Even if interest rates are raised and loans are blocked... Housing prices in the metropolitan area reach a 7-week high

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base rate is raised and commercial banks are tightening loans, the upward trend in house prices shows no sign of stopping. The increase in apartment prices in the metropolitan area continued to the highest level for 7 weeks as the announcement of the supply of new housing sites announced as a house price stabilization policy rather boosted local house prices.

This is reporter Hyung-woo Hyung.

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An apartment near the recently announced new housing site in Uiwang, Gyeonggi-do.

On the 21st of last month, an 84-square-meter apartment, which was traded for 840 million won, had a asking price of 1.2 billion won.

[Uiwang City Authorized Realtor: It stayed in the mid-$800 million range, but this time (announcing the land), it was traded at 1 billion won. (The

price is

listed between 1.1 billion won and 1.2 billion won.] As the

possibility of the GTX line stopping due to the development of public housing sites increased, house prices rose in a week.

Government measures such as raising the base rate, tightening loans, and announcing additional supply plans are not having any effect at all.

The rate of increase in house prices in the metropolitan area has been recorded at 0.4%, the highest level since statistics were compiled, for three weeks in a row, and continued the highest increase for the seventh week.

In particular, while housing prices are relatively cheap in Gyeonggi-do, it seems to be following the Seoul housing price level around the GTX line or areas with high development expectations.

[Ham Young-jin/Director of Big Data Lab: Because the flow of transactions is driven mainly by end-users, mid-to-lower prices become incentives to raise prices like the 'circular sales trend' in the stock market.]

In Seoul, too, apartment prices are steadily rising, centering on reconstruction complexes such as Nowon-gu, Dobong-gu, and Songpa-gu, as plans to revitalize redevelopment such as easing restrictions on floor heights along the Han River have emerged.

Experts analyzed that house prices were approaching their peak, with apartment prices in the top 20% of the metropolitan area exceeding 1.5 billion won on average for the first time, but expected a short-term uptrend to continue.

(Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)