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Your luxury home from home. This spacious luxury home features 6 bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms, offering ample space for guests. It comes complete with a fully equipped kitchen, a comfortable dining area, and a welcoming living room. Entertainer’s dream, swimming pool, large patios.
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The Love Of Property And Home Improvements Brought Us Together
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Who We Are
Yoni Titi and her husband, Paulo Chaves, met on a flight from the USA into South Africa nearly 12 years ago – sitting next to each other and spending hours debating and sharing ideas on their common and biggest passion – property. Hours of this conversation turned into a first date. After their third date they were comfortable to spend their days at Builders Warehouse and in décor stores in Kramerville, Sandton.
Paulo with his civil engineering background, specialising in construction across from Portugal, 8 Years USA and 6 Years of Angola was the natural technical behind their debates. Yoni – with a natural eye for finesse and the most beautiful appeal in life experiences and a self-taught interior décor professional, brought the complimentary combination to this unassumed team. The team only after 3 dates was constituted in residential property spin offs. Both from different backgrounds, Poeuese to an Umthatha girl with a strong Xhosa personality the dream grew on – from designing own landscaping and spending weekends in building the rounds and braking bricks and mortar to the ultimate end goal.
Yoni, an MBA graduate (International Busines) of Edinburgh University and exchange student to Yok University (Schulich School of Business) graduate has always been entreprerial at heart. Despite prior family financial constraints of upbringing she made her first biggest mark in Human Capital value chain in SA with a stellar performance until her official bow down at 40 to pursue her passion in property and full-time motherly responsibilies. Her own words “I was encouraged by great mentors and had reached my prsk. But I hsd not fulfilled my hobby until I gave my efforts in being a brand ambassador to our tourism industry through my property passion offering. Here w are now with great excitement”
Our daughter, Faith, has been an inspiration in all this work and earn her stipend over the properties in watering our baby flowers – as she is no longer a baby herslf! Now a business partner!
Paulo, born to Portuguese parents and having left South Africa in 1992, took a leap of faith to join his new found love and return to the country of his formative upbringing – South Africa – and to actively invest in the South African property market and find opportunity for their passion to build a business anchored on cost effective home renovations in the residential market. Their passion and infectious personalities for home renovations has grown to serve home makers interested in transforming spaces into their home – with advice that is practical, homely and cost effective to make for beautiful spaces and family experiences for years to come.
Who We Are
Yoni Titi
Yoni Titi-Chaves, a successful business entrepreneur born and raised in Umtata, in the Eastern Cape, SA, graduated from the prestigious Edinburgh University, Scotland with a Masters in Business. Administration (MBA – International Business) and later graduated from Georgetown University, Washington DC. Raised in an entrepreneurial home, she always knew her place in the world was in creating than ‘maintaining”. Having served her legal articles with top law firm, Bowman Gilfillan, then Legal Advisor at Investec Bank – after which headed up Legal, Risk and Compliance for First National Bank (Retail Investments), she used her savings to begin her aspirational journey in the South African property market at age 25 years old – acquiring small flats and renovating these and creating value in pursuit of her passion and interest. A Nelson Mandela scholar of outstanding credentials, she has spent years in social upliftment and in creating employment in living her dreams in property development.
Who We Are
Paulo Chaves
Paulo Chaves, graduated from Universidade Moderna – Lisboa with a Bachelors in Engineering (Civil). Following his family’s move back to Portugal he was adamant to keep his passion and keen interest in infrastructure development alive. He left the comfort of family and home in Lisbon for the United States of America where he spent 8 years. He worked for well-known construction companies including Perform Concrete (major subcontractor of Hobbs) as well as to Turner Construction, respectively, – who were subcontracted to major residential projects in the exclusive residential areas and to celebrities in New York of Greenwich Connecticut, Pond Ridge, White Plains, Harrison and Ridgefield Connecticut. It is most entertaining to watch his larger than life extrovert personality tell stories of multi million rand dollar kitchens that celebrities changed their mind on overnight and to replace with more million dollar revised version – whilst his conscious spoke to the struggling majority he had experienced not only in Africa but through his professional nomadic take on seeing the world. It was no surprise, after 8 years in USA construction industry, when he gravitated towards home soil when he joined CFRL in Angola for 4.5 yrs working on projects in public works, sanitation and commercial.
He returned to his birth country where he had only had the privilege to enjoy for first 18 months of his life, Mozambique, to acquire land and develop in the residential space – a business he continues to oversee from nearby Johannesburg, South Africa until now. Until he met his match 10 years ago, South Africa became home. A devotated father to four year old Faith and his dog Chappo he is fulfilled in his property passion.