East London at a glance
Located halfway between Durban and Cape Town, and at the northern end of The Sunshine Coast, property investors will come home to a city with a seaside lifestyle.
A sub-tropical climate compliments golden sun kissed shores, where waves soak the sand on pristine, uncommercialised beaches.
In East London, there is a place for everyone to call home. If your budget and lifestyle is conducive to luxury living, suburbs like Bonnie Doone with river frontage views and Nahoon with expansive sea views offer expensive upmarket homes. If you are a young single professional wanting to get into the property market, suburbs like Amindla, Cambridge, Dorchester and Haven Hills offer entry level prices from R 650 000 to R 1.2m. A growing family wanting to upgrade, the suburbs of Gonubie, Vincent, Stirling and Selborne offer larger family homes from between R 1.3m - R 2.5m.
All suburbs in East London offer a wide variety of schools, medical facilities and entertainment.
Schools in the area include:
- Merrifield Preparatory School and College
- Hudson Park Primary and High School
- Cambridge Primary and High School
- Althorpe College
- Selborne College Boys
- George Randell Primary & High School
- Stirling High School
- Beaconhurst Primary & High School
- Clarendon Girls High School
- East London Montessori
- President Primary School
- Ariston Christian School
There are also some boutique type schooling options, The Goss Christian Home-school, Port Rex Technical High School and Belgravia Art Centre.
Schools for special needs children include, Arcadia School, College Street School and Baysville.
Medical facilities in the area include:
- Medicross Medical Centre
- Beacon Bay Clinic
- The Medical Society
- Life St Marks Clinic
- Siyakhanda Community Health
- St Dominic's Hospital
- Braelyn Clinic
- Intercare Gonubie and many more offer professional medical care for you and your family.
Entertainment abounds in East London for nature lovers, beach goers, foodies, shoppers and children. When inclement weather doesn't allow for fantastic family fun on the brilliant beaches, East London offers many other entertainment choices such as:
- Electric Avenue, an action-packed family entertainment centre, including ten-pin bowling, bumper cars, arcade games and more.
- An interesting little aquarium with seal shows, penguins, daily fish feeding, a rehabilitation centre for injured sea creatures that are released once well enough to go back to the ocean, a shark tank and the biggest attraction being a wooden boardwalk that offers hours of uninterrupted whale watching during the whale season.
- Action Karting, a brilliant go-karting track offering hours of high-speed thrills.
- Gravity Indoor Trampoline Park, offering rainy day fun.
- The Arts Theatre.
Other outdoor activities include:
- Picnicing at the Gonubie River.
- Fishing and camping at the Areena River Resort.
- Horseback riding along the Wild Coast beaches.
- Sunset cruise in the harbour.
- Queens Park Zoo and Gardens.
- Drifters Raceway Theme Park is an amusement park - your children's paradise.
- Taste the finest milkshakes at Friesland Milk Bar
- Nahoon Estuary Nature Reserve and Nahoon Point Lighthouse.
- Spot dolphins on the Esplanade.
- The Bat Cave is a moderate/difficult 3km hiking trail through the Nahoon Point Nature Reserve, explore and rock jump in breath-taking surrounds. The Bat's Cave itself is only accessible at low tide.
- The Dassie Trail is an easy 1 hour, 2 km family walk through a mystical forest to mud flats fringed with mangrove trees.
Restaurants in East London satisfy even the fussiest foodies, from street food to bar food to fine dining, there is something for you and your family. Grazia's Fine Food and Wine, enjoy authentic African cuisine to the soulful sounds of Jazz at Imbizo Café, breakfast at the Beach Break Café, a Nahoon beach institution amongst the locals, Buccaneers Sports Bar and Grill, discover the delightful Emerald Vale Brewery, Ginger and Co is the place to go when cake and coffee is the only solution, Sanook Café serves brilliant burgers, Ciao Bella Café and Pizzeria, Jade Garden Fusion Restaurant, The Bistro, Café Neo. When the need for a hot meaty flaky pastry treat calls, Shamrock Pepper Steak pies will satisfy that craving, unbeatable farmhouse breakfasts at the Lavender Blue Organic Market.
With affordable property investment opportunities, you can give your family a fantastic lifestyle. To make East London home, contact a trusted property advisor at one of our 3 Harcourts offices in East London, Harcourts Mercantile, Harcourts Cornerstone or Harcourts Advantage.
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