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# TITLE: Stuctural, Spatial and Other Attibutes of House Price: The Case of Bangladesh
# YEAR: 2012.0  VENUE: Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners  DOI: 10.3329/jbip.v5i1.76959
# AUTHORS: T. Bashar
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# ABSTRACT: This paper examines the significance of structural and spatial characterstics of house contributing to the property value. Longitudinal data on property value over the last ten years and cross sectional data on house rent have been analysed using Hedonic Regressions Function to derive a house price index for the current housing market in Bangladesh. The trend of house price is increasing more rapidly with the demand driven housing market in Bangladesh. Real estate attracts a great deal of speculative investment, but there is no indication of the relative importance of various factors in this process. This paper hopes to make an initial dent into this problem.
Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners, Vol. 5, Dec 2012, pp. 13-24


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Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners 
ISSN 2075-9363 
Vol. 5, December 2012, pp. 13-24,  Bangladesh Institute of Planners 
Stuctural, Spatial and Other Attibutes of House Price: 
The Case of Bangladesh 
Toriqul Bashar* 
Abstract 
This paper examines the significance of structural and spatial characterstics of house contributing 
to the property value. Longitudinal data on property value over the last ten years and cross-
sectional data on house rent have been analysed using Hedonic Regressions Function to derive a 
house price index for  the current housing market in Bangladesh. The trend of house price is 
increasing more rapidly with the demand driven housing market in Bangladesh. Real estate attracts 
a great deal of speculative investment, but there is no indication of the relative importance of 
various factors in this process. This paper hopes to make an initial dent into this problem. 
Introduction 
Housing market of Bangladesh is booming over the last few decades to feed the growing demand 
by bourgeoisies, particularly, in the urban areas. Though the market is primarily dominated by the 
private realtors, the government housing authorities also keep impetus in this process. The 
increasing migration toward urban areas for availing better livelihood facilities coupled with the 
scarcity of urban land have made the housing demand skyrocketing. As such, houses are now 
being split into flats to accomodate the influx of city dwellers who having less purchasing power. 
Still the supply is far behind the level to meet the current demand which is causing less control 
over the exponential increase of market price. However, various physical and non-physical 
attributes determine the house price and make difference between in-house prices across the city. 
All changes across the area are not completely explicit, as such,  to estimate the values of that 
changes always be complex since a number of factors and their multiple effects contribute to these 
changes. Many approaches and methods have been employed by far to measure the costs for 
marginal changes. Thus, in-house and outdoor factors need to be looked into carefully. A good 
house price index allows buyers and sellers to estimate the current value of houses. 
A number of seminal works on House Price Dynamics have been written by a number of authors. 
Among them (Cho, 1996; Owen & Jeremy, 1999; Poterba, Weil, & Shiller, 1991; Taylor, 1992) 
are few noticeable, more specifically, Topel & Rosen (1998) on “Housing Investment”,  Case & 
Shiller (1990) on “Forecasting Prices and Excess Returns in the Housing Market”, Goodman & 
Ittner (1992) on “The Accuracy of Home Owners' Estimates of House Value”, etc. But all are 
based on data dealt with the housing market of developed countries. But, the housing market 
dynamics in the context of Bangladesh have never been reported or analysed anywhere. This paper 
has analysed the house price using Hedonic Price Function (HPF) based on data extracted from 
Dhaka and Brahmanbaria city, and hopes to provide an initial understanding of the housing market 
in Bangladesh. In the following section, the data sources along with variables used while 
collecting data have been discussed. The section also includes details of methodology that have 
been followed in the article. The section is followed by the theoretical aspect of Hedonic Price 
Function. It describes pros and cons of methodical approaches used while estimating house price 
and sets an equation to reach at the results.  The next section is the empirical results, based on data 
collected from various sources for this articles. Finally, conclusion has been drawn out. 
                                                 
* Department of Economics,  Monash University (Caulfield Campus), Melbourne, Australia 
Email: basher.bashar@monash.edu; shohag1296@yahoo.com