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CNN,
2025-11-28: Housing
remains a major burden: Taipei's house price-to-income
ratio has nearly tripled in the past two decades, surpassing London, New York
and even Hong Kong, according to the Global
Property Guide.
★ Economist, 2025-11-27: The more fundamental real estate issue is the low-taxation regime on property holdings. Financial conglomerates , developers and landowners, and politico-business networks from land development are the primary bankrollers of Taiwan's electoral politics; perfect alignment with the core interests of Taiwan's political-donation system makes this structure impregnable. Genuine productive investment languishes as capital is drained into property. This is the true root of Taiwan's low wages, weak consumption and collapsing birth rates. economist.com/letters/2025/11/27/taiwans-real-estate-problem
★ Economist, 2025-11-13: Taiwan's rise, and its astonishing current-account surplus have been supported by its long-standing policy of keeping its currency weak. The distortion is the cheap currency inflating property prices, which are more than four times higher than they were in 1998. The median house-price-to-income ratio in Taipei, at 16, is higher than for London, New York or Seoul. Policymakers and even voters may see these costs as a worthwhile sacrifice to preserve export-led growth. But it makes imports more expensive and has deprived Taiwanese consumers of the fruits of growth. economist.com/briefing/2025/11/13/taiwans-amazing-economic-achievements-are-yielding-alarming-strains
★ Economist, 2025-1-30: Unaffordable-island!! Taiwanese youth complain of becoming “housing slaves”. A new generation is questioning the value of homeownership. Taiwan has over 9m housing units for only about 8m households. |
| facebook.com/TheEconomist/posts/1077364737755379/ ps: free expression in Taiwan is a problem too - above is a picture, because words were attacked by hackers |
| ★ Taipei Times, 2025-7-21:Taiwan's mostly unregulated rental market is failing the homeless and other disadvantaged groups. From the last quarter of 2001, real housing prices nearly tripled. Two policies: rental subsidies and public housing, both are failures for the homeless and other disadvantaged groups. A book by an expert at the University of Wyoming writes , Taiwan's housing has a unique combination of high homeownership rates, high vacancy rates and high housing prices — the three highs, must now be added high rents. taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2025/07/21/2003840628 |
| ★ United Daily (經濟日報社論), 2025-6-15: Taiwan real estate prices, bearish in the long termudn.com/news/story/7338/8807600?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2 |
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| ★ United Daily (經濟日報社論), 2025-2-13: The implementation of the two policies, the Urban Renewal Ordinance(「都市更新條例」) and the Dangerous and Old Building Reconstruction Ordinance(「危老重建條例」), has been poor. To avoid the risk of a major earthquake, rebuilding old houses is obviously better than extending the life of old houses. However, the current house prices have a downward trend, while the cost of labor and building materials has an upward trend... |
| ★ New York Times, 2024-4-4: The government had also helped reinforce private apartment buildings over the past six years by adding new steel braces and increasing column and beam sizes, some of the older buildings that had been retrofitted in this way survived Hualien's quake. Taipei 101, once the tallest building in the world, still, some experts say that more needs to be done to either strengthen or demolish structures that don't meet standards, and such calls have grown louder in the wake of the magnitude-7.4 earthquake. nytimes.com/2024/04/04/world/asia/taiwan-hualien-earthquake-prepared.html |
