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Korea Land & Housing chief Lee Sung-hoon wants the 600 million won mortgage cap on greater Seoul homes up to 1.5 billion won lowered. His plan uses credit to hold prices until new supply arrives, and buyers in their 30s, the heaviest borrowers, would put up more of their own cash.
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Gwangmyeong apartment prices rose 15.53% this year through Sept. 28, ahead of chip-money Yeongtong's 14.68%, after gaining just 0.36% a year earlier. That swing is a supply rebound, and a lead this narrow does not show it beating chip money across Gyeonggi.
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Seoul apartment prices rose 0.09% in the week to Sept. 28, a record 86th straight weekly gain, at a third of late August's pace. Gangnam District fell 0.56%, the steepest of its last six weekly declines, so districts outside Gangnam now carry the citywide gain.
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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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Renewals hit 50.8% of Seoul apartment jeonse contracts through August as new leases fell 38%, though renewal numbers slipped about 8%. With lease listings down about a sixth and completions set to fall, the share measures how few homes are coming up to let.
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Seoul jeonse deposits rose 5.91% in the first eight months of this year, the most since 2011, while monthly rents rose a record 5.65%, official data show. That pressure is now lifting apartment prices outside Gangnam, where the government's focus on sale prices has not held them down.
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Seoul apartment jeonse listings fell 16.7% in a year to 19,853, with the cheaper northeast and southwest accounting for about 72% of the 3,979 lost. Whether owner-occupancy rules or falling completions removed them decides how much stock easing the rules would bring back.
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Seoul will hold 20-year public-housing tenants to their move-out dates from 2027 as the average apartment jeonse reaches a record 636.63 million won. Each exit is meant to free a unit for a waiting-list family, so the policy mostly changes which households chase Seoul's thinning listings.
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Korea Real Estate Board researchers found large new Seoul complexes cut nearby jeonse prices 2.39% within 500 meters, with no significant effect farther out. Counting new units by district therefore overstates how much relief existing tenants get.
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Seoul's apartment leases above 3 million won a month rose 9.7% to 6,570 through September 22, and every added contract came from the 22 districts outside Gangnam, Seocho and Songpa, where the count fell by three.
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Seoul's apartment price index is closing on a record run of weekly gains, and President Lee Jae-myung says the remedy is still balanced national development, so the curbs on loans and taxes stay in place.
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Korea Real Estate Board figures put Seoul apartment jeonse up 7.79% by the second week of September, the steepest run since 2015, and the 1 billion won contracts are now signing in Seongbuk and Dongdaemun, well outside the Han River belt.
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Seoul's mayor says apartment prices have risen for 86 straight weeks and the Korea Real Estate Board says 83, with the Moon-era record of 85 sitting between them, so whether the record has fallen depends on which weeks you count.
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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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Seoul's row houses already average above the 400 million won ceiling, and the officetels below it average 28 square meters. The credit is real; the eligible housing largely is not.
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Apgujeong's Shin Hyundai now lists 4.21 billion won below December's record. Apgujeong logged one sale in 20 days and Banpo two, against four and 12 a year earlier.
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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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