The season’s first genuinely warm weekends have arrived in Johannesburg this September, and at One on Anne in Sandringham the communal outdoor areas are being used again every day. Offering one, two and three bedroom apartments in an established green suburb on the city’s eastern side, the development moves into the warmer months with units ready to occupy and its sun deck, plunge pool and braai areas open to residents. Timing counts for renters who passed the winter indoors and are now deciding where to commit their next lease. An apartment is more than the rooms behind the front door. It is equally about what lies beyond it.
One on Anne has been putting forward exactly this argument since it first opened, and it explains why the team frames Sandringham rentals as a lifestyle choice instead of a strictly financial one. The apartments suit lifestyle focused renters after an affordable home that does not sacrifice the things that make a suburb enjoyable to live in. On that measure Sandringham holds up. Green and leafy, rich in mature trees, served by tidy public parks and backed by visible security, the suburb invites outdoor living and an active, quality lifestyle. Come September, that quality stops being a promise and becomes plain to see.
What the warmer months open up on site
Within the development, the list of amenities centres on shared outdoor living. Residents have a sun deck, a plunge pool and braai areas. There is greenspace as well as an outdoor exercise area. Each unit comes with a gas hob, and the water is gas heated, so a Saturday braai and the hot shower that follows do not lean on one overloaded electrical circuit. Living and dining areas run open plan and spill out onto a garden or balcony according to the unit, keeping the step from indoors to outdoors a small one.
Such features are plain enough to list yet rare enough to find bundled together at this level of the rental market. In a secure complex, a plunge pool and a braai area are usually what renters assume they forfeit the moment they swap a house for a flat. At One on Anne they are part of the lease. That goes a long way to explaining why the development pitches its apartments to rent in Sandringham at young professionals, couples and small families rather than one narrow audience. The same shared spaces suit a couple who like to host, a family after a safe stretch of lawn and a professional who wants a swim once the workday ends.
Security that makes outdoor time usable
People only make use of outdoor amenities when they feel safe doing so, which is why the security setup at One on Anne deserves a clear account. The development runs offsite CCTV monitoring, access control, a secure perimeter and secure parking. It has 24 hour off-site security, high walls and electric fencing. Past the boundary wall, Community Active Patrol covers the surrounding area, and that coverage is what lets residents exercise and socialise across the tree-lined suburb instead of remaining behind the gate.
In practice, the on-site outdoor exercise area and the parks beyond it fold into one routine. Just 200 metres from the apartments, Jabula Recreation Centre provides a host of activities for young and old. For a calmer afternoon, Gilooly’s Farm is close at hand. The prestigious 36-hole Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club sits a stone’s throw away. A renter who wants to stroll to somewhere green on a Sunday morning without first reaching for the car will struggle to find that mix anywhere else at this price point across the northern and eastern suburbs.
Built for the way people live and work now
Fibre ready and enviro-conscious, the development draws on solar or gas, low energy glazing, a borehole where available, energy-efficient LED lighting throughout and natural ventilation. Water and electricity run on pre paid meters, so residents track their usage in real time rather than facing it as a month-end shock. A backup water supply is in place. Interiors are modern and finished to a high standard, and the apartments enjoy scenic views of the Jabula Recreation Centre and Linksfield Ridge.
In a suburb that has attracted a steady flow of work-from-home entrepreneurs, high speed fibre readiness is no minor footnote. One on Anne suits that crowd thanks to its closeness to essential amenities, straightforward highway access to both the M1 and the N3, and the short run to OR Tambo International Airport for those who travel for work. Someone running a business from a spare room can take a morning call, walk to a local shop over lunch and slip into the plunge pool before dinner, with no commute bookending the day.
The neighbourhood around the lease
Sandringham is a fairly small suburb carrying the charm of a long established community, and it has picked up fresh momentum as younger families and professionals have arrived. A number of the original houses go back to the years after the Second World War, and many have since been renovated for modern living. Turnover stays minimal, which gives the suburb a very stable property market, and residents take pride in the area’s cultural diversity and strong sense of community.
Everyday convenience is right at hand. The apartments lie a mere 50 metres from a wide variety of neighbourhood shops, while Greenstone and Eastgate Shopping Centres, Norwood Mall, Balfour Park, the Rosebank hub and the upmarket Neighbourhood Square retail and leisure hub all sit within a short drive. Less than two kilometres away are Netcare Linksfield, a private hospital, and Netcare Linkwood, a mother and baby facility. The area counts a number of top schools, among them Saheti, St Andrews, King David and Yeshiva College, alongside synagogues, churches and other places of worship. For a family building a lease around the school run, that list frequently decides things before the floor plan is even considered.
Choosing a lease in September
There is a sound case for inspecting a rental in spring rather than deep in winter. Warm weather reveals a development truthfully. It shows whether the shared spaces genuinely get used, whether the greenspace is kept up, whether the braai areas are somewhere people really gather, and whether the neighbourhood walks as well as the marketing claims. A September viewing at Sandringham Apartments hands a prospective tenant the version of the building they will inhabit for most of the lease, not its closed-up winter counterpart.
The leasing calendar backs the timing too. Renters aiming to move before the December shutdown tend to begin the search now, and One on Anne has units available immediately across the one, two and three bedroom configurations. Virtual walkthroughs of the two and three bedroom layouts are on offer for anyone who wants to view the space ahead of booking an inspection, which helps people relocating to Johannesburg from another city or from overseas.
Across Johannesburg’s eastern suburbs, the wider rental market has favoured developments that deliver more than four walls. Tenants now read the fine print more carefully on what their money buys, and secure parking, backup water, pre paid utilities and gas heated water increasingly register as risk management rather than luxury. One on Anne provides all of these without billing them as add-ons, which is why the development tends to resonate with renters who have previously lived somewhere that did not.
Complete information on availability, unit layouts and the amenity list can be found on the One on Anne website at https://oneonanne.co.za/.
About One on Anne
One on Anne is a residential apartment development in Sandringham, an established green suburb of Johannesburg, offering one, two and three bedroom lifestyle apartments to rent. The apartments are designed for young professionals, couples and small families, with open plan living areas leading onto a garden or balcony, modern interiors and high quality finishes. The development is fibre ready and enviro-conscious, using gas or solar, low energy glazing, energy-efficient LED lighting and natural ventilation, and it offers pre paid water and electricity, a backup water supply, secure parking, access control, a secure perimeter and offsite CCTV monitoring. Shared amenities include a sun deck, a plunge pool, braai areas, greenspace and an outdoor exercise area, with Jabula Recreation Centre, neighbourhood shops, private hospitals and a number of well-known schools all close by.
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