From January to September, Seoul apartment rents rose most in cheaper outer districts such as Nowon (12.88%) and Seongbuk (11.82%), while Gangnam rose just 2.62%. Outer-district tenants who signed with low deposits during the 2022-23 jeonse price slump are now reaching...

Seoul apartment sales fell 48.7%, from 8,946 in May to 4,589 in August, yet the median sale price in September was 13.4% above last December. Loan curbs make it harder for buyers to...

About $124.6 billion in mortgages get new interest rates by year-end. A loan of about $151,000 at 3% could see its monthly payment rise from about $716 to as much as about $985. Yet...

Minors aged 0 to 19 who bought homes by the end of August reported 56.7% of the KRW 23.1 billion (about $16.5 million) deal value as "own funds." But that box on the form is for money...

In the first nine months of this year, monthly-rent deals on Seoul apartments fell 2.8% from a year earlier, yet the monthly-rent share rose from 43.7% to 51.0%. That is because jeonse deals fell 27.5%, or about 32,000...

New mortgages from Korea's five biggest banks at rates of 5% or more grew from KRW 166.5 billion in December 2025 to KRW 2.3362 trillion in August 2026, a 14-fold jump, but that is...

Renewals made up 50.8% of Seoul apartment jeonse leases in January–August, yet the share of renewals using the legal renewal right fell from 56.7% last year to 53.3% this...

Of 83,776 Seoul apartment sales reported last year, 6,419 (7.66%) were later canceled, more than double the 3.41% of 2021, and the rate was higher in popular districts such as Guro (10.33%) and Seongdong (10.32%). A record...

Korea's fixed mortgage rate rose 0.91 percentage points, from 3.97% last October to 4.88% this August, nearly twice the base-rate increase over the same period (0.50 points). Fixed rates track what...

In 2028 alone, 45,256 households in Seoul's redevelopment zones will move out, while only 13,683 new apartments are expected to open that year. New homes appear only after...

Under the government plan, the capital gains deduction for long-time one-home owners gets a 1-billion-won ($743,000) cap from 2029, and apartment listings in Seoul's three Gangnam districts have since risen 64.1% from the end of...

After Seoul was turned into a land-transaction permit zone that makes buyers live in a home for two years, Seoul apartment jeonse listings fell 15.7% from the day the measures were...

Korea's mortgage rates rose four months in a row, from 4.32% in May to 4.66% in August, yet homes at or under 600 million won (about $444,000) grew from 17.0% of Seoul apartment sales (December 2024-September 2025) to 25.1% (contracts since...

From January to July 2026, home buyers in Seoul's Nowon, Dobong and Gangbuk districts listed a combined total of about KRW 2.133 trillion in loans from financial institutions on their funding-plan filings, more than the KRW 1.9059 trillion in Gangnam's three districts. Counted for the...