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Jeonse is a South Korean rental system where tenants pay a large lump-sum deposit instead of monthly rent, refunded in full at lease end.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
South Koreans sent $210.3 million abroad to buy property in the first four months of 2026, nearly 35% of 2025's five-year-high total of $590.5 million. The pace points to a record year, and a Korean tax rule that ignores foreign homes explains it at least as well as the stronger won does.
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Jeju added 603 unsold homes in the three months to July, a record backlog made up mostly of finished buildings standing empty, while the island's average presale price for new apartments still trails only Seoul's.
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Five of Seoul's 25 districts are still short of their 2021-22 highs, which is the best argument that the city's rally has room left and also the reason a change to the mortgage ceiling would land on them first.
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Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok backs the overhaul's direction and wants the exemption list read broadly. The 900 million won deduction may hold; the number of owners it reaches may not.
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Seoul home prices rose 1.09% in July, wider than June, with the steepest gains in the city's cheaper northern districts. The bid is rotating into redevelopment stories, not fading.
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Bank household lending rose 5.4 trillion won in July against June's 7.6 trillion, and 1.3 trillion of that 2.2 trillion slowdown sat in credit loans as retail equity buying collapsed.
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