"Too Expensive": Zimbabwe's R40m Shawasha Hills Mansion Listed for Sale Sparks SA Price Debate
- Tatenda Chiki listed a 6-bedroom, 8-bathroom mansion in Shawasha Hills, Harare, for $2.7 million
- The property sits on 1.34 hectares with a swimming pool, solar panels, marble floors and a borehole
- South Africans and Zimbabweans flooded the comments comparing the price to what the same money buys in SA
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A luxury mansion in one of Harare's most sought-after suburbs has set social media alight. Its listing price left thousands of people questioning whether Zimbabwe's property market makes any sense at all.
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Tatenda Chiki, a verified real estate agent, posted the listing on 28 October for a double-storey home in Shawasha Hills, Harare North. The asking price: $2.7 million, negotiable. Converted to rands, that works out to roughly R46 million.
The property is hard to fault on paper. Spread across 1.34 hectares, the home offers 6 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms and 1,400 square metres of living space. Features include glossy grey marble floors, circular columns, sliding doors, a rectangular swimming pool on a timber deck, solar panels, a borehole and covered parking. It is, by any measure, an impressive build. But it was the price tag that sent people into a spin. See the listing that started the debate:
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Mzansi weighs in on mansion's price
The moment the listing circulated, South Africans and Zimbabweans began doing the maths, and most did not like what they found. Here is how people reacted:
Kuhle Kortes Maotwana Magadlela said:
"R33 341,800. In SA you can get this house for between R6-8 million, AND you can never have to worry about ZanuPF bulldozing it to the ground"
Esrail Tinotenda August wrote:
"I could've taken it, but it's giving Chivayo."
Ta Te joked:
"I could do a wire transfer from one of my offshore accounts but problem hapana tennis court [there's no tennis court]"
Kev Sage added:
"Zimbabwe is too expensive. Do you know what you can buy in SA with that money?????"
Muzi Zulu Mageba warned:
"And imagine one day you woke up to be told this house is being demolished (Harare style) unofa ne BP on the spot [you'd die of high blood pressure on the spot]"
Fleture Kim Gombedza observed:
"Wicknell made us think a million is nothing"
Nick Manaka put it bluntly:
"R33 million rands for a house in Harare bruh? In SA I could buy 3 houses like this for 10 mill and still have 3 million to fully furnish all of them. The dollar confused y'all."
Mambo Nashe II concluded:
"For that amount, I'd buy 2 equally impressive properties in South Africa."
Other Briefly News stories on ultra-luxury estates
- Real estate content creator @king.listing set social media abuzz after breaking down the legendary "Casablanca Mansion" in Camps Bay, Cape Town, which made history as the country's most expensive residential sale at roughly R700 million.
- Property content creator @vuvusesi (NomiandCo) captivated viewers with a virtual tour of a R65 million luxury estate listed on Pam Golding in Franschhoek, Western Cape.
- TikTokker @olebogeng_m3 went viral after tracking down and filming the massive, mysterious mansion in Mbombela (Nelspruit), Mpumalanga, that has intrigued social media users for years.
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