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Hillcrest

Durban · KwaZulu-Natal

Typical price
R 1 900 000
Estimate
Typical rent
R 8 900 /month
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Gross yield
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12-month growth
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Yields and growth are Investor data - that plan opens soon.Each figure is tagged with its source: municipal valuation rolls brought up to today with Stats SA's Residential Property Price Index, Stats SA's index for growth, homes sold or let on Property HQ once a suburb has enough, or Property HQ's own rough-guide estimate. Live figures are worked out from asking prices in listings on Property HQ.

Upper-highway family suburb, cooler and greener.

For sale To rent

Crime statistics

Reported to Hillcrest police stationJan-Mar 2026vs Jan-Mar 2025
Burglary at residential premises 60-17%
Robbery at residential premises 23+21%
Carjacking 1-50%
Theft of motor vehicle and motorcycle 17+13%
Theft out of or from motor vehicle 15-57%
Murder 10-41%
Robbery with aggravating circumstances 43+23%
Common robbery 12+33%
Source: South African Police Service crime statistics for the Hillcrest station, which may cover more than Hillcrest. Reported crime only - not every crime is reported.

Power and water outages

Power

No outages reported

Water

No outages reported

In the last 90 days, as reported by Property HQ members who live here - not from the municipality or Eskom.

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Municipality: eThekwini

Unqualified, with matters raised (2023/24)

The accounts were reliable, but the Auditor-General raised matters worth knowing about (often compliance or performance reporting).

2019/20
2020/21
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24

5 of the last 5 audits were clean or unqualified - with no big change.

Source: Auditor-General outcomes via National Treasury's Municipal Money, checked 10 Nov 2026. Financial years run July to June. The municipality is matched from the suburb's position on the map.

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