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Cape Town

🇿🇦 Western Cape · Ranked #99 of 182 worldwide
57SCORE
Cape Town is a cash-flow market where rents are high relative to prices. Here's the full data-driven picture — cost, safety, schools, jobs and climate risk.

Mountain-meets-two-oceans beauty with a nomad boom; Day Zero drought memory and Eskom blackouts price the risk.

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The numbers

Median homeZAR 1.75M
Median rentZAR 14,000/mo
Gross rental yield9.6%
Median age33 yrs

How it scores

Climate
55
Affordability
55
Momentum
58
Resilience
60

Livability grades

C+Safety
B+Schools
BState
A+Hiking

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