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While the prospects for the real estate market in the new year are mixed, unsold apartments continue to pile up. First of all, it is a prominent phenomenon outside the metropolitan area, but it is said that the metropolitan area cannot be relieved.



Reporter Han Sang-woo on the sidewalk.



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is a newly built 1,000-unit apartment building right next to City Hall in the heart of the old downtown of Daegu.



Construction is in full swing, and there are banners all over the site saying 'first-come-first-served sale'.



The application for sale was completed in September last year, but there are still unsold units left after four months have passed.



A 750-unit apartment in Dong-gu, right next door, also received an application for sale in July last year, but there are still unsold units.



It is advertised that if the down payment is 10 million won, you can select a building and a lake to receive the sale.



[Daegu Regional Real Estate Agent: If the pre-sale market is hot, people may say, 'Should I try it here?' .]



Outside the metropolitan area, this phenomenon is more pronounced.



There are nearly 4,000 unsold apartments in Daegu and Gyeongsangbuk-do, and over 1,200 unsold apartments are vacant even after completion or move-in.



Hundreds of unsold homes are piling up in Busan and Daejeon, and tens of thousands of new homes are being sold this year alone.



[Lim Seong-hwan / ABL Life WM Manager: Location is important now, so there is a high possibility that the polarization phenomenon, which is difficult to expect to be sold out, will intensify unless it is in the core areas of Seoul or the metropolitan area.]



In the metropolitan area, which seemed to be irresistible, there were also signs of change depending on the region. Comes out.



In Gyeonggi-do, the number of unsold houses increased by 23% in a month, approaching 1,000 households.



Experts believe that there is a high possibility that the number of unsold units in the metropolitan area will increase depending on the location in the metropolitan area as the interest rate on loans rises this year.



(Video coverage: Jeon Gyeong-bae, video editing: Jung Yong-hwa)