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 · 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 · 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 · 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.
Local knowledge
Pretoria East has the densest concentration of retirement villages in the country. Along the Lynnwood and Garsfontein roads and out to Equestria and The Willows are dozens of established villages: Faerie Glen Renaissance, Glenhaven and Haven Village in Garsfontein, Willow Haven, Protea and Masonic Haven in Die Wilgers, Pretoria Oos Aftreeoord and Equestria Village, and the newer Featherwood, Waterkloof Marina and The Retreat at Hazeldean. Olympus and Equestria also host a cluster of frail care and dementia homes.
Private hospitals are everywhere: Life Wilgers, Netcare Pretoria East, Mediclinic Kloof, Life Groenkloof and Netcare Jakaranda, with Steve Biko Academic as the provincial centre. OR Tambo is about 45 minutes by the R21.
Prices are among the most reasonable in any metro. One-bedroom units in older villages sell from R690,000 in Lynnwood and about R1 million in Garsfontein, two-bedrooms from R1.3 million to R2.8 million, and new estates from about R1.4 million to R5 million. Many of the older villages are community-run with frail care on site. See retirement village costs in Gauteng for what the levy covers.
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
Featherwood Retirement Estate in Pretoriuspark, Waterkloof Marina in Waterkloof Ridge (24-hour frail care and a dementia centre), Pretoria Oos Aftreeoord in Equestria, Glenhaven in Garsfontein and the Protea village in The Willows all have care on the property. Olive Crescent and the Adcare and Medifrail homes in Olympus and Equestria are stand-alone care centres.
Listed prices in 2026 ranged from R690,000 for a one-bedroom at Lynnwood Oord and about R1.07 million in Garsfontein, to R1.65 million for a two-bedroom at Zambezi in Montana and R2.5 million to R5 million in the newer estates. Levies run roughly R2,000 to R7,000 a month.
Yes. Ons Tuis Riviera publishes a rate of about R8,700 a month, and SAVF, Residentia and church homes across the city take residents on the state pension with a waiting list.
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.