{"id":112449,"date":"2016-02-14T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=112449"},"modified":"2016-02-12T17:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T15:40:34","slug":"6-luxurious-private-pools-for-rich-south-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/112449\/6-luxurious-private-pools-for-rich-south-africans\/","title":{"rendered":"6 luxurious private pools for rich South Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa has some of the most scenic landscapes in the world thanks to its diversity, and add to it the weather, it is the perfect country to build a swimming pool.<\/p>\n

BusinesTech looks at some of the pools in the country’s more luxurious homes currently on the market.<\/p>\n

A good swimming pool is a great selling feature. as some of the price tags on these homes suggest.<\/p>\n

This R36.5 million 4 bedroom house in Constantia Upper, features a rustic pool that looks onto a vineyard, with picturesque mountains in the distance.<\/p>\n

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This R75 million 7 bedroom house in Llandudno, Cape Town, has an infinity pool with spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

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Nestled against the slopes of the Western Heads in Uitzicht, this R78 million 4 bedroom Knysna house boasts its own private access to the beach for boats and your jetty and mooring, while an indoor pool keeps the owners cool after a day in the hot sun.<\/p>\n

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Flanked by vineyards and the Helderberg Mountains, in the basin of the Franschhoek valley stands this 5ha estate which includes a self-standing pavilion\/entertainment area beside a 20m lap and children’s pool.<\/p>\n

The estate also has its own dam for the more adventurous souls.<\/p>\n

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A R115 million 4 bedroom house in Constantia Upper, buys you several water features – including a fountain, and indoor and outside pool, catering for all weather conditions in the Cape.<\/p>\n

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For R200 million, this 4 bedroom house in Fresnaye, Cape Town, comes with ‘a large rim flow’ pool with insane views of the the Atlantic Ocean. It also has an indoor Koi pond.<\/p>\n

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The unusual<\/strong><\/p>\n

Set on 247 hectares, this R65 million mixed use farm in Begha, Eastern Cape, wouldn’t be out of place on the set of a Flintstone movie.<\/p>\n

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Images courtesy of Pam Golding<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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South Africa has some of the most scenic landscapes in the world thanks to its diversity, and add to it the weather, it is the perfect country to build a swimming pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":112549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,10618],"class_list":["post-112449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-pam-golding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112545,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112449\/revisions\/112545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}