Retail Space To Let
Retail space Tyger Valley
72 m² Retail space to let in 78 On Edward

Who This Space Is Best Suited For
- Retail
- Tech or digital businesses needing reliable connectivity
- Operations requiring uninterrupted power
About This Space
78 On Edward is a A-grade retail space development located in Tyger Valley. The building features fibre connectivity, backup power, 24-hour security and easy freeway access.
72m² Retail space for lease in 78 On Edward, Tyger Valley, with ample natural light from extensive glass shopfronts. We see this unit being ideal for a retail or showroom business looking to make an impression in a vibrant area.
The floor features an open grey-box layout that maximizes versatility. The unit is currently undergoing renovations, leaving it as a blank canvas with raw concrete flooring and high ceilings defined by a striking dark coffered design. Large floor-to-ceiling windows frame the front, providing excellent visibility for displays and a bright atmosphere throughout the space. The design allows for flexible configurations, accommodating everything from merchandise displays to customer service counters with ease.
Located within the established 78 On Edward, this unit is positioned near the Tyger Valley Shopping Centre, offering excellent foot traffic and visibility. The gross rental rate is R306 per square meter, resulting in a total of R22,032 per month. Ample open parking bays available on street at no additional cost, providing added convenience for both staff and customers. The building features easy truck access and fibre internet connectivity, ensuring that your business operates smoothly. Location wise, it's easy accessible via the N1 Freeway and Willie Van Schoor Drive with nearby public transport stops.
Whether you're searching for a retail space, showroom, or boutique, this unit delivers a bright and airy environment that can be tailored to fit your brand's unique needs. With its prime location and adaptable layout, you’ll be well-positioned to attract customers and grow your business.
Property features:
- Gross rental: R22,032/month
- Rate: R306/sqm
- Fibre internet connectivity
- Easy Access
- Ample Free Open Parking
Financial Information
All rentals exclude VAT & utilities. Confirm charge periods and which charges are included in the quoted rental with the broker.
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Key Features
- Fibre Internet
- Backup Power
- 24hr Security
- Access Control
- Air Conditioning
- Natural Light
- Freeway Access
- Public Transport
About the Building
Explore flexible mixed use to let at 78 On Edward in Tyger Valley, with excellent amenities and security. Mixed use to let in Tyger Valley, 78 On Edward is an A-Grade mixed-use property on Edward Road, featuring contemporary ground-floor retail shops, flexible office spaces, and multi-level parking. You’ll notice the building's strategic location just minutes from the N1 on-ramp at Sable Road, making commuting easy for employees and clients alike. Public transport options are readily available, with the MyCiTi T01 bus stopping nearby. The surrounding area is bustling with amenities including Tygervalley Mall, Virgin Active, and popular eateries like Nando's and Vida e Caffè, all within a short distance. The design of 78 On Edward supports a variety of businesses, making it ideal for professional services, retail operators, and service businesses. The ground floor retail component enhances visibility while the office spaces above provide a productive work environment. The building is equipped with 24/7 security, controlled access, and reliable high-speed fibre internet, ensuring that tenants have the resources they need to thrive. Most tenants here benefit from ample parking facilities, with multiple secure parking bays available for both staff and visitors. The green-rated building also features a borehole water supply for non-potable use, showcasing its commitment to sustainability. Compared to other commercial options in the area, 78 On Edward offers a flexible space that can adapt to various business needs without sacrificing accessibility or security. The Tyger Valley node is known for its mix of commercial and retail enterprises, making it a vibrant area for businesses looking to establish a presence. It attracts a diverse range of tenants due to its ease of access and proximity to residential areas such as Bellville and Durbanville, providing a steady commuter base. The combination of flexible unit sizes and excellent amenities makes this building particularly suitable for businesses looking to make an impact in Tyger Valley.
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Tyger Valley Overview
Office space to let in Tyger Valley, Cape Town, ranges from compact suites of under 100 m² for smaller professional teams to corporate floor plates above 1,000 m² suitable for head office consolidation. Browse the current listings below to compare available sizes, monthly rentals, parking allocations, building specifications and occupation dates.
Tyger Valley is the corporate heart of Cape Town's Northern Suburbs, offering businesses direct N1 access, a deep concentration of A-grade office stock, generous parking ratios and one of the strongest retail and amenity clusters in the Western Cape. The node accommodates financial services firms, insurance and investment businesses, medical and allied health practices, engineering consultancies, technology companies, recruitment and training providers, and established corporate occupiers.
View the latest office space available in Tyger Valley, or contact Brightwave for a building-specific shortlist based on your size, budget, parking and occupation requirements.
Tyger Valley: Cape Town's Northern Suburbs Office Hub
Tyger Valley sits between Bellville and Durbanville in the northern metro, roughly 25 km from the Cape Town CBD, with direct access to the N1 via the Willie van Schoor and Jip de Jager interchanges. The R300 runs along the eastern edge of the node and links the N1 south toward Cape Town International Airport and the N2.
Most of the commercial activity concentrates along four arterials: Carl Cronje Drive, Durban Road, Willie van Schoor Avenue and Bill Bezuidenhout Avenue. The Tyger Falls and Tyger Waterfront precincts, developed around a former quarry and its canal system, hold much of the newer premium stock, while established office parks spread through the surrounding blocks.
For office searches, Brightwave uses Tyger Valley for this wider commercial node rather than splitting it into small residential or postal subareas. A building's street address may use Bellville, Rosenpark, Bo Oakdale or Kenridge; that factual address remains unchanged while the stock stays within one Tyger Valley office search market.
This position makes Tyger Valley practical for businesses drawing staff from across the northern and eastern metro. Employees living in Bellville, Durbanville, Brackenfell, Kraaifontein, Parow, Welgemoed and the Winelands can reach the node without commuting into the city centre, which is often the single biggest factor in staff retention when a business relocates.
Why Businesses Choose Office Space in Tyger Valley
Businesses searching for office space to rent in Tyger Valley, Cape Town, shortlist the node because it combines corporate-quality accommodation with the accessibility and parking that the CBD struggles to match.
The main benefits include:
- Direct N1 access via two interchanges
- Generous parking, typically well above CBD ratios
- A deep supply of A-grade and premium office stock
- Backup power and fibre as standard in the better buildings
- Tyger Valley Shopping Centre and Willowbridge within minutes
- Established banking, medical and professional services cluster
- An affluent residential catchment for both staff and clients
- Controlled access and 24-hour security at the larger parks
- A recognised corporate address in the Northern Suburbs
- Rental rates below equivalent CBD and Waterfront space
Tyger Valley is not the cheapest office node in the Northern Suburbs. Businesses generally choose it because they want a credible corporate address with reliable infrastructure, and because the practical realities of parking and commuting work in their favour.
Office Buildings and Grades in Tyger Valley
The offices to let in Tyger Valley span one of the deepest concentrations of quality stock outside the Cape Town CBD, weighted toward A-grade buildings with a supporting layer of well-managed B-grade space and a small premium tier at the top.
At the premium end, Avanti Towers is the node's AAA-grade landmark, with backup power, fibre infrastructure and 24-hour security. Springfield Office Park offers premium-grade space in smaller suite sizes for businesses that want the specification without the floor plate.
The A-grade core is where most tenants land. Buildings such as Tijger Park, The Cliffs, Tyger Valley Chambers, Fedgroup Place, Canal Edge Office Park, Parc Du Cap Office Park, Waterside Place and Tygervalley Office Park cover everything from sub-150 m² suites to full corporate floors.
For businesses weighing cost against specification, Omni Park and Bateleur Office Park offer B-grade space at a lower rate, often with larger contiguous areas than comparable A-grade budgets allow.
The most expensive building is not automatically the most suitable. A well-fitted B-grade suite with existing partitioning, cabling and kitchen can carry a lower total occupation cost than a premium white-box space that needs a full installation before anyone moves in.
What Does Office Space in Tyger Valley Cost?
Gross asking rentals for office space to let in Tyger Valley currently run from roughly R130 to R290 per m², with most A-grade space clustering near R180 per m². B-grade and older stock generally sits in the lower part of that range, while newer premium buildings reach the upper end.
Gross rates usually include the operating costs, rates and levies, but the definition varies between landlords. Before comparing two buildings on rate alone, confirm what each figure covers.
The items that most often change the real monthly number are:
- Parking bays, charged separately per bay in most buildings
- Whether the quoted rate is gross or net of operating costs
- Annual escalation, commonly between 6% and 8%
- Deposit requirements, usually one to three months
- Tenant installation allowance offered against fit-out costs
- Generator, backup water and refuse recoveries where applicable
A smaller suite at a higher rate can work out cheaper in total than a larger one at a lower rate once parking and operating costs are included. When we compare office space to rent in Tyger Valley for a client, we build a full monthly cost comparison across the shortlist before anyone commits to viewings.
For current market context on vacancy, rental trends and notable transactions in the node, see our Tyger Valley commercial property market insights.
Parking at Tyger Valley Offices
Parking is one of the clearest advantages Tyger Valley holds over the Cape Town CBD. Most office parks in the node offer basement and on-grade bays at ratios that comfortably exceed what is available in the city centre, and in many buildings there is enough parking for a full team rather than a rationed allocation.
Bays are almost always charged separately from the rental. Basement, covered and open bays carry different rates, and some buildings limit how many bays a tenant can take regardless of floor area.
Before signing, confirm the total number of bays available to your suite, the split between basement, covered and open, the monthly rate for each, and whether visitor parking is provided. A business with staff who all drive can find that parking, not floor space, is the binding constraint on which buildings actually work.
Public Transport and Accessibility
Tyger Valley is served primarily by road. Golden Arrow bus services and authorised minibus taxi routes run along the main arterials and connect the surrounding Northern Suburbs, and the Bellville rail and bus interchange, one of the busiest public transport nodes in the metro, is a short drive away.
Public transport suitability should be assessed at building level rather than for the node as a whole, because the final walking distance from a bus stop or from Bellville station varies considerably across Tyger Valley.
For businesses with larger teams, understanding where staff live and how they travel is worth doing before the shortlist is finalised. A building can offer the right floor plate and still create a daily problem if it does not suit how the team actually gets to work.
Backup Power, Fibre and Business Continuity
Fibre connectivity is effectively standard across quality office buildings in Tyger Valley, and backup power has become a baseline expectation rather than a premium feature following the load-shedding cycles of recent years.
Among current stock, buildings including Avanti Towers, Tijger Park, Tyger Valley Chambers, Fedgroup Place, Parc Du Cap Office Park, Waterside Place, Tygervalley Office Park and Omni Park carry generator backup. Coverage differs in an important way between buildings: some generators carry the full tenant load, others only common areas, lifts and access control.
Backup water is far less common than backup power in the node. If uninterrupted water supply matters to your operation, it needs to be asked about specifically rather than assumed.
Confirm three things per building before signing: what the generator actually powers, how long it can run without refuelling, and who carries the fuel cost. These are the details that separate a building that keeps working during an outage from one that merely keeps the lights on in the lobby.
Retail, Amenities and the Tyger Valley Lifestyle
Few Cape Town office nodes match Tyger Valley for amenity on the doorstep. Tyger Valley Shopping Centre, one of the largest malls in the Western Cape with more than 230 stores across four levels, anchors the retail offering with a full banking mall, cinemas, restaurants, and medical and dental services.
Willowbridge Lifestyle Centre on Carl Cronje Drive adds an open-air mix of dining, homeware and the Barnyard Theatre, while the Tyger Waterfront precinct puts canal-side restaurants and cafés within walking distance of several office buildings.
Healthcare is well covered, with Intercare's sub-acute facility and clinics in the node and Tygerberg Hospital a short drive away. Virgin Active and a spread of quick-lunch and sit-down venues handle the everyday needs that keep staff on site through the working day.
This matters more than it sounds. Amenity within walking distance of the office reduces the number of reasons staff need to leave the precinct during the day, and it gives you somewhere credible to take a client without booking half a morning for the trip.
Comparing Tyger Valley with Nearby Office Nodes
Tyger Valley is usually shortlisted alongside two or three neighbouring nodes, and the right answer depends on what a business is optimising for.
- Bellville Central offers lower rentals and the strongest public transport access in the Northern Suburbs, with older stock on average.
- Durbanville suits smaller professional practices wanting a quieter setting closer to the northern residential belt.
- Plattekloof is the quieter premium alternative, popular with medical and financial advisory firms, with generous parking and easy N1 access.
- Century City is the closest comparable managed precinct, roughly 15 km west along the N1, with a broader mix of building grades.
Businesses that need corporate presence, deep A-grade choice and full amenity generally settle on Tyger Valley. Those optimising purely on rate often find better value in Bellville Central, and those wanting a quieter address tend toward Plattekloof or Durbanville.
Local Tyger Valley Office Leasing Experience
We place tenants in Tyger Valley, Cape Town, regularly, and the feedback is consistent. The node works on a practical, day-to-day level: the N1 on-ramp is rarely more than a few minutes from any office address, parking is plentiful, and the surrounding retail handles the lunch runs and errands that make a difference to staff satisfaction.
For tenants relocating from CBD or Foreshore addresses, the observation is usually the same. Staff retention improves once the daily commute and the parking battle fall away, and clients from across the Northern Suburbs and Winelands find the node considerably easier to reach than the city centre.
The trade-off is that Tyger Valley is a car-oriented node. Businesses with a significant share of staff dependent on public transport should look carefully at building-level access, or weigh Bellville Central as an alternative.
If you are comparing options, we can put together a shortlist that accounts for size, budget, parking ratio, backup power coverage and realistic occupation dates, and arrange viewings across several buildings in one trip.
Browse all office space to let in Tyger Valley or contact Brightwave to discuss your requirements directly.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How much does this unit at 78 On Edward, Tyger Valley cost to rent?
- The rental rate for this unit is R306 per m² per month, excluding VAT.
- How big is this unit?
- This unit measures 72 m².
- What deposit is required?
- A deposit equivalent to 2 months' rental is required.
- What is the lease term?
- The required lease term for this property is 36 months.
- Is this unit currently available?
- Yes, the unit is currently listed as To Let.
- What building amenities does it have?
- The building features 24-hour security, backup power, and fibre connectivity.
- What grade is the building?
- 78 On Edward is an A-Grade building.
Location
78 Edward Road, Bo Oakdale, Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Town
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