A sociable home for graduates and working professionals. And those becoming graduates and working professionals. We can’t say you’ll meet the love of your life here. But you might. In Salt River, of all places. You’ll most certainly make lifelong friends.      CLICK for reviews

We may not have the best address, but we’re so conveniently situated: 6 minutes walk to The Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock, 12 minutes walk to the soon to be complete new Amazon HQ in Observatory. Near many other useful places, see below. We’re close to a MyCiti bus, mad taxis, reliable Golden Arrow buses, close-ish to a Jammie Shuttle.

More importantly, we always have the most interesting mix of tenants. Broadening of mind experience.

Artists, marketers, a captain of luxury yachts, a neuroscientist, chefs at top restaurants, environmentalists, engineers, a town planner, fashion designers, pharmacists, psychologist, doctors, managers, IT specialists. We’ve also had accountants.

          Students of advertising, architecture, business management, culinary arts, engineering, environmental management, film making, graphic design, medicine, real estate.

Call us if you think you’ll fit in with other ambitious people.

[ NOTE: preference is for 3rd year / hons students. If you’re not yet, then convince us that you’re a SERIOUS and AMBITIOUS student. If you think you’re the life and soul of a party, then knock on someone else’s door please. ]

All sociably, happily, sharing a lounge, kitchen, the braai and smokers courtyard, and bathrooms. Nothing en suite, sorry, but you’ll get used to it.

When you’re not in the mood to be sociable, you can retire to your furnished bedroom.

Every past student chef is now a working chef at a big name 5 star South African restaurant: The Test Kitchen, The Pot Luck Club, La Colombe, Homespun, La Petite Colombe in Franschhoek, The Shortmarket Club Johannesburg, Waterside at the V&A. One has been a judge on chef competitions, worked in USA, lectures to budding chefs.

An engineering student won the top award for his work, the only one out of 20 interns to be offered a permanent job.

Another student won Best Chef award in her category at the world-renowned Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town.

A number of CA students passed their final exams while with us.

We’re 1.2km to a UCT Jammie Shuttle stop  |  300 mts from us is a MyCiti bus to the front entrance of CPUT D6 and to the Civic Centre.

Below all 10 – 12 mins walk / 750 – 850 meters