 Welcome back to Afternoon Express on 3. Now, it's that time of the show. It's time for Winner Home on Afternoon Express, where we follow our three talented young design contestants as they turn three empty apartments into dream homes at the Polo Village at Felderby Estate in the Cape Wildlands. And the best part is that you, the viewer, stand a chance of winning one of the completed apartments valued at over three million rand. Now, this week, we met our three Winner Home judges, our property finance expert, as well as our three young design contestants. Joanne Fenter from Blumfontein and her mentor, the editor-in-chief of VC Magazine, so Min Fenter. Then from Durban, we've got Milen Tule and his mentor, the editor of Elle Decoration Magazine, Bill Bellingham, and Rudolf Jordan, along with his mentor, the editor of Real Estate Magazine, Michelle Snadden. In case you missed any of the action, here's one more look at our mentors. I'm Sumin Brink, and I'm the editor of VC Magazine. Because I've been in the industry for such a long time, my style is quite a complicated style. It's a little bit of new, a little bit of old, with a little bit of madness thrown in. I'm so excited. What I'm looking for is an enormous amount of talent, enthusiasm, the willingness to actually do the hard work, and just to be fearlessly creative. I don't think I've ever been a mentor to anybody, so this is a great challenge for me. And I hope we have a fantastic working relationship, because I think if you've got a good relationship with somebody that you work with, half the battle is won. Obviously, we are hoping to win, and hoping our contestant to win. And I think we want to show South Africa something that I've never seen before, something that is totally unique, and something that everybody wants to live in. I'm Belle Bellingham. I'm the editor of Elle Decoration Magazine. I define my personal style as evolving. I definitely have a tendency towards glamour. No matter what the trend is, I'm always going to gravitate towards things with a story to tell. What am I looking for in my design contestant? Someone who's very hardworking. You can be good at anything if you're really committed to working the hardest at it. I think also someone who just doesn't love with it as we are. That's the big thing about working together in teams. It's very trendy to collaborate and to co-create in all of these trendy words. I want to have some fun. We are styling. We are doing day-call design. It's a subjective, emotional, very personal thing. So I really hope that we have the same preferences. If we don't, I really hope we can be friends. My team work with me every day. They understand that they are tough, but I'm a little bit nervous that I might be a bit tough on the contestant. So I want the end product here to be really something spectacular. And in order to get there, you can't be a sissy. My name is Michelle Snabdin. I'm editor of Real Estate Magazine. My personal style is based around my story, my life story. And so for me, coming home is all about coming to somewhere that's really comfortable, but I love good art, photography, books. Home without books is a home without a soul. It's not just about the basics, about the soul space, and it's about your history. It's about your heritage, and it's what has a sense of meaning for you. What's really amazing is now that there are top architects working on those developments. It's so much more exciting, it's space to play and than it used to be. The trend is huge. I like to be a collaborative mentor, someone who helps network the young designer with the networks that we have in the magazine. When you move in a project like this, it's about the budget, it's the final vision for the development space that's really important. I really want to work with someone who's got quite a clear vision and to watch how those are shaped into a very defined competition space. The designer needs to work within that space, yet give it character, give it some meaning. Sure, our design contestants are definitely in the safest of hands. Now, it really is true when they say location, location, location. This season of Winner Home, we really are on one of the most beautiful locations in the country. Valdivy, located between the stunning family-friendly and particularly a culinary dream, Franschuk, this is where you want to call home for sure. Joining us on the couch again is Valdivy marketing director, Rek Niertling. I mean, you've had lots of places to live around the world and you've particularly chosen Valdivy as home. What is your favourite thing about living then? Why an estate living? I think for me now, you've got all the amenities that somebody like myself. I mean, we've got, soon we'll have three gyms so you can pick and choose where you want to go exercise. You've got more than 30 kilometres of, you know, running trails or mountain bike trails. You've got one of the best golf courses in the country. You've got the polar fields, all their question facilities. It's incredibly beautiful. I've travelled all over the world. I haven't found a place that has that beauty. And so for me, it's really everything that I need or ever dreamt of. No one, I definitely don't think anyone's ever going to be complaining about it, but I mean, I've heard a lot of people say that estate living or living outside of city centres is quite tough, especially if you're still working at the same time I want to commute and you've obviously had lots of options to live in cities, you've lived in towns. Why the choice to live slightly further out on a sort of estate as opposed to living in town centres? What are the benefits? Yeah, I think, you know, today, I think the whole sense of work has also changed. So we've got fibre to all the homes so you can work from home very easily. It's only 20 minutes to Durbanville. You can, if you travel off-peak. But, you know, Paul is growing and it's got everything that you need. I mean, I drove here in less than 40 minutes and you can come in for dinner if you want here. And so it's really got everything. And like I said, I couldn't be happier and especially for an active person and for young families. Really everything there and it's incredibly safe. I think about 60% of our buyers come from Khating. Unfortunately, it's not that safe in Khating and they're looking for safety and we know it as one of the safest estates in Africa. So the family can be very safe when the breadwinner has to go out there and go work. Yeah, and the state is always looking to expand. I mean, not only do you call it home, I mean, you also work for the estate as well, which is incredible. And you guys have got the new polar village which has been built and that's where our homes are going to be this year round. What is so special about that spot and should our contestants be keeping something in the back of their mind about what they should be creating? Yes, it was a new product for us. So apartments, you know, historically we just sold land and people would build a dream home. Then we went for something a little bit different. You know, these apartments, they were designed by Stefan Antony who's arguably the best known architect, I think, in Africa. And so it's right in the hub. It's close to the restaurant. It's close to the action. That's why it's called the polar village. It's a lock up and go. So for people that live in Khating, if they want to fly down for the weekend close to Franschuk in the wildlands, all the restaurants is there. We've got a 24-hour concierge service. So, you know, spur of the moment, you want to book table at your favorite restaurant. We can do that for you if you need a ride. We can take care of everything. So it's really like a full service package. And I'm very interested to see what the contestants come up with. Sure. At least we don't have any other reason to live that you've just given us about a million, which is amazing. But what about the surrounds of the area? Because, Paul, not a lot of people know about, but I mean, it's like sitting in, like just close to Stelenbosch and that's one of the great economic hubs of our country as well. I mean, what are I in the surrounds? I know there are a lot of really good schools. It actually is a growing area that's going to be one you want to invest in. Yes, you know, Paul is a little gem. It's quiet, but it's beautiful. It's got arguably one of the... You know, some of the best schools in the country. So that's a big driver of our sales. We're pretty much right in the middle between Paul and Franschuk. And we're building a bridge across the Berg River that will make it less than 15 minutes into Stelenbosch. Obviously, the university is there. Some top financial firms have the headquarters there. So we really situated right in the heart of the Wynlands. And like I said, there's something for everybody, especially mountain biking. Now it's become such a big sport and you can literally just go out the gate and you're in the mountains and it's quite safe. One of our contestants is in fact a mountain biker. So I think he's going to be excited to explore that sort of avenue of where you guys are going in. Stefan Antony, obviously being the designer of the Polo Village, there's a lot of collaboration going on here. And we're getting incredibly excited about this collaboration. I hope you are too. And what are you most excited for with Wynland? Yeah, I'm excited to see, obviously, how they interpret the estate. And I think this year, obviously, I've, you know, like I've also followed the show over the last couple of years, but I think this year the teams are, you know, all this expertise and experience there. So it's going to be really something special. And we're going to be able to sell it again afterwards. And I'm very excited to see that. Exactly. And hopefully we get some ideas for future phases that we can launch and we can take their inputs and design an even better product. They're young and they're super talented and they're locally produced, which is really exciting. Right, it's so good to have you. I hope we'll catch up with you as we go. And I'll probably be seeing you in the Polo estate a few times throughout this period of Wynland. Cool. Thank you very much for having me. Sure, it's an absolute pleasure. This place is absolutely breathtaking. I can tell you that much. I've been there enough times to know that I'm going to call this place home at some point in my life. It offers more than just a home, but a lifestyle. It's perfectly situated and beautifully designed. And this is truly one of a kind. Now, every weekday, we follow our talented three design contestants as they turn empty properties at Valdivia State in the Cape Wynland into dream homes using finishes provided by Caesar Stone and Plaskon. And the best part is that you can enter the grand prize competition on privateproperty.co.za. You can stand a chance to win a finished apartment. It's valued at over three million rand people. Now, Winner Home is proudly brought to you by Private Property in association with NetBank. We'll be right back.