Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa November 2014 | Page 32

TRENDS BY TONY CLARKE SA’s Middle Class’ Property Tastes A trend to watch M iddle class South Africans are believed by some to be garden lovers who spend a fair amount of weekend time relaxing on patios or beside pools – right? Well, perhaps not. This is no longer true of quite a large percentage of middle class South Africans. We find today a fairly high percentage of buyers actually do not want