Bureaucracy stifling home ownership

BUREAUCRACY around the property ownership, acquisition and registration is stopping people from acquiring title deeds threatening owners’ security, a new report has shown.

The latest Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) 2023 report stated that the proportion of households which own dwellings without title deeds increased to 13% from 8% in 2020.

“There is a need for collaborations between ratepayers, councils and deeds office to address bottlenecks to accelerate the acquisition of title deeds by homeowners, as this has implications on credit worthiness and access to capital,” the report said.

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