Living in an apartment

This paper investigates the components of residential satisfaction of dwellers living in developer-built medium-rise apartment buildings in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The study used a survey research method where a randomly selected sample of 204 apartment dwellers in 6 neighbourhoods responded to a structured questionnaire. Data analyses revealed six components of residential satisfaction of which 'Management and Maintenance' made the strongest unique contribution in predicting residential satisfaction. However, the location of the apartment building was an important predictor of overall residential satisfaction. Thus, urban planning and urban design characteristics were more important to overall residential satisfaction than the strictly architectural characteristics. Overall, the findings demonstrate that residential satisfaction in Dhaka is a multidimensional construct dependent on a high performance level of a number of factors discussed in this paper.