Maizuddin Ahmed, secretary general of BBMOA, in a statement said the current rate of one thousand of best quality brick ranges between Tk 3,500 and Tk 3,800, while Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) leaders on Sunday at a press conference claimed the prices of one thousand bricks reached Tk 5,000 in 2007 against Tk 3,100 in 2005, an increase by 62 percent.

Rejecting the REHAB claim, Ahmed said brick price varied but it did not go over Tk 5000 excepting the ceramic brick price, according to the BBMOA statement.