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DHAKA, Mar19, 2023 (BSS)-The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Public Works Ministry in its 27th meeting today emphasized to

The realtors want cut in apartment registration fees and tax cut on registration of used flats

Real estate businesses have urged the government to reduce registration fees on apartment sales and cut taxes on registration of second hand or used flats to give a boost to the sector.

When a building needs to be demolished, some basic safety measures are a must. If they are in place, tragedies like Wednesday’s incident, in which a building’s wall crushed two people to death, are unlikely to take place.

Locals and eyewitnesses said during the demolition of a two-storeyed building, a part of the wall, around 20-foot long and 12-foot-high, collapsed onto the pavement below around 4:00pm, as the demolition work was being carried out without a safety net.

REHAB Chattogram Fair 2023, a four-day housing exhibition, will begin in the port city today at the Radisson Blu Chattogram Bay View hotel.

Forty eight companies from Dhaka and Chattogram, including realtors, building material makers and financial institutes, will take part

The building was recently visited by this correspondent, who found it to be in a fragile condition and left to rot and decay. The walls were faded, cracked, with chunks of plaster falling off.

Constructing buildings without following the Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) and not running maintenance according to the code make the structures most vulnerable to heavy earthquakes.