Farms for sale in South Africa
Water rights, hectares, carrying capacity, zoning and title. Erfdevco records the same schedule of measured facts on every farm, smallholding, game farm and vineyard we list, wherever in the country it lies. Water rights, hectares, zoning and title, recorded for every farm we list.
Farms currently under mandate
An agency built for agricultural property, not adapted to it
Erfdevco sells farms, agricultural land, game farms and smallholdings across South Africa. The agency is led by Martiens Du Plessis, an economics graduate of Stellenbosch, registered with the Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority.
Residential portals were built for houses, so they ask about bedrooms. A buyer looking at 400 hectares needs to know the borehole yield, the carrying capacity, the zoning and whether the water use licence is registered or still under application. That is what our listing schedule asks, and it is why our listings read the way they do.
- 554 m² to ±211.75 ha
- Smallest to largest on the books
- PPRA
- Registered, and the same practitioner from valuation to transfer
Why buy and sell with Erfdevco
For buyers at home and abroad, and for the sellers who list with us.
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Side by side
Line two or three farms up and compare them field for field.
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Work out the numbers
Transfer costs, bond repayments and what a sale leaves you.
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For buyers abroad
The site in German, and prices in euros, pounds or US dollars beside the rand.
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Any province
Mandates taken anywhere in the country, not in one district.
List your farm with the detail it deserves
Send us the property and we will work through the schedule with you, then agree the mandate and the commission in writing before anything is published.
The five questions every buyer asks first
On most farm listings you have to phone to find out. Every answer below is lifted straight off a listing for sale on this site, and where a fact is not known, the listing says so rather than filling the gap.
How much water does it have, and is it legal?
The schedule asks for the whole water position: rights and licence status, boreholes, dam storage, rivers and tanks. The off-grid farm in the Baardskeerdersbos valley states a solar borehole of 2 500 litres an hour, two dams and rainwater tanks at the house, and its listing tells you to ask for the borehole's test certificate. Where the seller has not given a figure, the listing says so instead of estimating one: the arable land records river frontage on the Boesmans and leaves water access for the buyer to verify. The off-grid farm and the arable land.
What is actually built on it?
Buildings are itemised, not summarised. Franskraal lists two homes room by room and a 20 m by 30 m steel and brick workshop of roughly 600 m², with three high roller shutter doors and an overhead crane beam. Marietjie's lists a 270 m² building on a 1 317 m² erf, with a bar, a restaurant seating about 50, a padstal and a nursery. Franskraal and Marietjie's.
What may I do with it, and what has the council agreed?
Zoning and consent are recorded separately, because they are not the same thing. The Pearly Beach erf is zoned Business Zone 3, the seller states, which allows a shop, offices or a restaurant as it stands, while a bottle store would still need the municipality's consent. Marietjie's is zoned Agricultural Zone 1, like the rest of Baardskeerdersbos, and trades under the municipality's consent rather than business rights; its restaurant liquor licence goes with the premises, with proof of paid yearly fees a condition of the sale. At Franskraal the workshop could be let as storage bays, but no application has been made and consent still has to be obtained, and the listing says exactly that rather than calling it income. The Pearly Beach erf and Marietjie's.
Does VAT come off the price, or go on top?
The seller's position is stated up front, because it changes what a buyer actually pays. The Franskraal seller is not a VAT vendor, so normal transfer duty applies on top of the price. The seller of the off-grid farm is a registered VAT vendor: its R8 400 000 is quoted before VAT, the 15% goes on top, and a sale that carries VAT carries no transfer duty. Franskraal and the off-grid farm.
Does the power stay on?
Supply is recorded with sizes, not adjectives. Franskraal runs an 8 kVA inverter at the main house and a 3 kVA inverter at the workshop, both without solar, plus a standby generator. The off-grid farm runs its house on solar panels and an inverter, with a 50 kVA Eskom connection point there for backup, and an Eskom line crosses the arable land. Franskraal and the off-grid farm.
Nine provinces, one way of listing
A farm in Limpopo is written up against the same schedule as land in the Overberg, so a buyer can judge it properly before spending a day driving out to see it.
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- On the books today, all of them in the Western Cape.
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- Sections in the listing schedule. Each listing shows the ones its land needs.