The City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Human Settlements, Councillor Malusi Booi, visited the Grassy Park and Lotus River areas today, 25 January 2022, to speak to Community Residential Unit (CRU) tenants about the City’s rental sales programme. Approximately 42 units are available for sale in these areas. He was joined by Ward Councillor Gerry Gordon. Some 7 500 Council-owned rental properties in various areas of the metro are available to qualifying tenants for purchasing so they may become property owners.
These properties, located in various areas across the metro such as Gugulethu, Valhalla Park, Mitchells Plain, Heideveld and Nyanga, among others, include free-standing and semi-detached houses, terraced or row houses and maisonettes. Qualifying tenants are encouraged to make use of the opportunity to become the owners of the rental dwellings many of them had occupied for many years.
Legal and qualifying tenants are encouraged to visit their nearest housing office to learn more about this offering and to determine whether the rental dwelling they occupy forms part of the remaining units.
To determine if they qualify to purchase a rental unit, tenants will need to produce the following documents when visiting a housing office:
- A payslip not older than three months
- An affidavit should tenants be unemployed
- Proof of self-employment and six months’ certified income and expenditure statements
- A confirmation letter from the South African Social Security Agency if tenants receive a social grant
- Identity documents for the tenant and spouse if applicable
- A marriage certificate/divorce certificate/death certificate
Multi-storey blocks of flats are not available for sale at present. The sale of blocks of flats can only happen through the implementation of a sectional title dispensation as set out in the Sectional Title Scheme Act (8 of 2011).
Source: City Of Cape Town