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Properties along the Garden Route have become increasingly popular over the past 18 months.

It’s been dubbed ‘semigration’, with a surge in the number of people who work from home leading to an influx of property buyers heading from Gauteng to the Western Cape coast.

Rather the Garden Route than Cape Town. We already have enough terrible tribal tattoos around these parts.

Real estate agents say there’s a huge demand for properties around R2,5 million, but where’s the fun in ogling one of those?

Plettenberg Bay regulars will certainly recognise Milkwood Manor, the landmark property at the end of a cul-de-sac with direct access to the Keurbooms River estuary, as well as Lookout Beach.

It’s now on the market for a cool R42 million. Property24 below:

[The price] includes all moveable inventory, such as furniture, curtains, appliances and artworks. The property, which has a total floor area of 897sqm, has for many years been operated as a 4-Star guesthouse, and it has a liquor license which is also available if required. The current owner wishes to retire.

Accommodation includes 14 luxurious suites, seven of which have external patios or balconies with expansive sea views. The flat parapet roof of the building, accessible by stairs, also provides panoramic views of the distant Tsitsikamma mountains, the sea and the estuary, and is a great spot to savour some sundowners.

There are definitely worse places to crack a sundowner.

In the past, the property has also operated as a restaurant, meaning it has a professionally-equipped kitchen, in addition to a full-size hotel-style bar and a wine cellar.

That lighting makes it look like the kind of bar where you throw your car keys in a hat and hope for the best.

Rather than showing photos of rooms and whatnot, let’s take a video tour of the property:

All building plans, leases, other structures have been approved by the Bitou Municipality and the Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning, so there’s no bother on that front.

You can have a look around the listing here.

Maybe the ‘semigrating’ Vaalies can chip in a few bar each and snap it up.

[sources:property24&property24]