General Assessment

    Variable(2017)
    Data
    Main constraints in the development of the housing finance sector  
    New developments that will have a major impact on the sector 
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    Notes: 77% of urban dwellings considered non-permanent in 2015
    Notes: Addition of private sector banks, state-owned banks, and "other banks"
    Notes: Assumes HBFC is largest and only significant source of housing loans not funded through deposits
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: at the end of June
    Notes: Base Year
    Notes: Grihayan Tahbil provides credit at 2% to NGOs who then provide lower interest rate housing loans to the rural poor at 6%.
    Notes: Grihayan Tahbil provides credit at 2% to NGOs who then provide lower interest rate housing loans to the rural poor at 6%.
    Notes: In 2016, the World Bank piloted the Low Income Community Housing Support Project which gave 40,000 low-income urban residents access to low-interest housing loans with 38-year terms, a service charge of 0.75%, and a six-year grace period
    Notes: Real property in Bangladesh attracts stamp duties that are levied under the Stamp Act, 1899.
    Notes: The state-owned Housing Building Finance Corporation issues housing loans. Sources of the fund are paid-up capital by the government with proceeds through selling government guaranteed debentures
    Notes: The state-owned Housing Building Finance Corporation issues housing loans. Sources of the fund are paid-up capital by the government with proceeds through selling government guaranteed debentures
    Notes: The state-owned Housing Building Finance Corporation issues housing loans. Sources of the fund are paid-up capital by the government with proceeds through selling government guaranteed debentures