 million. The trade-offs are traffic, water and power interruptions in some municipalities, and the absence of a coast. Families who stay usually do so because their children and doctors are here.
The east of the city (Lyndhurst, Edenvale, Modderfontein and Bedfordview) has the largest cluster, led by the Rand Aid villages. The northern suburbs from Bryanston to Fourways and Broadacres have the newer lifestyle estates, and Midrand's Waterfall estates sit between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Published 2025 and 2026 rates run from about R17,900 for a shared room in a small Parktown care home to R26,000 to R30,000 for private rooms and high care at established Johannesburg villages. Non-profit homes in Pretoria charge from about R8,700, and subsidised homes take most of the state pension.
Yes. The City of Johannesburg runs 29 homes and retirement villages with about 2,000 units for pensioners, and the provincial Department of Social Development funds non-profit homes across the province. Apply early: waiting lists in Gauteng are among the longest in the country.
You pay a once-off amount for the right to live in a unit for life. You do not own it. When the right ends, the village resells it and repays an amount set out in your agreement, which may be a fixed share of the original price or of the resale price. These schemes are regulated by the Housing Development Schemes for Retired Persons Act.
Most villages set a minimum age, commonly between 50 and 60. Check with the village, because the rules differ and some allow a younger spouse.