Property, quickly replacing politics as the most depressing dinner conversation with friends.

You certainly don’t get as much bang for your buck as you used to – take a look at THESE beauts on the Atlantic Seaboard, you know you’re laying down serious cash.

If you’re lucky enough to have plenty of cash to your name, though, this property is certainly worth a second look.

Technically it’s just outside Stellies, set high in the Helderberg Mountain, but for the sake of simplicity we’ll let that one slide.

Before we take a look around let’s get some details from BusinessTech:

The property is set on a 22 hectare piece of land and features two houses (4 bedrooms in the main house and 3 bedrooms in the second) and two cottages.

The house has a wide, breath-taking view from Gordon’s Bay, False Bay, Cape Point, Table Mountain, Robben Island and can see all the way to Stellenbosch proper.

Scene set, so what kind of view justifies paying R45 million for then?

Yes please, I’ll have me some of that. The house itself ain’t too shabby either…

It’s enough to fuel the fingers for a quick property search, right?

It turns out that around 70% of South Africans start their search for a new home on online property sites, which is why everyone’s hopping on board and making their sites more efficient and user friendly.

Leading the way is Gumtree Property, with division head Barry Swart letting us in on the new ProTool for Property feature:

“The platform, called ProTool for Property, streamlines admin for professional sellers and provides major benefits in both reporting and the delivery of leads,” Swart explains.

Gumtree showcases over 95,000 live SA property listings at any given time. Swart explains that anyone who has used Gumtree will appreciate the massive benefits the ProTool offers; “In most instances, clients are able to upload ads automatically through their feed provider and have these ads bumped back to the top of the search lists, frequently and automatically, without any manual intervention – a massive saving in time and administration.”

Swart says ProTool for Property makes loading listings far more convenient, increases their exposure and drives more leads which are then presented to the subscriber in an easily accessible and contactable way.

Anything that makes the buying and selling of property more efficient is always welcomed with open hands, so we’ll be snooping around the Gumtree ProTool section to see what all the fuss is about.

Now to bust open the piggy bank and face the bad news head on…

[source:businesstech]