00:02You're listening to AI Prism from Seoul Economic Daily.
00:06Three numbers about to matter if you're watching Seoul's property market.
00:11Seoul apartment Jeonsei prices have risen for 84 straight weeks.
00:15Global investors like KKR and GIC are pouring back into Korean rental housing.
00:21And five previously abandoned redevelopment zones just restarted, all at once.
00:26It's Wednesday, September 23rd.
00:30Let's look at what's happening in Korea's property market.
00:33Seoul's chronic supply shortage keeps pushing both Jeon's deposits and monthly rents higher across the city,
00:39not just in traditionally expensive districts.
00:43At the same time, global institutional investors who once favored Tokyo and Hong Kong
00:48are shifting money into Korean rental housing as the market moves toward monthly rent.
00:53And regulatory easing is reviving redevelopment projects that had been stuck or abandoned for years.
01:00Here's what the numbers show.
01:02Seoul apartment Jeon's prices have risen for 84 consecutive weeks, up 7.79% so far this year,
01:10nearly five times last year's pace.
01:13Monthly rent deals above $3,001,000 climbed 9.7% nationwide this year,
01:18with the Nohuan Dobong Gangbook Belt, seeing such deals jump from just 1 to 12.
01:24Global investors including Morgan Stanley, KKR, GIC, and Nuveen now operate or are developing
01:32roughly 5,000 rental units in the Seoul area, with agreements in place for nearly 20,000 more.
01:39Seoul's monthly rent share of all lease transactions hit 69.7% in the first seven months of this year,
01:45up from 63.8% a year earlier.
01:50Five previously stalled redevelopment zones including Yomni 4 and Songmoon 2 restarted this year,
01:57adding to 163 of 389 previously cancelled zones now back in the pipeline.
02:02The combined Mokdong 9 and 13 complexes cleared integrated review for a 7,810-unit reconstruction,
02:11while planned Seoul apartment completions keep falling,
02:14from 25,281 units this year to 13,683 by 2028.
02:22So what does this mean for buyers and renters in Korea?
02:25Earlier, we said Jeon's prices have climbed for 84 straight weeks.
02:30Here's what that actually means for you.
02:33With new supplies shrinking through 2028 and rents rising even in traditionally cheaper districts,
02:39both buying and renting in Seoul are getting more expensive at the same time,
02:43not one instead of the other.
02:46Watch three things.
02:47Whether these revived redevelopment zones actually slow the drop in completions,
02:52how far global institutional buying pushes rents in non-apartment housing,
02:56and whether the government's tax relief for rental operators materializes to ease supply pressure.
03:02That's today's AI Prism, real estate.
03:06This episode was produced with AI assistance based on Seoul Economic Daily reporting
03:11and reviewed by a human editor.
03:14AI Prism is a WANIFRA award-winning series.
03:17We'll be back tomorrow.
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