About Us

Mission:

  • To offer the best hand-picked homes, carefully selected to meet your specific needs and ideals as closely as possible.
  • To take care of the finest detail and to serve you as far as possible.
  • Home Owners: To offer a complete service; performed with efficiency, transparency, honesty, integrity, and reliability as you entrust your property to us.
  • Holiday Guests: to be the host you need to ensure you do nothing more than rest and fill your holiday with family, friends, and good memories.
  • Staff and Associates: To create a working environment that is happy and productive, working as a team, making space to learn and grow.

Vision:

To continue to develop our brand as Specialist Villa Agents, growing our niche market and constantly honing our skills, both in the field of property and hospitality.

History:

It all began with a love story; Col John Leonard Jones OBE met Elizabeth (Bunty) Walton in Cape Town in the 1950s, after marriage, and with 2 small children in tow, they move to Hermanus in 1966 and started Vesta Estate Agency (Pty) LTD; by the 1990’s “ Vesta” had become part of the Homenet Group and in 1997 Sue Jones Minnaar joined Bunty, by then a widow, to continue the venture.

In 2000 we divided the business and sold the Homenet shares, this allowed us to rebrand under the new name “ The Champagne Collection Holiday Villas Apartments & Guest Houses CC” We've put a couple of decades behind us since then and added years of experience.

By 2019 we were excited to welcome in the third generation of the Jones family as Shannon Jones joined to claim her place in our family business; The Champagne Collection.

We've been around to watch Hermanus grow from a small fishing village with about 3000 residents in 1966 to a bustling and trendy town, now placing itself firmly on the map as a beautiful and very desirable destination.

Our Team:

  • Sue Jones Minnaar – Owner and Principal Agent, daughter of founding members – Master Property Practitioner (National Certificate of Real Estate NQ5 20188)
  • Shannon Jones – Property Manager, Business Administrator, granddaughter of the founding members
  • Rejeane Ritter – Client Administrator and all-time trusted and loyal team member, who after 10 years is more family than friend.

Agency Memberships and Credentials:

  • Accredited by the PPRA (Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority)
  • Members of the Institute of Estate Agents
  • Members of the TPN Credit Bureau
  • Property 24
  • Rebosa
  • Efica
  • Hermanus Tourism
  • Cape Town Tourism

Sue Minnaar Credentials & Courses:

  • Master Practitioner in Real Estate (MPRE)
  • Homenet Property Consultant – with Honours
  • Homenet Property Negotiator
  • Write it Right Seminar
  • Institute of Estate Agency Rentals Course