There is, says Lanice Steward, Managing Director of Anne Porter Knight Frank, always a certain magic attached to homes that are reasonably close to Cavendish Square, the popular shopping and entertainment centre in central Claremont, Cape Town.

“It may,” says Steward, “surprise those with more settled lifestyles to know that there are people who regularly visit, snack out and socialise at Cavendish Square. For some it is their preferred meeting place, a home-from-home.”

Anne Porter Knight Frank is, right now, selling a three bedroom, three bathroom lock up and go home in the Cavendish precinct for R3,95 million.

Beautifully encircled by boundary walls and blissfully private and tranquil but with stunning views from its patio and certain rooms of the Kirstenbosch mountain range (part of Table Mountain’s southern spine), the home, says Jennie Kochannek of Anne Porter Knight Frank is surprisingly large for so suburban and highly developed an area.

It has both a living and a dining room, a study and a swimming pool and garaging for two cars - and having being built in the 1950s has the comfort and good solid finishes of that era. The kitchen, says Kochannek, has been extensively modernised in an open plan configuration and is very well equipped