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The demand for luxury apartments has remained unchanged while the sales of regular properties and initiation of new housing projects are in the slow lane amid the ongoing economic crisis, according to market players.

Housing sector sees almost complete rebound Scope to invest untaxed money, low lending rates jack up sales The real estate and housing industry passed a relatively good year thanks to policy support for purchasing property with untaxed income as well as cheap bank loans. In the budget of the current fiscal year, the government allowed the use of untaxed income to purchase property, land and apartments in certain areas, without having to answer for the source. Besides, banks provide home loans a...

Construction set to be costlier as rod prices soar Steel prices jumped 17 per cent in the last one month as millers hiked the rates in the wake of spiralling scrap prices in the international market, which will make the implementation of public construction projects and home building costlier. The retail price of 60-grade MS (mild-steel) rod rose to Tk 64,000 per tonne, up from Tk 54,000 a month ago and Tk 61,500 during the corresponding period last year, data from state-run Trading Corporation...