The rural house as an anchor. In South Africa, there are different words for house and homestead. ... Doubters should visit places, like Bushbuckridge, and stand on a hill to survey the landscape.

The result is Art House Collection, an exclusive portfolio of high-end, art-focused villa rentals across South Africa. “There are so many beautiful homes that are not properly visible ...

The Western Cape, which has borders on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, is South Africa’s most active and most expensive market, with a median asking price of 2.5 million rand ($150,000).

It may have started in “The Warehouse” club, Chicago, but the center of the house music world has relocated. Today the biggest house market per capita anywhere in the world is South Africa.