{"id":242768,"date":"2026-08-31T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-unlock-zimbabwes-dead-capital-or-remain-trapped-in-poverty-sharpe\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:41:00","slug":"zimbabwe-unlock-zimbabwes-dead-capital-or-remain-trapped-in-poverty-sharpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-unlock-zimbabwes-dead-capital-or-remain-trapped-in-poverty-sharpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Unlock Zimbabwe&#8217;s &#8216;Dead Capital&#8217; or Remain Trapped in Poverty &#8211; Sharpe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">WestProp chief executive Kenneth Sharpe has called for urgent reforms to the country&#8217;s mortgage market arguing that unlocking billions of dollars tied up in residential property could provide a major boost to the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking at the sixth edition of the ZimReal Conference, Sharpe said Zimbabwe had vast property wealth but very limited mortgage financing, leaving homeowners &#8220;paper rich&#8221; while struggling to access cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He said mortgage lending accounted for less than 1% of Zimbabwe&#8217;s real&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608310682.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WestProp chief executive Kenneth Sharpe has called for urgent reforms to the country&#8217;s mortgage market arguing that unlocking billions of dollars tied up in residential property could provide a major boost to the economy. Speaking at the sixth edition of the ZimReal Conference, Sharpe said Zimbabwe had vast property wealth but very limited mortgage financing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6959,8096,257,7121,5153,39513,254,11323,19587,4686,421,7726],"class_list":["post-242768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capital","tag-dead","tag-news","tag-poverty","tag-remain","tag-sharpe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trapped","tag-unlock","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}