Sell your house knowing exactly what you’ll walk away with.
Commission, certificates, bond settlement, clearance figures, tax. Six lines that decide what actually reaches your account — and almost nobody puts them in front of you before you sign.
This site does. Work the numbers yourself, read the guide for your situation, and speak to me only when you want to.
What would you actually walk away with?
Roughly in your pocket
58% of price
R 1 446 925
After 5% commission plus VAT, bond settlement and the usual compliance certificates. Excludes capital gains tax and rates clearance — the full calculator handles both.
Straight answers
The questions nobody answers straight
Written for the northern suburbs specifically, kept current, and free of the vagueness that usually surrounds this stuff.
- Costs & tax
Estate agent commission — what’s normal, and what’s actually negotiable
There is no fixed commission rate in South Africa. Here is what agents really charge, what the VAT does to it, when it becomes payable, and how to negotiate without ending up with a worse sale.
Read the guide→ - Costs & tax
Every certificate you need to sell — and which ones Cape Town adds
Electrical, plumbing, gas, electric fence and beetle. Which are legally required, which are only contractual, what they cost, and the one that catches sellers in the City of Cape Town specifically.
Read the guide→ - Your situation
Selling a property in a deceased estate
What an executor can and cannot do, why the Master of the High Court sets the timeline, when the property can be marketed versus when it can transfer, and how to keep an eighteen-month process from becoming a two-year one.
Read the guide→
Work it out yourself
Calculators that don't ask for your email first
Every figure, every assumption shown. No gate, no obligation, and no cheerful rounding in the agent's favour.
Working with me
Three things I do differently for sellers
- 01
An honest valuation
Not the highest number, the right one. Overpricing costs you more than any commission negotiation ever will — a home that sits gets discounted twice.
- 02
Everything on the table first
Certificates, clearance figures, bond notice, tax. You see the full cost of selling before you commit to anything, not in the fortnight before transfer.
- 03
Sold, then actually transferred
Accepting an offer is the halfway point. The three months after signature are where deals quietly fall apart, and where most of the real work sits.
Where I work
Selling your house in 14 suburbs
The Tygerberg and Table Bay corridor — a small enough patch to know street by street, which is the only way pricing is ever accurate.
Indicative, not to scale. 14 suburbs between Table Bay and the Tygerberg slopes — small enough to know street by street.
Who I work with
Families selling the house they raised children in
Usually the biggest financial decision they have made, and often their first sale.
People downscaling or moving to a retirement village
Life rights, levies, sequencing the sale. Rarely only about the money.
Owners living overseas
Withholding tax, signing from abroad, getting the proceeds out. Start eight weeks earlier than you think.
Executors and families winding up an estate
The Master sets the timeline, not the market. Marketing can start long before transfer can.
Landlords deciding whether to rent or sell
The arithmetic, honestly done, including the costs landlords leave out.
- MilnertonTable Bay’s coastal suburb — lagoon, golf course and Woodbridge Island.
- EdgemeadLeafy, settled and school-driven, tucked under the Tygerberg hills.
- BothasigEstablished, well-priced family living between Milnerton and Edgemead.
- PlattekloofThe elevated end of the northern suburbs, with the views to match.
- Monte VistaCentral, established and consistently in demand.
- WelgelegenSmall, quiet and closely held, next door to Plattekloof.
- Parow NorthSolid, established family suburb with strong value fundamentals.
- GoodwoodOne of the oldest northern suburbs, with the mixed stock to prove it.
- RichwoodCompact, manageable homes with quick access to the coast and the N7.
- Summer GreensSecurity-conscious cluster living on Century City’s doorstep.
- Century CityA mixed-use precinct — apartments, offices, Canal Walk and Intaka Island.
- Burgundy EstateNewer, modern stock in a still-developing pocket off the N7.
- SandriftA small, established pocket of Milnerton, close to the golf course and Century City.
- Milnerton RidgeThe elevated side of Milnerton, with the views that come with it.
No obligation, no pressure
Find out what it’s worth.
A proper valuation, based on what has actually sold near you — not an automated estimate and not a number designed to win your mandate.
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