BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange to release 600 housing stands

The Hwange Local Board has completed the surveying and pegging of 600 residential, commercial and institutional stands as part of efforts to reduce the town's housing backlog and address the shortage...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 October 2025

POLITICS

Councillors outraged by directive to allocate stands to MPs

Harare City councillors have expressed outrage over a ministerial directive requiring the allocation of 30 low-density residential stands to Members of Parliament, arguing the move prioritises person...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 October 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo commissions 465 serviced residential stands

The Bulawayo City Council, working with Natwecraft (Pvt) Ltd and Cabin Lock Construction, has commissioned 465 serviced residential stands in Luveve North and Emganwini, in a major boost to the city'...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 October 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Illegal sale of stands in Umganin Phase IV

The City of Bulawayo has issued a stern warning to home seekers over the illegal sale of residential stands in Umganin Phase IV, cautioning that unscrupulous developers could leave buyers out of pock...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 September 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Binga Council to repossess over 100 stands

The Binga Local Board has announced plans to repossess more than 100 undeveloped residential and commercial stands from owners who have failed to develop them over the past six years.In a notice, Bin...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 September 2025

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Bulawayo commissions 650 serviced stands

BULAWAYO City Council (BCC), in partnership with Enock Construction and Earth Moving Equipment, will on Friday commission 650 fully serviced stands in Mahatshula East suburb, marking the final phase o...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2025

POLITICS

Harare to stop issuing new housing stands

Thousands of prospective homebuilders in Harare have been dealt a major blow after the city unveiled a bold new urban policy that will halt all new housing stand allocations for the next 20 years. In ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 July 2025

POLITICS

War vets to get 50 000 serviced stands

The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works has unveiled a landmark housing initiative for Zimbabwe's war veterans, pledging 50,000 fully serviced residential stands through a strategic partners...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Redcliff begins stands repossession

The Municipality of Redcliff has begun issuing letters to residents who have defaulted on payments for their allocated stands, signaling the start of a major repossession initiative aimed at recoverin...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Chiwenga, Mohadi tour ZITF stands

Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi yesterday visited the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), commending both local and international exhibitors for their innovation and contri...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Thousands to lose stands in Bulawayo

THE Bulawayo City Council has given more than 2 000 property owners who have abandoned their assets or neglected to pay rates and develop their stands a final 30-day notice before the local authority ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 October 2019

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Reduced stands sales weigh down ZPI

ZIMRE Property Investments (ZPI) says it recorded a loss of $1,42 million during the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to a profit of $2,49 million in 2017 due to portfolio restructuring and redu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 May 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo council approves sale of stands in forex

Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has approved the sale of housing stands in foreign currency, a move that is set to make them priced out of reach of many citizens, who have endured falling standards of lif...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 December 2018

POLITICS

Mutsvangwa stands down

The vice president of the SADC Parliamentary Forum, Senator Monica Mutsvangwa, left the leadership of the Forum last week after an eventful two years at the helm of the inter-parliamentary body that b...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 December 2018

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

ZB avails 708 Plumtree housing stands

ZB BANK has availed 708 housing stands in Plumtree Town, which have since been opened up for sale to prospective home seekers in a partnership with the local authority. Speaking in Bulawayo during a b...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 September 2018

POLITICS

Shamu stands with Mnangagwa

Former Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs minister Webster Shamu yesterday disowned a video clip circulating on social media platforms, where he was captured as suggesting to his supporters that they...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 July 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance candidate in stands scandal

MDC Alliance's council candidate for ward 3 in Gwanda has been named in a scandal involving the illegal sale of repossessed housing stands in the Matabeleland South capital.The alleged scam was uneart...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Teachers sue property developer after stands deal sours

TWENTY-FOUR teachers under the Zimbabwe Teachers' Union (Zitu), have taken a Gweru-based leading property developer, River Valley Properties, to court for failing to deliver residential stands which t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa says MDC-T stands for MDC-Tsotsi

MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has now publicly disowned the MDC-T name saying his party would not be using the name ever again.Addressing thousands of party supporters at Mutasa DC yesterday, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Gweru ordered to stop selling stands

GWERU's acting town clerk, Douglas Chikwekwe, has revealed that the local authority had received an order from Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Owen Ncube to stop parcelling out land in peri-urban...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Misihairabwi stands by Khupe

FIREBRAND Proportional Representation legislator for Matabeleland South, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, yesterday filed nomination papers on behalf of former MDC-T vice president, Dr Thokozani Khupe...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

CBZ housing scheme beneficiaries to lose residential stands

THE estimated 1 300 beneficiaries of the CBZ housing scheme in Victoria Falls might lose their residential stands after the local authority recently threatened to repossess the stands over non-payment...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF promise farms and stands for women, youths

ZANU-PF has promised to empower youths, women, the disabled and the vulnerable through allocation of farms and residential stands as part of its efforts to ensure indigenous people participate in econ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Servicing of Mkoba 21 stands begins

Gweru City Council has begun servicing Mkoba 21 stands and beneficiaries will soon start building their houses, a senior council official has said.The 6 733 stands were unveiled to potential buyers th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

City council to repossess stands

Harare City Council (HCC) is set to repossess residential stands issued to cooperatives and housing assistance pay schemes, which are failing to pay for the allocated  land.The stands were alloca...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 March 2018
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