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Last year, apartment prices nationwide fell by more than 7%, the largest drop ever.



The price continued to fall, and the transaction itself decreased significantly to the extent that the word “ice age” came out.



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Helio City in Songpa-gu, Seoul.



In November 2021, an exclusive area 84m2 apartment was traded at 2.45 billion won, but it was traded at 1.65 billion won, down 800 million won last month.



[Real estate official: It feels like the urgent sale has gone out in a few days and the floor is being pounded...

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In fact, last year, apartment prices nationwide fell by more than 7% nationwide, with double-digit declines in Incheon, Daegu, and Sejong.



If so, will the steep decline in house prices continue into this year?



Real estate research institutes predicted that house prices this year would fall by 2-4% from the end of last year.



The biggest factor is high interest rates and the difficult economic situation this year.



[Park Won-gap/KB Kookmin Bank Senior Real Estate Expert: So-called negative growth, negative growth will shake the economic fundamentals, so the real estate market is also greatly affected.

A recession could be an ambush for the market…

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However, once the base rate hike is completed in the first half of this year, the possibility of a decrease in house prices is also raised.



[Kim Jin-yu/President of the Korea Housing Society: Even after the IMF, the interest rate was usually 15%.

But at that time, trading normalized after 3-4 years.

The reason is, since the interest rate has been maintained, you can make a (buy) plan.]



Experts say that government measures, such as the additional lifting of regulatory areas or the abolition of heavy taxation for multi-homed people, can not immediately rebound the market, but play a role in preventing a sharp drop in prices. I expected to do it.



This year, as the number of apartment movers increased nationwide and sales were converted to jeonse, the number of charters was expected to increase.



As a result, as the jeonse price falls further, concerns about reverse jeonse are expected to grow.



(Video editing: Lee Sang-min, VJ: Kim Sang-hyeok)