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CTG Fair 2012 Survey Result PDF
CTG Fair 2012 Survey Result PDF
Delivering Survey Report
Key findings in the
REHAB Chittagong Fair 2012
Duration of Survey: 10/02/2012 (start time: 15PM) to 11/02/2012 (20PM)
Report: 1
Survey 1
Respondents:
Visitors of the ‘REHAB Chittagong Fair 2012’.
Objective of the survey:
To ascertain the ‘Potential Customers’ nature, affordability
to buy a property and location preference and many more.
Topics A: Customer satisfaction on REHAB Chittagong Fair 2012
Question Asked: “How would you rate the overall arrangement of REHAB Chittagong Fair 2012?”
Objectives of the Question: The purpose of this question was to investigate the satisfaction level of
individual customer about overall Fair arrangement.
Distribution of respondents as per level of satisfactions:
High level of satisfactions 67%
Moderate level of satisfactions 32%
Low level of satisfactions 1%
Table 1: Customer satisfaction level
Chart 1: Customer satisfaction level
Comments: From the above survey it was evident that majority of the visitors were quite satisfied with the
overall arrangement of the Chittagong Fair. Most of the visitors opined that participation of more developers
firms could increase wider knowledge about more products and services and make the fair more attractive.
Topics B: Types of visitors as per purpose of visit.
Question asked: “Why would you like to visit the Chittagong REHAB Fair 2012?”
Objectives of the Question: To justify the purpose of visiting REHAB fair.
1 Window shopping
2 Get an idea about various developers
3 Get an idea about various products
4 Planning to buy Flat
5 Planning to buy Plot
6 Get an idea about various developers for future buy Flat
7 Get an idea about various developers for future buy Plot
Table 2: Purpose of visiting
Distribution of respondents as per purpose of visit:
Chart 2: Purpose of visiting
* Note: Follow the above table for Pie chart Number and color definition
Comments: It was evident from the above survey that 63% of the visitors were potential buyers of Flats / Plots
(majority intended to buy Flats, which is 58%). A sizeable number of the visitors (21%) wanted to get an idea
about the products and services for future purchase.
Topics C: Demand of Flat / Plot size and preferred location to buy a property.
Question asked: “What size of Flat / Plot would you like to buy?”
Objectives of the Question: Investigate what flats or plots sizes were more demanded in market.
Flat size
Flat size 850 to 1200 1500 to 1700 2000+
sft sft sft
Demand of percentage 35% 63% 2%
Table 3: Demand of Flat
Chart 3: Graphical presentation of Demand of Flat
Plot size
Plot size 3 Katha 5 Katha 5+ Katha
Table 4: Demand of Plot size
Chart 4: Graphical presentation of Demand of Plot size
Comments:
Flat:
From this survey it was quite apparent that majority of the potential buyers (63%) are interested to buy mid‐
size Flats i.e. 1500sft to 1700sft, while 35% were interested to buy comparatively smaller size flats which was
between 850sft to 1200sft. However there was a slight miss‐match with the expectation and real capabilities
for buying a property as evident from the next survey question.
Plot:
Few visitors responded that they were very much interested to buy Plot between 3 to 5 katha. Similarly, 17%
visitors were interested to buy either Flat or Plot or both.
Topics D: Demand and choice of various locations to buy a property.
Question asked: “What location or area would you prefer to buy a Flat or Plot?”
Objectives of the Question: Identify the most preferred location to buy a property.
Location Chittagong Cox bazaar Dhaka
Sl. no. percentage percentage percentage
1 City Centre area 54% 86% 80%
2 Close to city center 35% 7% 20%
3 Extension City area 9% 7% ‐
4 Satellite city area 1% 0% ‐
Table 5: Demand and choice of various locations to buy a property
Comments: It was quite apparent that majority of the potential buyers still aspire to own a property within
the City center. This clearly reflect that although the buying power vis‐à‐vis owning a property in the City center
had decreased significantly due to low supply of land and high construction cost, but the general mindset has
not been yet change. People are still reluctant to move away from the city center.
Topics D: Decision time take to buy a property.
Question asked: “When would you finally decide to buy a property?”
Objective of the Question: For this survey the respondents were asked about the likely their time line when
they would eventually be able to take a firm decision to buy a property.
Time line to make decision to buy a property Percentage
Immediate 25%
3 months time 18%
6 months time 24%
A Year time 33%
Others (5years or more ) 1%
Table 6: Time line to buy a property
Comments: It has been found that only 25% of the respondents were in a position to make immediate
decision while rest would take some time between 3 to 11 months to make firm decision. This is quite
significant that the point of view of determining the time needed to eventually close a deal from the first of
contact firm.
Topic E: Source of Fund to invest in property.
Question asked: “What is your source of fund?”
Objectives of the question: In this survey the respondents were asked about their likely sources of fund to
buy a property.
Financing Instrument Percentage of Funding
Personal Savings 31%
Family Savings 23%
Foreign Remittance 23%
Mortgage Finance 23%
Others (Business) 1%
Table 7: Source of Fund to invest in property
Chart 5: Graphical presentation of Source of Fund to invest in property
Comments:
‐ Approximate 54% of the total respondents will use their personal / family savings to purchase their
property. Interestingly majority of them also intend to own a property in the City center. It seems that
these groups of people are financially robust.
‐ About a quarter (23%) of the respondents revealed that foreign remittance would be their financial
source to buy their dream home. They intended rather to buy a flat / plot of slightly bigger size which
is either 1500 sft to 1700 sft and 5 Katha or above. Apparently they have considerable fund available.
‐ About quarter (23%) of the participant intended to buy a property through sourcing mortgage
financing. Their intended size of the property is also quite modest, which is either 850sft to 1200sft of
flat size or 3 katha of land. They are also not very choosy about location. This segment of the
population clearly does not have outright capacity of purchasing a property. This signifies that these
groups of people have quite low capabilities to finance themselves to buy a property. In this
circumstance, Bangladesh Bank loan scheme with low interest rate (9%) would be the alternative
financing methodology that would be appropriate to solve their.
Topic F: Capabilities to invest on buying a flat or plot
Question asked: How much would you like to invest to purchase a Flat or Plot?
Objectives of the question: In this survey the respondents were asked to mention their purchase
capabilities.
Investment Amount
BDT Percentage
4,000,000 33%
5,000,000 49%
7,000,000 10%
10,000,000 4%
Other 5%
Table 8: Purchase capabilities of potential buyer
Chart 6: Graphical presentation of Purchase capabilities of potential buyer
Comments: Majority of the buyers’ (82%) real purchase power is not more than BDT 5 millions in terms of
buying a property. This information is quite important in terms of planning future projects in term of location
and size.
Survey
2
Respondents:
Developer companies those were participated in the ‘REHAB Chittagong Fair 2012’.
Topics A: Present market condition of the Real Estate Business Bangladesh.
Question Asked: “How would you rate the current business condition of Real Estate Sector in Bangladesh?”
Objectives of the Question: The purpose of this question was to investigate the current market situation of
Real Estate sector in Bangladesh.
Distribution of respondents as per level of understanding of Business situation:
Present Market sentiment
Percentage of various trend
High trend 0%
Moderate trend 22%
Low trend 78%
Table 9: Developers responders – present market condition
Figure 7: Developers responders – present market condition
Comments: 78% Real Estate and land developers were quite pessimistic about the present market situation
and they thought that this basic sector of economy was experiencing a recession ‐ like situation. A small
percentage (22%) of respondents felt that market situation remained unchanged for the last couple of years.
This indicates that there is a widespread perception of a recession in the Real Estate sector in Bangladesh.
Topic B: Future trend of the Real Estate Business in Bangladesh.
Question Asked: “How would you rate the future trends of business in the Real Estate Sector in Bangladesh?”
Objectives of the Question: The purpose of this question was to investigate the future trend of Real Estate
sector in Bangladesh.
Distribution of respondents as per level of understanding:
Future Market sentiment
Percentage of various trend
High trend 15%
Moderate trend 37%
Low trend 48%
Table 10: Developers respond – future market condition
Figure 8: Developers respond – Future market condition
Comments: Approximate by 50% respondent replied with negative apprehension that future trend of the Real
Estate business would remain slow as in the present. About 37% respondents were fairly confident that
business would revive to a moderate level while 15% developers were expecting higher growth in future.
Topics C: Effect on signing new project due to recession.
Question Asked: “Compare the signing of new project in the year 2010 and 2011?”
Objectives of the Question: The purpose of this question was to investigate the possible negative impact on
singing new project due to recession.
Contract singing for New projects between 2010 to 2011 by Developers
2010 2011
No. Of projects
181 180
Table 11: Number of New Project sign
Figure 10: Number of project sign
Comment: It is quite interesting that number of singing projects remained same in 2011 as in 2010. It seems
that investors were not very much aware of the coming recession in 2011.
Topics D: Number of flats ready, sold and handed over in the year of 2010 and 2011.
Question Asked: “Please give comparison of sales and hand over between the year 2010 and 2011?”
Objectives of the Question: The purpose of this question was to investigate the negative / positive impact
on flat sales and handed over cause of recession.
Number of Flats available, sold and
handed over 2010 2011 Change Percentage
No. of flats 2010 to 2011
Number of Ready flats for sale 2968 3336 368 12%
Number of Flat sold 1005 844 ‐161 ‐16%
Number of Flat Handed over 393 382 ‐11 ‐3%
Table 12: Business development position of Real Estate in 2010 and 2011
Figure 11 : Business development position of Real Estate in 2010 and 2011
Comments: Based on respondents’ opinion, this was being observed that number of flat sales had dropped in
2011 compared to 2010 which was approximately 16% in the negative side. On the other hand, flats ready for
sales increased by 12% as developers signed these projects at least 3 years before. Number of flats handed
over almost remained unchanged in 2010 to 2011.
Topics E: Reason for apparent sleep in the Real Estate sector in 2011.
Question Asked: “What were reasons for slowing down of the sector in real estate business in 2011
compared to 2010?”
Objectives of the Question: The purpose of this question was to understand developers’ perception reasons
for recession in the real estate business last couple of years.
Reason for downgrading the Real Estate business:
Reasons Percentage of Respondents
Global recession 10%
Stock Market crash 15%
Withdrawal of section 19(B) 10%
Stoppage of BB Scheme of low interest loan 11%
High interest rate in real estate loan 10%
Inadequate loan financing by lenders 12%
Price increase in land and flat 9%
Unavailability of utility connections 15%
Inflation resulting depressed buying power 9%
Table: 13: Developers response ‐ reasons for decline business in the Real Estate sector
Figure 12: Developers response ‐ reason for downgrading the Real Estate business
Comments: Majority of respondents opined that stock market crash (15%) and unavailability of utility
connections (15%) were the main reasons for slowing down of the real estate business which was also evident
from the customers’ comments in another survey. Few other reasons were also hindering the overall business
growth i.e. inadequate loan financing by lenders with very high interest (12%), unavailability of loan financing
by Bangladesh Bank for low‐earners etc.
Topics F: Possible measures that may be taken to revive the Real Estate business in future.
Question Asked: “What were possible measures to revive the real estate business from the ongoing
recession?”
Objectives of the Question: The purpose of this question was to find out developers’ suggestion in order to
come and of the ongoing recession.
Possible solutions :
A. Introduce low interest rate based credit facilities for Real Estate sector by Bangladesh Bank
B. Reintroduction of the Section 19 (B)
C. Incentive Package to sustain the Real Estate sector by Government
D. Approval of private land development projects to increase supply of land for development
E. Government’s special scheme for providing accommodation to low earners under PPP
Important factors to sustain the Real Estate sector (Percentage)
A B C D E
21% 20% 21% 20% 21%
Table 14: Possible solution based on customer feedback
Comments: It was interesting that respondent developers felt that all the above factors were equally
important to sustain the real estate business in future. Besides, developers were also seeking help from
Governments in the form of a incentive package to revive the Real Estate sector from the current declining
situation.
Topics G: Average price increase of flats in different locations based on three different categories A, B and C.
Opinion Asked: “Share your experience on increase of price of flats of various categories in the last two years”
Objectives of the Question: The purpose of this question was to investigate the average price increase ratio
of apartments of three categories e.g. high, middle and lower‐middle earners.
Average Price increase in the three different categories of Flat (A, B and C) between 2010 to 2011
Location Year
2009 to 2010 2010 to 2011
Percentage increase
A
(Prime) 35 39
B
(Middle earner class) 28 29
C
(Lower Middle earner)
23 20
Table 15: Percentage of increasing of Flat Price from 2009 to 2011
Figure 13: Percentage of increasing of Flat Price from 2009 to 2011
Comments: Majority of respondents stated that property price had been continually rising in the last couple of
years. Respondents indicated that increase price of land and construction materials were the main causes of
this phenomenon.
What’s next?
REHAB initiates a large research project to investigate the pos and corns of the whole sectors to bring out the
possible solutions to keep sustainable growth of the industry. By following this REHAB research team will pursue for
a details survey to extract wider spectrum of problems those are facing by Real Estate business organizations.
Contact:
REHAB
NATIONAL PLAZA ( 6th Floor )
1/G, Free School Street,
Sonargaon Road,
Dhaka‐1205. Bangladesh
Phone : 88 ‐ 02 ‐ 9662482
Email: leo@rehab‐bd.org
www.rehab‐bd.org
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members and visitors of the Fair. And this survey report is being prepared to distribute to all REHAB members. The
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