The omakorokoza would walk into posh real estate offices in Harare, with cash in duffel bags, and snap up properties without blinking at million-dollar - US - price tags.In 2013, Pam Golding Zimbabwe, one of the biggest estate agencies in the country, reportedly had a property listed in the upmarket Harare suburb of Borrowdale for $6.2-million.At such high valuations, properties in upmarket Harare could comfortably compete with their high-end equivalents in the Cape Town suburbs of Clifton, Camps Bay, Bantry Bay and Fresnaye.The boom was largely driven by new money from the diamond wealth, diaspora buyers and positive foreign investor sentiment after Zimbabwe ditched the local currency in favour of the US dollar.Just three years later, though, those good times feel like a distant memory.Property experts cite the military's tightening control over the diamond mines and President Robert Mugabe's victory in the 2013 election as two of the reasons the bull run in Zimbabwe's property sec...
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