Tinashe Makichi Property Reporter
Land developer, Shelter Zimbabwe, has started selling residential stands at its Chizhanje housing project in Mabvuku, which is expected to gross close to $20 million from stands to be sold. The project, which has 1 800 units, is a joint venture between Shelter Zimbabwe and the Harare City Council. Shelter Zimbabwe general manager Francis Mugandani, said the residential stands are now on sale at a price of around $10 500.

“The stands are now up for sale and at the moment we have done construction of roads, which are now 30-40 percent in terms of progress. We are currently doing the gravels in preparation of road compaction,” said Mr Mugandani.

He said water and sewer designs are not yet approved by the Harare City Council. Materials have been purchased and awaiting the approval of the designs.

“We are waiting for approvals on water and sewer designs, but we have pre-purchased the materials required,” he said.

Mr Mugandani said the project will be delivered in 2018.

Shelter Zimbabwe has been appealing to Government for more land to develop in various cities and towns in order to assist in expediting implementation of Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation.

The local property developer also struck a partnership with the Epworth Local Board in developing a concept for Adelaide Farm.

Through the approval by the Department of Physical Panning, some 1 500 low density stands and 3 500 medium to high density stands are set for delivery.

Shelter Zimbabwe is a key player in the development of residential stands, providing state of the art housing infrastructure solutions, as it relishes the experience of having developed over 3,000 residential stands in Greater Harare.

Efforts by Shelter Zimbabwe comes as Government has committed to providing 60 000 housing units by 2018.

Zimbabwe’s housing demand is estimated at 1, 25 million units, which is well above what is available on the market.

Government through ZimAsset acknowledges that affordable home ownership is an essential characteristic of the concept of Zimbabwean citizenship.

There is increasing population density particularly in urban centres, therefore high rise developments including flats, that make maximum usage of the finite resource called land will be encouraged.

Harare City Council is in the process of providing decent accommodation and reduce the housing backlog pegged at 500 000 home seekers.

In trying to support housing development, Government is encouraging private land developers and community based programmes such as housing trusts and housing cooperatives to partner local authorities in housing development.

So far housing cooperatives have managed to construct close to 95 000 housing units between 2010 to 2015, an initiative that has worked to reduce the country’s housing backlog currently at about 1,25 million.

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