Long Street Cape Town

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Eight stylish apartments rent or buy in Cape Town

Pretty as a postcard, Cape Town’s got some real luxury on offer. Whether you’re looking to rent or buy a property in the Mother City, we’ve found some beautifully designed places that’ll make your heart sing.

Long Street Cape Town

Long Street Cape Town / TSA stock photo

Even if your heart is op die platteland, there’s something so alluring about a beautifully designed city centre apartment, anywhere in the world. Perhaps it’s the seclusion, high up with vast windows. Or maybe it’s something to do with imagining yourself as a character from a novel.

Cape Town comes with an added bonus: views for days. Whether you’re just looking to dream about… err, your dream apartment, or looking for an investment or some holiday inspo, we’ve put together a list of some of the most gorgeous apartment for sale, to rent or just to look it.

Old school is cool

We admit, this won’t be to everyone’s taste. But we love a bit of this old school look and feel. It almost feels like you’re in a wooden cabin somewhere. We can smell the pannekoek while sitting at that kitchen table with the winter rain bucketing down outside.

This one-bedroom gem is for sale on PropertyFox for just under a cool R2.7m.

Cape Town apartment for sale
Photo: PropertyFox
Cape Town apartment for sale
Photo: PropertyFox
Cape Town apartment for sale
Photo: PropertyFox

Oh my loft

For rent on AirBNB, just look at all the light. And there’s even access to an outside area for morning coffee.

Cape Town apartment for retn
Photo: Screengrab from AirBNB
Cape Town apartment for retn
Photo: Screengrab from AirBNB

All you need to know about is the pool

We’re not going to bore you with the details.  For rent on booking.com, just look at the pool with the views. That’s all you need to know.

Cape Town apartment to retn
Photo: Booking.com

Keeping it compact

Perfect if it’s just you and yourself looking for somewhere to call home. This R2.5m studio is super simple, but comes with a sprawling deck, perfect for those summer days.

Photo: PropertyFox

Back to luxury

We’re out of words with this one. Other than wow. Just look at it. Look at everything. It’s like something out of a movie set. Take our money. Available to rent on AirBNB.

Views for days

We did say views are top of the list of appeal for browsing Cape Town apartments, right? Just look. Admittedly, we’ve imagined those chairs being turned into a bathtub … but that might just be lack-of-bath dreams because of the drought. Available to rent on AirBNB.

 

Art deco chic

Does it even matter that you can’t see al that much through the window if the window looks this damn cool? Available to rent on AirBNB.

Let’s hear it for the views once more

That’s what we’re talking about. We know Cape Town can’t compete with the Jozi thunderstorms, but we’ve heard the Mother City does sunsets pretty well. Wouldn’t look too bad through those windows, right? Available to rent on booking.com. Just search for Lawhill Luxury apartments.

Look, most of these are out of our price range, but that doesn’t mean we can’t dream, right?

If lusting after gorgeous architecture is your thing, also check out this pictorial on the history of Cape Dutch Architecture.