South Africans are increasingly moving to these areas with the best-run municipalities

AS South Africans grapple with poor levels of service delivery countrywide, an increasing number of people are moving to areas with a strong track record of good municipal management, say property experts at Chas Everitt.

The group said this is most evident in the recent property sales records along the Western Cape coast that fall into the Overstrand and Cape Agulhas municipalities.

These two local authorities were recently named as the best performers on the News24 Out of Order Index, and are also among only seven of more than 280 local authorities in South Africa to have achieved a clean audit for more than four years, according to the Auditor-General’s 2019/20 report.

Overstrand, which includes the towns of Hermanus, Gansbaai and Kleinmond, has registered clean audits for the past eight years, and Cape Agulhas has done the same for the past seven years.

“And homebuyers have actually been voting