MULTIGENERATIONAL ESTATES
RECREATING A HEALTHY SOCIAL FABRIC
Multigenerational living has been a growing trend in South Africa for a while, for both
economic and security reasons, but also because three, or even four generations living
in close proximity promotes a healthy social balance that benefits everyone in the mix.
Lifestyle estates are increasingly embracing young, old and Gauteng
everyone in-between, in sectional title homes as well as Steyn City is arguably the most striking example of a
rental apartments, providing facilities that cater for children, multigenerational estate, with its huge diversity of owners
working adults, and those in their golden years. and tenants, and a wide range of properties priced anywhere
from around R2.2 million to over R25 million. Its City
Top lifestyle estates like Steyn City in Gauteng, Sibaya in Centre, which is scheduled for launch in 2020, will include
KwaZulu-Natal and Val de Vie in the Western Cape have approximately 350 apartments and a central park that will
all gone this route, offering an enviable lifestyle replete with open up onto the northern piazza retail space.
nearby schools, shops, medical care facilities, and every
manner of sport or leisure activity for everybody from ‘The apartments and shops will be wheelchair-friendly, and
toddlers to dodderers and pre-teens to pensioners. children have the option to be schooled at Steyn City School,
which opened this year. And there are several play and
Giuseppi Plumari, Steyn City’s CEO, explains the concept well: recreational nodes on the estate, including a skate park for
‘It’s about creating a multigenerational, city-like environment teens. A small medical suite (doctors’ rooms) will also come on
that harks back to an era when young and old lived together, line,’ says Marie Yossava, media
and there was a strong social fabric within communities.’ relations for Steyn City.
Waterfall Hills Mature Lifestyle Estate
Waterfall Estate
Carisbrook Estate