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the end of last year, real estate prices have been adjusted in some areas. Accordingly, the government believes that the trend has entered a period of decline, but private experts have different opinions.



Reporter Han Sang-woo covered the real estate market 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 is not right for the first time, and I think that almost all 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 Broker 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 is 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...

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prices are being rewritten in parts of Gangnam, Seoul.



There is such a big difference between regions, and experts expected this polarization to get worse this year.



[Kim Gyu-gyu / Director of Asset Succession Research Institute at Korea Investment & Securities: Non-Gangnam region mid-low-priced 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 where it continues to maintain a high point...

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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.