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Your homebuying companion in South Africa. We guide you from 'Where should I live?' all the way through your offer — aligned with you on the outcome and transparent about our referral partners.

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BoyWonder Investments (Pty) Ltd is a registered South African company operating as a buyer-focused property advisory service. We earn referral fees from vetted partners (such as bond origination and home inspections), and we may charge a clearly-disclosed service fee for hands-on support — for example drafting your Offer to Purchase or managing your transaction through to transfer. Any fee is agreed with you upfront, in writing, before work begins. We'll always tell you when a recommendation involves a referral partner.

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  1. Decided to buy
  2. 2Searching
  3. 3Found a house
  4. 4Offer accepted
Stage 2 of 4

See ten homes. Remember every one.

Ten minutes in a house isn't enough to remember it — and after the twentieth viewing they all blur together. The free Scetra viewing tool walks you through each home room by room, so nothing slips and no house talks you out of your own standards.

Start hereWorks offline · Free · No sign-up
Your viewing tool

Log every viewing, room by room

Walk each home room by room and capture what you actually saw — damp, cracks, plumbing, the lot — right on your phone. It rolls up the issues that show up in more than one room, records your gut feel, and lets you compare homes side by side so the twentieth viewing doesn't blur into the first.

Open the viewing toolAdd it to your home screen at the door — it opens instantly, even with no signal.

Prefer paper? Print the checklist to take with you instead.

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Where the tool fits in your search

Viewing is where it all comes together — but the two moves that lead up to it keep you in control, each with something to help.

  1. 01

    Define what you're really after

    Anchor your non-negotiables and real budget before the market talks you out of them.

    Your wishlist & budget
  2. 02

    Shortlist — read past the listing

    A listing is written to make you fall in love. Get an independent read on the area first.

    Read our guides
  3. 03

    View, compare and decide — in one place

    Log each home room by room as you walk it. The viewing tool surfaces what repeats across rooms and keeps ten homes from blurring into one.

    The viewing tool

Keep yourself honest

What you said mattered when your head was clear. Check every serious candidate against it.

Nothing saved yet? Set your budget and wishlist first — it takes a few minutes and makes everything after this easier.

What the listing won't tell you

What decides whether it's a good buy is rarely in the photos — and the only person in the room is paid by the seller.

Is the price actually fair?

Comparable achieved sales — not the asking price in isolation — tell you what it's really worth.

What will it cost to live there?

Rates, levies, pending special levies and body-corporate health can change the monthly maths entirely.

What's hidden behind the finishes?

Unapproved building work, servitudes and planned developments next door are knowable — and never in the room.

Why is it really selling?

How long it's been listed and what's not shown in the photos often say more than the listing does.

Prefer a shortlist of good agents?

Tell us your area and we'll hand-pick a list of active agents within 24 hours. Free — and we still work for you, not them.

Sent within 24 hours · free
Next stage

Found the one? Don't sign anything yet.

The moment you make an offer, everything gets decided — often in one evening, on the seller's paperwork. It's the highest-stakes point in the journey. Let's get it checked first.

Go to Stage 3 — I've found a house