Retirement Villages · Burgundy Estate, Milnerton, Milnerton & Blouberg
New life-right retirement estate in Burgundy Estate with apartments, cottages and houses, a heated indoor pool, gym, bowling green and restaurant.
Retirement Villages · Sunningdale, Blouberg, Milnerton & Blouberg
Life-right retirement estate of pet-friendly houses in Sunningdale, a few minutes from the Blouberg and Melkbos beaches.
Local knowledge
The coast north of the city (Milnerton, Table View, Parklands, Sunningdale, Bloubergstrand and Melkbosstrand) used to have few retirement options. That has changed. Large life-right estates have opened in Sunningdale and Burgundy Estate, and a string of small assisted living and frail care homes now serve families who already live in the area.
Netcare Blaauwberg Hospital and Mediclinic Milnerton are both close, and the city centre is 15 to 30 minutes away depending on traffic on the R27 and N7. Cape Town International is roughly 30 minutes from Milnerton and a little more from Melkbos.
Most new estates here sell life rights, so a buyer pays once and gets the money back, less a deduction, when the unit is resold. Read life right vs sectional title before you sign. For care, the small homes in Table View and Melkbos are often easier to get into than the big frail care centres in the Southern Suburbs.
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, but care is mostly in separate small homes rather than inside the big estates. Lilac Seapark in Melkbosstrand has 42 frail care beds, and Lilac on Viola in Table View offers assisted living. Ask any estate whether it has its own care centre or refers residents to an outside home.
Netcare Blaauwberg Hospital is in Sunningdale, within 10 minutes of most of Table View and Blouberg. Mediclinic Milnerton is about 15 minutes away.
Huis Zonnekus in Milnerton is on the government register of homes for older persons and takes residents on the SASSA older persons grant. Waiting lists are long, so apply early.
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.