REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES IN THE
CITY OF BEIRA, MOZAMBIQUE

REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES IN THE
CITY OF BEIRA, MOZAMBIQUE

TOWINDO TICHAONA

The purpose of this thesis was to make an analysis of the challenges facing the real
estate and properties management industry in the city of Beira, Mozambique. This
research features both Policy Formulation and Management areas of study. In light of
this research, there is one major question that had to be considered: “What are the
challenges being faced by property owners, property seekers, property management
regulators, and real estate agents during the course of their business activities in the
city of Beira?”
This qualitative research was based on the premise that valuable data were collected
through conducting face-to-face interviews among the thirty participants in this study.
The thirty participants were made up of eight informal real estate agents, eight property
owners, eight property seekers, three formal real estate agents, and three local
government officials (property regulators). Six participants were purposively sampled
from each of the five major residential areas in the city of Beira.
The interviewees were asked about the major challenges affecting the real estate and
properties management industry. All the collected data were organized for entry into the
Qualitative Data Analysis Computer program. This is an Excel Spread Sheets based
program, whose results are summarized in a Pivot Table.
The results following this research show that the City of Beira is being faced with real
challenges whereby the property industry is being managed haphazardly. The study
revealed that there is little government or official private sector control to oversee the
industry. The study recommends the urgent need for the local government and the
private sector to intervene in the property management activities through setting up an
active national or local real estate board, and or local real estate committee. This board
or committee should serve to come up with laws and specific guidelines for these real
estate and properties management activities

ZOU

2013