Buying Property in Zimbabwe: 10 Mistakes That Delay Transfers Or, How a “Quick Deal” Sometimes Turns Into a Three-Season Documentary There are few things capable of producing emotional highs and lows in Zimbabwe quite like buying property. One moment you are standing on an empty stand confidently declaring: “This is where the double-storey mansion will […]
The Role of a Conveyancer: More Than Just Paperwork There is a popular belief in Zimbabwe that a conveyancer is simply a person who “stamps papers,” disappears into an office for three weeks, resurfaces with a title deed, and sends an invoice powerful enough to trigger immediate prayer and fasting. Respectfully… that is not entirely […]
Diaspora Property Purchases in Zimbabwe: A Legal Guide Or, How to Buy Property Back Home Without Developing High Blood Pressure For many Zimbabweans in the diaspora, buying property back home begins as a beautiful dream. It starts innocently enough. You are sitting in Birmingham, Johannesburg, Perth, Toronto, Dallas, or somewhere in the United Kingdom where […]
“Your title deed may soon need an update… and no, this is not a scam message from your cousin who suddenly became a property consultant overnight.” 😄 Zimbabwe’s property sector is entering a completely new phase. Over the past few months, there has been growing discussion around SI 76 of 2025 and the move toward […]
The aggregate of assets and liabilities of the deceased is termed the deceased estate. The deceased estate is not a juristic person. Consequently, the only legal person in connection with the estate is the executor in his representative capacity. The estate ‘vests’ originally in the Master of the High Court, and subsequently in one or […]
Sub-divided land is that which has been divided into smaller residential units and it is normally done on land bigger that 5000 square meters in Zimbabwe. The process of subdividing land is done in terms of Part VI of the Regional, Town and Country Planning Act [Chapter 29:12] and subdivision can only occur after a […]
INTRODUCTION This write up seeks to compare and contrast; expropriation and deprivation terms as they applied in Zimbabwe`s property law regime. Zimbabwe`s constitutional law has largely observed and maintained a distinction in definition, scope and meaning between the terms expropriation and deprivation. A number of cases have been decided clearly expressing the meaning and scope […]