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 · 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 · 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.
Local knowledge
Midrand did not exist as a retirement destination twenty years ago. Today Waterfall Hills and Waterfall Valley, two mature-lifestyle estates inside Waterfall City, hold several hundred homes for over-50s with a frail care centre, 24-hour nurse, doctor's rooms and Netcare Waterfall City Hospital inside the wider estate. Retire at Midstream, on the Centurion side of the N1, adds frail and dementia care next to Mediclinic Midstream.
The appeal is simple: children in Sandton and Pretoria are each 25 minutes away, the Gautrain stops at Midrand, and OR Tambo is 30 minutes along the R21. Prices are high. Houses at Waterfall Valley sell for R3.5 million to R8 million with rentals of R23,000 to R30,000 a month, and Waterfall Hills is in the same bracket.
For families who can afford it, this is the Gauteng equivalent of the Helderberg: everything on one secure estate, with the hospital a golf cart ride away. For a cheaper option nearby, Highveld Gardens in Halfway House and the Centurion villages across the highway are worth a look.
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.
Questions families ask
Yes. Waterfall Hills has a frail care facility in Waterfall Manor, a nurse on site at all times, doctor's rooms and 24-hour emergency response. Waterfall Valley residents have reciprocal access to the Waterfall Hills care centre.
The estate quotes R3.5 million to R8 million to buy, with no transfer duty, and R23,000 to R30,000 a month to rent.
Netcare Waterfall City Hospital is inside Waterfall City. Mediclinic Midstream is ten minutes north, and Netcare Sunninghill fifteen minutes south.
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.