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Frozen home revenue current market… down to 10 yr back stage

Full housing gross sales in the very first half of 2022 to get to 84 trillion gained
The economic downturn is spreading generally in apartments and metropolitan places

A observe is posted at a brokerage business in Seoul asserting the unexpected emergency sale. Image = Hankyung DB

The housing marketplace has shrunk to the degree it was 10 several years ago subsequent interest rate rises.

Jikbang introduced on the 16th that as a consequence of examining the true transaction selling price of housing product sales in the very first 50 percent of 2022, only 84.9 trillion received, the full transaction was 84.9 trillion received, less than 100 trillion won. 57.8% fell from 201.4 trillion gained in the second fifty percent of 2020, which recorded the optimum transaction volume in the initial half of the year, and fell down below 100 trillion won for the initially time given that 84.3 trillion gained in the to start with 50 % of 2019. Except half initial of 2019, it fell to 80 trillion gained for the to start with time because 82.3 trillion gained in the 1st fifty percent of 2013.

The full range of condominium income throughout the place was discovered to be 48.3 trillion received in the 1st fifty percent of 2022. This was the least expensive due to the fact it recorded 44.9 trillion gained in the 2nd 50 percent of 2012. When compared to 152.7 trillion won in the next half of 2020, when the transaction amount was the greatest, it fell by 68.4% or 104.4 trillion received. It was down 44.% or 38 trillion won from 86.3 trillion gained in the second fifty percent of 2021. The fall was larger than overall housing profits, so it is interpreted that the current market downturn, this sort of as interest price hikes, experienced a better affect on the apartment market place.

Full housing gross sales other than apartments in the 1st half of 2022 were 17.6 trillion received for single-household households, 13.9 trillion received for multi-relatives models, and 5.2 trillion received for places of work. Apartments recorded the greatest full profits in the 2nd 50 percent of 2020, but properties that are not apartments recorded the best whole revenue in the to start with 50 % of 2021, later on 50 % a calendar year afterwards. The condominium sector is regarded to be primary, and demand is spreading to non-apartment marketplaces because of to the balloon influence.

Semi-annual trend in total apartment sales across the country.  picture = straight

Semi-yearly trend in overall condominium income throughout the country. photograph = straight

In the to start with half of 2022, whole non-apartment income decreased 29.5% and won 7.4 trillion for single-family households, 34.2% for multi-family housing, gained 7.2 trillion, and 25.% for workplaces and won 1.7 trillion. as opposed to the initial 50 % of 2021, when total income peaked. In comparison to the decrease in overall flat income, the decline in non-apartment housing was relatively small.

Throughout the 1st 50 percent of 2022, the total selection of housing transactions in the metropolitan location and provinces also fell substantially. They identified that the overall number of housing transactions in the to start with 50 % of 2022 was 48.7 trillion gained in the metropolitan area and 36.2 trillion won in states. The metropolitan area recorded the lowest transaction sum considering that 45.9 trillion gained in the initially 50 percent of 2013, and the province recorded 36.2 trillion won, the least expensive considering that 32 trillion won in the to start with fifty percent of 2019. Sentiment acquiring is shrinking sharply in the metropolitan place, exactly where there was unexpected development and lengthy prosperity.

Ham Young-jin, head of Huge Information Lab, stated, “Complete housing income in the to start with 50 % of 2022 fell to the stage of 10 many years in the past. The latest contraction in the trading current market transpired in the initial 50 % of 2019, but at the time, the sector was temporarily beneath deal owing to the strengthening of govt laws. During the very first fifty percent of 2022, the deterioration of exterior economic situations these types of as fascination fee will increase, liquidity recovery, and financial contraction is at get the job done, he discussed.

He stated, “Considering that these circumstances are not easily settled inside a brief interval of time, the contraction in the trading marketplace is pretty possible to keep on for a although.”

From Se-seong, reporter at Hankyung.com sesung@hankyung.com