u/Affectionate_Ship256

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I analysed 30 000 South African rental listings. Here's are some not so interesting facts about rents in 2026.

1. Cape Town tenants pay 11× more per square metre than Limpopo

2. That "pet-friendly" tag costs you 68% extra rent

3. Cape Town's MEDIAN rent is higher than JHB's 75th percentile

4. Same R10k/month gets you a 137m² home in Limpopo or a 50m² flat in Cape Town

5. Going from 2 to 3 bedrooms is the single most expensive upgrade

6. Listings on golf estates have been sitting on the market for 3 YEARS

7. Apartments cost 53% more per m² than houses

8. 38% of the entire rental market sits between R6k and R12k

9. The data has a tell: half of all listings don't include floor area

Full analysis : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iDIXZZo029Sg7PKdKqrRILOB_TNC6dCiqPHMSep6Cu4/edit?usp=sharing

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I had this question last night so i scraped more than 9000 listings and tried to build a model to the analysis ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fd73SH1Gfc26y_3a4wQ-ju-W2pIY5blPY_X_3FFP0IQ/edit?usp=sharing )

My model might be trash and obvisouly not exhaustive of all contributing factors but the raw data is factual based on listings (I made tried to make some of my biggest assumptions variables so that they can be changed to see how they affect the results)

Create you copy update with your own knowledge and assumptions, give us the results. If you are lazy you can post your knowledge and assumptions here and i will factor them in here and update the link