One, two and three bedrooms
Sectional-title homes in three sizes, from a one-bedroom to a three-bedroom, each with its own balcony.
Erand · Midrand · Gauteng
A secure address, halfway to everywhere.
Fountain View is a sectional-title estate of over two hundred one, two and three bedroom homes off 14th Road in Erand. Access-controlled gate, electric fencing, fibre in the ground, prepaid electricity and covered parking — and Midrand around it, midway between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
- —homes on the estate
- 1–3bedroom homes
- Fibrealready in the ground
- Midrandmidway between Johannesburg and Pretoria
The estate
Two hundred-odd front doors, one set of standards.
Fountain View sits at 71 14th Road in Erand, a few minutes off the N1 and the Allandale interchange. The homes are arranged in three-storey face-brick walk-ups around paved courtyards and a communal lawn, each with its own balcony and its own parking bay.
It is a body corporate, which means the owners run it themselves — they elect trustees, the trustees set the rules and the budget, a caretaker is on the estate day to day, and a managing agent handles the accounts. That is the difference you feel from the street: the paving is whole, the gardens are cut, and the gate works.
- Address71 14th Road, Erand, Midrand, 1685
- TypeSectional title, body corporate
- HomesOver 200
- SizesOne, two and three bedroom
- Run byElected trustees, on-site caretaker
The homes
What comes with the keys.
The things that decide whether a place is easy to live in are rarely the things in the photographs. These are the ones worth asking about anywhere else you look.
Prepaid electricity
Your own prepaid meter. You buy what you need, when you need it, and there is no municipal account to chase.
Fibre infrastructure
Fibre is already in the ground and into the buildings, so getting connected is a call to a provider rather than a project.
Covered parking
An allocated bay for every home, most of them under cover, with marked visitor bays kept free for guests.
Paved throughout
Brick paving across the whole estate - the roadways, the parking and the walkways. No dust, no mud after rain.
Gardens and open lawn
Landscaped common areas and an open lawn, maintained on a standing schedule rather than when somebody complains.
Security
One way in, and it is watched.
The estate has a single entrance — a gatehouse and a controlled gate, on tags and remotes issued to residents. Nobody drifts in behind somebody else, because the whole perimeter is walled and there is nowhere else to come through.
- Access-controlled entrance. A gatehouse at the single gate, with residents on tags and remotes and visitors admitted rather than assumed.
- Electric fencing. The walled perimeter carries electric fencing along its length.
- Taken seriously. Misusing the gate — tailgating, propping it open, lending a tag — is a finable breach, and it is enforced.
- Kept working. The gate, the fencing and the lighting sit on a standing maintenance schedule that raises its own jobs.
Facilities
What is on the other side of the gate.
Shared spaces the levy pays for, maintained on a schedule rather than when somebody complains.
Clubhouse
A hall with its own serving counter, opening onto the braai courtyard and the lawn. Residents book it through the caretaker for birthdays and family gatherings.
Communal braai area
A paved courtyard with a run of built-in braais along the wall, next to the clubhouse and screened off from the parking.
Playground and lawn
An open lawn with a jungle gym and slide, set back from the roadways so smaller children have somewhere to be without crossing traffic.
Parking and grounds
Covered bays along every block, paved courtyards between the buildings, and the gardens kept up all year.
Location
Midrand, which is the whole point.
Midrand sits midway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, on the N1 and on the Gautrain line. If one of you works in Sandton and the other in Centurion, this is the address that stops the argument — and Erand puts the interchange, the station and the mall within a few minutes of the gate.
Shopping and eating
- Mall of Africa and Waterfall City
- Boulders Shopping Centre
- Carlswald lifestyle and décor centres
Getting around
- Midrand Gautrain station — Sandton a couple of stops one way, Pretoria the other
- The N1 at the Allandale interchange
- Grand Central Airport
Work and business
- Vodaworld and the Vodacom campus
- The Waterfall City office parks
- Gallagher Convention Centre
Schools and sport
- Reddam House at Waterfall, and a choice of other public and private schools
- Virgin Active and Planet Fitness within a few minutes
- Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit
Commuting either way. The N1 at Allandale runs south to Sandton and Johannesburg and north to Centurion and Pretoria, and the Midrand Gautrain station takes the traffic out of the decision altogether.
Governance
An estate is only as good as the people running it.
Anybody can photograph a clubhouse. What is harder to show, and matters more three years in, is whether decisions get made, written down and carried out. Fountain View is run on a system built for exactly that, and this is what it means in practice.
Owners elect the trustees
Trustees are elected by the owners and set the budget and the rules. A caretaker is on site day to day; a managing agent handles the accounts.
Decisions are recorded
Every meeting has an agenda, attendance and a quorum, and its minutes are compiled from the notes taken in the room. Decisions become resolutions on a register that can be looked up.
Actions carry a name and a date
What a meeting agrees to do is assigned to somebody with a due date, and it is chased until it is closed. Nothing quietly lapses between one meeting and the next.
Maintenance is on a schedule
Gardens, common areas, the gate and the perimeter run on standing schedules that raise their own work orders — each one with a photograph, a priority and somebody's name against it.
Contractors are under contract
Service providers are held to written terms with agreed service levels, expiry dates that are diarised, and performance reviewed rather than renewed out of habit.
Conduct rules, applied evenly
The trustees have adopted a set of conduct rules. Where one is breached it is cited by name, with evidence, and the household is told before anything reaches an account.
For residents
Most of it you can do without phoning anybody.
The resident portal is where your own record lives. Sign in with the username the estate office issued you — if you do not have one yet, ask and it will be set up.
Your statements
Every statement for your home as it was issued, and anything outstanding against the unit, with the reason for it.
Report a fault
A leak, a light, a gate. Log it with a photograph and it is triaged into a work order — you can see where it got to rather than wondering.
Give notice to move out
Start the move-out yourself: your last day, a forwarding address. The caretaker acknowledges it, walks the unit, and you are issued a certificate at hand-over.
Contact
Come and see it.
For a viewing, an account for the portal, or anything to do with your own account. Faults are better logged in the portal, where they are tracked.
Homes here come up on Property24 and Private Property — see what is on the market.
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Telephone +27 (0) 10 036 0105
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Email brinelle@saproperty.com