Why invest in property on Twin Oaks Country Estate?

 

Everyone would like to own a property in the bushveld,

whether it be a place to relax and spend quality time with

the family, a safe place for children to put their cell

phones down or the television off to go ride bikes and

play outside, or whether it be a tranquil place to look

forward to after retirement.

Game farms are extremely expensive for an individual to

purchase. Add to this the normal running costs to

maintain a game farm, and it becomes out of the financial

reach of most individuals.

Owning and managing a game farm is also hard work, and can take a lot of precious time on weekends when most individuals would like to relax and enjoy quality time with the family without having to fix boreholes or mend broken fences.

Twin Oaks Country estate offers an individual all of the benefits of owning one’s own game farm, at a fraction of the cost, and without the worries and hassles of maintaining the property.

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What is the total size of the Estate?

850 hectares

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What wildlife is there on the estate?

Sable antelope, giraffe, eland, kudu, zebra, blue wildebeest, red hartebeest, waterbuck, blesbok, ostrich, impala, duiker, steenbok, warthog, and many species of birds.

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Water, electricity and sewerage services?

Each stand has an underground Eskom electricity connection point so as to avoid unsightly overhead power lines on the estate. Owners may however choose to go “green” with solar power and gas.

The stands are each connected to the 85 000-litre stainless steel water reservoir which is filled with safe, clean borehole water. The estate therefore has control over its own water supply.

Since the estate is classifies as a low-density development, each stand has their own septic tank and French drain.

 

How many individual stands are on the estate?

There are only 45 stands on the estate. This was done to create exclusivity for stand owners rather than over population.

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How big are the individual stands?

1 hectare, or 100metres x 100metres (2 football fields)

 

How does ownership work?

Full title ownership of individual stand, and automatic membership of the section 21 company that owns the remaining portion of the estate, including the wildlife. Each stand owner is therefore a 45th owner of the communal portion of the estate.

 

What are the levies, and what do they cover?

R500 per month. This covers all the basic running costs of the communal area of the estate, including labour, maintenance of roads and infrastructure, as well as management of the wildlife.

 

Are there any land claims?

Twin Oaks Country Estate was registered as a town, and is now a suburb under the Kgetleng Local Municipality (Koster). During the township application process, a search had to be conducted to ensure that there weren’t any land claims on the property.

 

Security?

Twin Oaks is a hidden gem situated 4,5km off the N4 highway, and away from the view of petty criminals. Entrance at the main gate is controlled via biometric scanner, and is monitored by security cameras. The fact that there are 45 individual stands of 1 hectare each on the estate, makes the properties far enough apart for individual privacy, but at the same time close enough for security in numbers. All owners are in easy communication with each other, and since only owners and their visitors are allowed on the estate, there are no loiterers on the property scanning the houses for criminal purposes.

Adults and children can therefore go for peaceful walks in the bush or ride their bicycles on the many roads on the estate, without fear of being hit by speeding vehicles, or of being mugged for a cell phone, bicycle or a wallet.

 

Who manages and controls the estate?

Trustees of the Twin Oaks Homeowners Association are elected each year at the AGM, and it is their responsibility to oversee to day to day activities and maintenance of the estate. Homeowners can therefore relax and enjoy the estate.

 

What stands are still available?

There are 3 stands available on the estate.

Stand 29 – selling for R349 000 (beautiful bush stand)

Stand 24 – selling for R399 000 (beautiful bush stand overlooking the popular “Serengeti” plains area where an abundance of wildlife graze in the early morning and late afternoon)

Stand 12 – selling for R499 000 (stunning stand with an unspoilt view)