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Galloping prices in the capital have turned the spotlight on wealthy foreign buyers, but the estate agent insisted they were not driving house price inflation.
Eight in ten people have no formal jobs; inflation, officially estimated at more than 3,700%, may actually be twice as high.So President Robert Mugabe has decided to try to do something about the galloping prices of basic goods.
But it is outrun by galloping prices: at last count, the most valuable banknote available was for 50 billion Zimbabwean dollars, now worth barely 70 American cents on the black market, and the stock of Zimbabwean dollars is dwindling.
Demand for housing has been strong for more than a decade, smoothing out the historical pattern of galloping prices in good times and falling prices in recessions, she wrote.
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Then, renting offered the young, especially, a haven from galloping house-price inflation.
The idea that cuts can wait for the "recovery" suggests that an economic model involving profligate consumer spending, underpinned by galloping house-price inflation, was desirable to the left in the first place.
A decade of galloping house-price inflation has been keenly felt in the country, as rich refugees from the cities seek a slice of rural bliss and price out lower-paid young locals in the process (one reason why country-dwellers are, on average, five years older than city-dwellers).Defenders of the government disagree with such interpretations.
And not just because you'll be left for dust by galloping London house prices.
When prices gallop away week by week, fires somehow do not often get started.
It was not so long ago that major Manhattan developers and their lenders worried little about these things, figuring that rents and sale prices would gallop well ahead of the surging cost of land, concrete and steel.
Galloping inflation is yet another cost, and price increases are absorbed largely by people without the means to try slipping packages of dollars past the dogs at the ferry terminal.
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