Keyword: "public land"

According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), more than 11,000 public land and property facilities nationwide have been recovered or transferred to local authorities but have yet to be put back into use. The portfolio includes office buildings, public service facilities and many land plots in prime urban and residential locations.

To bring land prices close to real value in the market, legal regulations need to allow the establishment of an independent land valuation body to assist with the building of the land price table and adjustments when deemed necessary, an expert has said.

Ho Chi Minh City has decided to convert some 20,000 square metres of public land into residential land to resettle nearly 200 households in the Thu Thiem new urban area whose lands it wrongfully took over.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Planning and Architecture has proposed a 1:2000 scale for zoning of three areas in the eastern part of the city.

Domestic and foreign experts shared their experiences in land economy during a conference jointly held by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and the World Bank in Hanoi on July 13.

A regulation recently issued by the Hanoi People’s Committee requires basements be part of new constructions in the inner city.