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Amidst the cold wave in the real estate market, the number of unsold apartments is rapidly increasing.

The government believes that the unsold housing situation is approaching a dangerous level and is considering further deregulation.



This is reporter Kim Jung-woo.



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is an apartment construction site in Gwangmyeong City, Gyeonggi Province, which is scheduled to move in in 2025.



It is a 10-minute walk from Subway Line 7 in a large complex of 3,800 households, so it was expected that the subscription performance would be good.



However, the recently closed first-priority subscription recorded a low competition rate of 0.96 to 1.



In the case of 59 square meters, only about half of the 695 households have found owners.



[Yoon Soo-yeon/Real Estate Agent: Those who said, 'If you sell, please contact me, please contact me' now think that the sale price is a bit high.

Even if you take out an interim payment loan, you will have to pay back several thousand (ten thousand won) in interest



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As of the end of last month, there were 58,000 unsold homes nationwide, an increase of more than 20% from a month ago, and a whopping 36% increase in the metropolitan area.



If this trend continues, it is expected to exceed the 62,000 households that the government sees as an unsold risk line next month.



[Kim Gyu-gyu/Director, Korea Investment & Securities Asset Succession Research Institute: As the price of nearby houses decreases compared to the higher pre-sale prices, there is a high possibility that the subscription failure or the abandonment of the contract will increase.

It seems that the number of unsold homes will increase nationwide.]



Housing transactions have also frozen.



From this year to last month, the nationwide housing transaction volume was 480,000, a 50% decrease from the same period last year.



The situation in Seoul is the same, last month the number of apartment sales was only 761, the lowest ever.



Amid growing concerns about a hard landing in the real estate market, there are observations that the government's additional deregulation areas to be announced next month will include Nowon, Dobong, and Gangbuk-gu in Seoul, where house prices are declining rapidly.



(Video coverage: Kim Gyun-jong, video editing: Park Ki-deok)