Onze Molen Retirement Centre

New Life Community Services is a collection of diverse retirement centres located in Durbanville.

Each village has carefully been centred around building a vibrant social community as its core. A place where the elderly can comfortably, easily, and seamlessly transition into their ‘new season of life’.

The villages each boast their own style and range of on-site services, such as 24hr security, centralized frail care, shopping shuttle, and independent meals services.  The 3 unique retirement villages with a centralized care centre, and a community social justice arm.

The oldest in the group and built in 2001, Onze Molen is warm and homely and has the Centralised New Life Care Centre on-site.  This 20-bed Care Centre caters for the whole New Life Group consisting of Onze Molen, Manor on Lord’s Walk and Vygeboom. 

Unit Prices

The grounds at Onze Molen boast luscious gardens, open braai areas, and ample parking.

The units are arranged in clusters, centralized around a large social meeting area, dining hall, and patio. This has created a vibrant community amongst residents who drive a thriving social culture.

Onze Molen has 35 Life Right units compromising of Bachelor, 1 & 2 bedroom apartments ranging between R890 000 & R1 690 000, with no transfer fees applicable.

General Information

Life rights developments are growing in popularity in South Africa. They offer a more cost-effective and less onerous option for retirees than an investment in regular property types.

Essentially life rights could be viewed as a housing product, an insurance policy, and a good night’s sleep all rolled into one. With a lower financial barrier to entry, than a sectional title or freehold house, Life Rights are an attractive option for those living on a fixed retirement income.

‘Life Right’ refers to a property contract whereby a resident enjoys the same privileges as if the home was purchased in a freehold or sectional title manor, except that the developer of the home remains the sole owner of the property. This means the security of tenure until death. As such, much like in a marriage, it’s a two-way long-term commitment. The developer or sectional 21 organization is every bit as dependent on the health of the relationship as is every resident of the development.

Life Right purchase has not got a property transfer – there are no bond registration fees, no transfer duties and no VAT payable, thus avoiding the negative effects that such additional costs can have upon discretionary income and estate values.

When it comes monthly costs, Life Right provides all the advantages of regular homeownership without the cost or hassle of insurance, home maintenance, garden upkeep, domestic workers, repairs and security upgrades. All property management, maintenance, and upkeep fall to the developer or section 21 organization as the owner of the property. No body corporates or slow trusts to work through. In this Life Right model there is mutual risk. As a result, there is protection for the resident against unforeseen hidden costs and special levies so often seen in a sectional title or whole owner models.

Services available to residents in this village includes:

• A Blood Pressure Clinic, run by a qualified nurse (vital signs are also monitored)
• Travelling Hairdresser
• A Shopping Shuttle, taking our residents to do their weekly grocery shopping
• Regular Shuttle Outings to coffee shops, wine estates, the V&A WaterFront, and other scenic spots
• Weekly game sessions
• Panic Button System - Residents are all required to have a panic button with them at all times. Each owner will be issued with a panic button which is linked to Halt Security, which operates 24/7. Activation of the panic button (once off R750 for button) will result in immediate transmission of 3 text messages (neighbour, next of kin, Halt security). Halt security will determine if this is a medical or security emergency and will dispatch the appropriate response team
• Residents are guaranteed a place in our Frail Care at Vygeboom with a 10% discount on the monthly rates

Bachelor ±22m²
 

1 Bed ±40m²
 

2 Bed ±60m²
 

3 Bed ±67m²
 

Assisted Living
All units

Operational Care
Centre at Onze Molen

For more information, contact us here.

You are also welcome to register on our waiting list through this link