The Super-Generous Developers of Bangladesh

by Prof. Bijon B. Sarma

Introduction

Those who have experiences of purchasing apartments in Dhaka might have seen that even though the advertisement for a flat was for say ‘x’ sft., the time when the developer hands over the flat one gets an area much less than x. Well, they consider some of the areas for common use (like staircase, water tank, common lobby etc.) to have been added to it. While this is the common scene, strangely one group of developers (provider of apartments in multi-storied buildings) of Dhaka city gives more spaces than what is written in the documents. Strange, is not it? At times they give double of the space written in the document. Those who have already encountered such a phenomenon may go through this article to know the “inner details”. When we may guess it as “noble intention” of the developers, the intelligent persons should wait before passing comment, before they know the million dollar secret.

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