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Property in Gauteng
Gauteng is the economic powerhouse of South Africa and the Gauteng property market is filled with growth and opportunity. Property in Gauteng include a wide range of options such as houses, townhouses, flats, vacant land and many other types of property for sale.

Gauteng Property Regions
Property in Pretoria CBD & Pretoria North, Gauteng
Property in Fourways, Midrand, Centurion & Surrounds
Property in Pretoria East, Gauteng
Property in West Rand, Gauteng
Property in Johannesburg Central and Northern Suburbs, Gauteng
Property in East Rand, Gauteng
Property in Southern Gauteng

More About Property in Gauteng
Although Gauteng is the smallest of the nine South African province in terms of land size, it is the economic powerhouse of South Africa and the Gauteng province generates the highest property transfers per year in terms of South African property sales.

Johannesburg, also known as Egoli -"place of gold", is the capital of Gauteng. Johannesburg offers a variety of real estate opportunities with property in Sandton, Bryanston, Fourways, Lonehill and property in Midrand. The Midrand area also include sought after property in the Kyalami area. To the west we have property in Randburg, Roodepoort, Krugersdorp, Randfontein and florida with Farms and smallholdings in the Lanseria area where the Lanseria Airport is located.

To the south of Johannesburg prime property are found in Alberton, Bassonia, Glenvista and Mondeor. To the east of Johannesburg we have property available in Germiston, Benoni, Boksburg, Bedfordview, Edenvale and Kempton park where the Johannesburg International Airport is located. Bordering the Freestate we have a wide selection of property in Heidelberg, Meyerton, Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark.

About 50km north of Johannesburg we have property in Pretoria, the second largest city in Gauteng and also the administrative capital of South Africa. Pretoria is also known as the Jacaranda City because of its purple Jacaranda trees that can be found just about everywhere in the city. Pretoria is also home to the government's Union Buildings with its amazing historical architecture.

The Vaal River is the south border of Gauteng seperating it from the Free State province. Here you will find property in the important industrial and coal-mining towns of Vanderbiljpark and Vereeniging. Vandbijlpark is filled with holiday resorts and just the place to take a boat to the water and has a reputation for it's valuable waterfront property.

Gauteng also has property for sale in the form of farms with significant agricultural land providing fruit, vegetables, dairy products and meat to the cities as well as areas where maize, groundnuts, sunflowers, cotton and sorghum are grown.

Gauteng is home to major Universities including the University of Pretoria, University of South Africa (UNISA), University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) and the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). UNISA is one of the largest correspondence universities in the world. It is also no surprise then that the majority of South Africa's research and development is hosted in Gauteng Province. It houses most major IT (Information Technology) companies as well as most of Financial Institution head quarters including the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
 

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