Waterstone East Property

Waterstone East property is a spectacular development of 112 low-rise, walk-up apartments and 13 townhouses.

The development is which is bounded on two sides by navigable canals and accessed off a palm-lined bricked piazza.

The apartments, built over a podium of covered parking, have been designed to meet market dictates and include studio units which provide entry level accommodation within a low-rise development situated in beautifully landscaped gardens with recreational facilities. Most of the studio apartments have normally only been available in high-rise inner city blocks.

The apartments are set in beautifully landscaped gardens with a stream running through it and featuring a swimming pool, small kids play park and an older kids kick-ball oval. It offers a high level of security with perimeter fencing and access control.

All apartments at Waterstone East boast generous proportions and all have terraces and/or balconies. Studio apartments average about 40m²; one bedroom apartments range in size from 54m^{2 to} 59m²   and two-bedroom apartments from 75m² to 81m². These sizes exclude balconies.

The ground floor apartments have both terraces and walled yards providing a total of 25m² of private outdoor space. The higher apartments have 7m² balconies with the top floor apartments having built in braais on their balconies while some have additional private rooftop gardens leading off their bathrooms.

Studio and one bedroom units each have one undercover parking bay and two bedroom units have two parking bays.

The majority of apartments have north-facing bedrooms, living rooms and balconies and have been designed to offer maximum privacy with stair galleries, designed as a feature tower and clearly demarcated in colour and signage, each providing access to only two apartments per floor.

Waterstone East was designed by leading architects Maas & Coetzee, the architectural style of Waterstone East is classically modern but not over-trendy to ensure a timelessness to the development, says architect Denis Maas of Maas & Coetzee.   Roofs of the apartment blocks are a mixture of tiled low-pitch hips and flat-roofed links which, together with variations in height, break the scheme up into people-friendly massing. The architecture of the apartments complements both the townhouses and the villas.

The three bedroom townhouses, which all front onto a 12m to 14m wide canal, are generously sized at around 146m^2. Each has a single garage, three additional parking bays, a ground floor terrace and a private pocket back garden. With mid-level entry, the bedrooms - all en-suite- are downstairs with the living area upstairs flowing onto balcony terraces with built-in braais overlooking the water.

The lifestyle offered by Waterstone East property is symbolic of a new world-wide trend in the development of cities - the creation of housing which appeals to, and caters for, as wide a cross-section of ages as possible, thus reinforcing a traditional sense of "community".  With the myriad waterways and walkways of Century City available on your doorstep - canoeing, jogging, cycling, walking - not to mention the proximity of Canal Walk Shopping Centre and an ever-growing office component, Waterstone is indeed an address that will continue to be most sought-after.

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