Despite a constitutional equal right to access land, women's access to land in Zimbabwe is undermined by discriminatory practices under customary law. Zimbabwean law recognises women's rights to have access to property other than land. All women, whether single or married, are entitled to own property, which they retain if they do marry or subsequently divorce.

Legislation allows women in Zimbabwe to have access to bank loans. The Immovable Property Prevention and Discrimination Act prohibits financial institutions from perpetuating discrimination on the grounds of sex, among others grounds, by refusing to grant loans or other financial assistance for the acquisition, hire, construction, maintenance or repair of any immovable property, to people of a particular sex.