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South Korean government ministry overseeing housing, land, and transport policy; it publishes official real estate transaction price data.
Seoul's cheapest fifth of apartments rose 2.13% in September, five times the top fifth's 0.42%, cutting KB's price-gap ratio to 6.28. The gap is closing because entry prices are climbing, so buyers without a home face a higher bill to get into the capital.
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Korea's program to buy newly built homes for public rental broke ground on 14,195 of the 288,317 units developers applied with last year, under 5%. New financing terms target that gap, while the wider slump in villa and officetel permits rests on demand worries a public buyer sidesteps.
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Gangnam's smallest flats are hitting records, with a 27-square-meter Jamsil unit selling for 1.95 billion won on Sept. 28. Mortgage limits and heavier taxes on expensive homes have slowed wider trading and sent buyers on tight budgets to the cheapest way into the district.
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Builders outside South Korea's top 100 saw their apartment project-finance balance drop from 6.1 trillion won to 500 billion won in two years. The fall in smaller builders' output since 2021 is nearly all of the country's drop in apartment presales.
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Fourteen Korean real estate trust firms had lent 9.52 trillion won of their own money to troubled building projects by mid-year, up 6.1% in six months. Regional builders that cannot meet project-finance guarantees are passing the losses to these firms, so part of Korea's construction bust now sits on lenders' books.
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Mayor Oh Se-hoon put Seoul's five-year average at 35 newly designated redevelopment zones a year against 17 for the previous decade, and he is asking the land ministry for a fifth more floor area on private sites.
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The amended Farmland Act obliges owners who do not personally farm to dispose of their land, and with prices already falling on fears of enforcement fines, the government and ruling party set a consultation for the 21st to discuss easing both.
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Hyundai Motor Group told a media day in Seongnam that Level 2+ reaches mass production in the first half of 2028, and that it will pass competitors' accumulated driving data within five years of that start. About 40 cars collect its data now.
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New openings of housing subscription accounts have fallen 35.5% from their 2017 peak. The savers walking away are the 30- and 40-somethings, whose bids are exactly what a presale price above nearby resale quietly assumes.
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Incheon Airport's 9,803-space expansion prices out at roughly 115 million won a bay for the Terminal 2 tower. The other 87 percent of the capacity comes off idle land, uncosted.
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Realhouse's read of registered transactions shows 55.5% of Seoul apartment sales this year closed below 1 billion won, with 1,717 deals above 3 billion pulling the citywide average up.
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