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Last year, the nationwide apartment prices rose by more than 20%, but recently this trend has been reversed,
so there is a lot of interest in
what will happen again this year
. The government is on a downtrend, private experts say it will rise slightly this year, but they have different opinions.
Reporter Han Sang-woo covered the real estate market outlook this year.
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Incheon was the place where apartment prices rose the most in the country last year.
The 84㎡ apartment in Songdo jumped from 960 million won to 1.47 billion won in less than a year, a total surge of 40%.
However, since the end of last year, this trend has been sharply reversed.
[Incheon Yeonsu-gu Authorized Broker: I think that the government’s story might not be right for the first time, these days. It seems that almost all the purchase inquiries themselves have been cut off. There are very few people who want to buy it.]
When there are many people looking for a charter in time for the new semester, even this has disappeared.
[Accredited real estate agent in Yeonsu-gu, Incheon: I can't buy and sell now, but I don't go out for charters either.]
From this point on, it seems that the government's claim that the downtrend is clear is correct, but that's not the case everywhere in the country.
In Bundang, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, where there is so-called 'school district demand' in favor of reconstruction, the number of transactions has decreased, but the price has not fallen.
[Shin Seung-cheol / Authorized Realtor in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do: For those who will enter in January and February, the (jeonse) contract is over.
(Buying) The highest price of 1.6 billion won was traded at 1.5 billion won, so it was immediately traded...
.] New
prices are being rewritten in parts of Gangnam, Seoul.
There is such a big difference between regions, and experts predicted that this polarization will intensify this year.
[Kim Gyu-gyu / Head of Asset Succession Research Institute at Korea Investment & Securities: Non-Gangnam region low-end market, there is a lot of supply in the provinces, but these places are falling, and the high-end market is going to be in a polarized situation...
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March election results are also a big variable for the market.
[Lim Seong-hwan / ABL Life WM Manager: The surest way to supply real estate in Seoul is to expand supply through reconstruction. If the next government eases reconstruction regulations a little, the number of complexes with reconstruction issues is expected to rise.]
Experts believe that this year If the government's plan to supply 460,000 households proceeds without any setbacks, and measures such as easing the transfer tax for multi-residential owners continue, it is expected that house prices will show a stable trend.
(Video editing: Kim Jong-tae, VJ: Park Hyun-woo)