Property developers adjust designs for new world
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The new home living trends that have been established over the past year have become so strongly ingrained that developers are ensuring their new properties cater for these demands.
Space for additional family members and adult children, home offices, and mixed-use facilities are top of developersâ priorities when adapting their new property offerings.
And so too are pet-friendly homes.
Since last yearâs national lockdown, companies have been adopting a far more flexible policy with regards to when and where employees need to work, and as a result David Sedgwick, managing director of Horizon Capital Residential, says people are exploring areas that offer more space, outdoor areas, and a different pace of life compared to living in the city. There has also been a âbig demandâ for micro and small apartments in central Cape Town, the city bowl, and the Atlantic seaboard.
SANParks said while the Newlands Forest area would reopen, other affected areas remain closed to the public.
The fire, which started on Sunday morning, has destroyed around 650 hectares of the park.
Newlands Forest will reopen to the public on Saturday, almost a week after a wildfire swept across Table Mountain National Park (TMNP).
Paths that will be reopened to the public include; Newlands Forest, Devils Peak towards Platteklip footpath, Molteno jeep track towards Kloofnek, Atlantic Seaboard (Camps Bay, Kasteelspoort etc), Constantia Nek, Lions Head, Signal Hill, and Cecilia Forest.
According to TMNP Park Manager, Frans van Rooyen, permitted recreational activities in the reopened areas mentioned above will continue as before, including hiking and dog walking with visitors, . kindly requested to remain on demarcated footpaths and to be mindful of rules pertaining to keeping dogs under control .
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No flooding in the bayous and swimming to safety in alligator-infested waters. No tornadoes throwing around cows from the fields in Kansas and no sprinting from the lava that’s hot on your heels from a volcanic eruption in Hawaii. So I feel fairly safe from these.
I don’t know a lot about tsunamis except that they’re caused by shifting of tectonic plates at the bottom of the ocean (I think). Nothing shook me to my core more than the tsunami in Thailand. THE tsunami.
I mean, what do you do in a situation like that? You can’t drive away, you can’t bop along doing the doggy. And you definitely cannot outrun it.
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In a recent presentation, chief investment officer of Sasfin Asset Management Arno Lawrenz referred to the introduction to one of Nassim Taleb’s books in which he says that investors âwant to be the fire and wish for the windâ.
While Cape Townâs firefighters were most probably wishing the wind would die down last weekend when battling devastating fires, the truth of the wind and fire analogy was shown beyond any doubt.
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