Century City is a prime-tier Class A submarket of Cape Town with average asking rent around R160/sqm/mo · ≈ $9.63 PSF/yr USD.

  • Master-planned suburban Class A.
  • Prime tier — ~R160/sqm/mo.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Century City, Cape Town — Class A submarket

Master-planned suburban Class A. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: R160/sqm/mo · ≈ $9.63 PSF/yr USD

TL;DR

  • Master-planned suburban Class A.
  • Prime tier — ~R160/sqm/mo.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Overview

Century City anchors Cape Town's principal master-planned suburban Class A market — Bridgeways Precinct, deep insurance and banking tenancy.

Tenant profile

Insurance, banking, tech, professional services.

Typical specification

15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.

Transit

Century City Station (Metrorail), MyCiti.

Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.

Amenities

Canal Walk Mall, Century City retail.

Comparable buildings

  • Bridgeways Precinct
  • Convention Centre Office
  • Century City Square

Where Century City sits in Cape Town

Century City is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Cape Town, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around R160/sqm/mo · ≈ $9.63 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Cape Town Class A stock, Century City typically attracts Insurance, banking, tech, professional services and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.

Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Century City: CBD & Foreshore, V&A Waterfront, Claremont & Newlands, Woodstock & Salt River. The full Cape Town submarket atlas is at /cities/cape-town.

Topic deep-dives for Century City

For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Century City, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:

Related glossary

Terminology specific to Cape Town Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.

Editorial provenance

Reviewed by Samuel Okafor — EMEA contributing editor. Last updated 2026-04-15. See our methodology and editorial standards.

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