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Presale prices for new apartments in Gyeonggi Province rose about 36% in four years, with Guri up 64%, as surging construction costs push non-homeowners…
Korea plans to free greenbelt land near Gangnam, including the Suseo rail depot, to supply over 73,000 homes, with new sites due as early as September.
Korea's prime minister pledges to make housing supply the top priority, visiting construction sites weekly and reporting progress at monthly Cabinet…
Korea's steel, petrochemical and engineering firms are pivoting to AI data center infrastructure, from specialty steel to energy-storage materials, to…
Experts gave mixed reviews of Korea's Aug. 13 housing supply package, praising faster public-land construction but doubting it can stabilize Seoul prices…
Korea will introduce 20-year private rental housing and a jeonse deposit trust that pays landlords 4-5% annual returns, part of an Aug.
Seoul's Yeongdeungpo District won unanimous backing to restrict data centers in residential zones, aiming to revise city ordinances and the Building Act.
Korea's August 13 housing plan names three new public housing districts for 27,000 homes and fast-tracks stalled projects, but defers Gangnam greenbelt…
South Korea unveils the Aug. 13 housing plan to supply 100,000 homes, designating three new public housing districts in Seoul and Gyeonggi.
LH President Lee Sung-hoon inspected the Incheon Gyeyang A2 and A3 blocks, the first occupancy site among Korea's third-wave new towns, urging flawless…
Married couples jointly owning one home in Korea are not multiple-home owners, but a higher assessment ratio from 2028 can raise their real estate tax…
Experts back the direction of Korea's Aug. 13 housing supply plan but doubt execution speed and call its rental-market fix inadequate.
President Lee Jae-myung called real estate a core problem for South Korea, vowing an all-out housing supply push and pledging to revise laws to secure…
Korea's Land Ministry unveiled a plan to speed up housing supply, adding 27,000 homes near Seoul and cutting the site-to-construction timeline to 37…
Samsung Electronics opens its first FläktGroup plant in Pune, India, to make data center cooling systems and target the growing Asia-Pacific B2B market.
Seoul apartment listings surged past 64,000 after the Aug. 3 tax reform, but triple curbs on sales, financing and leasing are freezing transactions.
Some 10,000 Seoul apartment leases expire this year as a tax overhaul pushes landlords to reclaim rented homes, deepening fears of a jeonse supply crunch.
About 10,000 'two-plus-two' jeonse leases expire in Seoul by year-end as landlords reclaim homes, squeezing rental supply and lifting deposits.
About 10,000 "2+2 year" leases in Seoul near expiry as a tax overhaul pushes landlords to move in, tightening jeonse supply and raising tenants' housing…
Korea's rival parties clashed over the government's property tax overhaul and Seoul's housing supply shortage in a National Assembly committee session.
Trump calls AI data centers "Money Machines" and pushes their expansion, but backlash over power and water use is growing even among his conservative base.
Korea will require real estate agents to disclose shared maintenance costs before tenants sign leases on studios and officetels, effective this month.
The U.S. SEC has exempted AI data center asset-backed securities from disclosure and risk-retention rules, easing funding for tech firms' AI…
Samsung SRA Asset Management has completed the sale of an office tower in Seoul’s Gangnam district to the Hyunsong Educational & Cultural Foundation for KRW 445 billion ($314 million), according to exclusive marketing agent Savills. The non-profit overcame a field... Read More>> The post Samsung SRA Sells Gangnam…
Korea's FSS warns overseas real estate funds can wipe out an investor's entire principal or halt dividends, citing leverage and "cash trap" clauses.
Daejeon's Dunsan-dong property market surges after six complexes win "pioneer zone" redevelopment status, with listings down 40% and units hitting record…
Some 545,000 South Korean households live in shanties, greenhouses and motels, a total up 11% since 2020 despite a housing supply ratio above 100%.
South Korea's ruling Democratic Party is moving to ease rules on private redevelopment to boost housing supply in Seoul, targeting construction-cost…
GS E&C signed an MOU with LS Electric to secure timely supply of power equipment for its AI data center projects.
Korea's financial regulator warns overseas property funds can lose all principal and delay repayment, calling them unsuitable for investors seeking to…
KAIST will build an AI-Science Data Center at its Daejeon campus to support interdisciplinary AI research and ease academia's GPU shortage.
South Korea's proposed tax revisions raise the property tax burden on non-apartment landlords, fueling fears of higher rents and a slump in villa…
Fitch warns that a prolonged slump in Korea's stock market could weaken property sentiment and home-buying capacity, as non-homeowner households channel 70% of stock gains into real estate.
Korea's deck plate makers, hit by a construction slump, are eyeing semiconductor plants and AI data centers as a lifeline as chip investment revives demand for construction materials.
Korea's party and government weigh tax reform revisions amid public backlash, while Hana Bank halts variable-rate mortgages and Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon clashes over housing supply policy.
Rattled by party-exit selfies over its real estate tax reform, Korea's government and ruling party weigh looser home loans for youth and non-homeowners and revitalizing redevelopment.
Gwacheon, dubbed "quasi-Gangnam," saw home prices fall 0.01% and jeonse drop 4.36% this year as continued housing supply from reconstruction and land development stabilized the market.
LH President Lee Sung-hoon pledged to speed up housing supply by shortening the compensation process and hiring temporary staff, while planning to turn LH's Seoul HQ into youth housing.
New LH President Lee Sung-hoon pledged to accelerate housing supply by shortening compensation procedures and recruiting temporary staff, and to convert LH's Seoul Gangnam headquarters site into youth housing.
Vertiv Holdings beat profit and cash flow expectations in Q2 FY2026 and raised annual guidance to $14 billion, with a rebound expected in the second half on large AI data center projects.
Korea Development Bank and Korea Post will create a 1 trillion won AI Infrastructure Fund to build data centers and eco-friendly energy infrastructure, their first joint investment in 20 years.
Five U.S. Big Tech firms — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle — hold about $1.09 trillion in off-book data center leases, four times their recognized lease liabilities, Reuters reported.
FuriosaAI will supply 8,800 of its Renegade NPUs to a new AI data center in Stockholm, Sweden, built by U.S. firms I/ONX HPC and Velox, starting early next year.
The Trump administration and FCC are drafting a bill to ban imports of new Chinese optical transceivers used in data centers, citing AI infrastructure security concerns.
HUG tightened credit terms to recall loans in full when street-unit redevelopment falls 25 percentage points behind schedule, raising concerns over housing supply delays.
Seoul's real estate registration filings for collective buildings fell 18.7% year-on-year to 79,220 in July, with Seocho-gu declining most and Gangbuk-gu and Dobong-gu rising.
Seoul's Gangnam-area greenbelt sites are stirring as the government reviews lifting development restrictions to expand housing supply, though land compensation and resident backlash remain key hurdles.
Samsung Heavy Industries signed an engineering contract with U.S. developer M3 to build floating data centers, aiming for commercialization by 2028 with 50MW eco-friendly facilities in Texas.
Korea's 2026 tax reform expands the comprehensive real estate tax to homes over 2 billion won, quadrupling the burden on non-residents and raising rates on homes above 3.2 billion won.
Korean real estate experts say the government's property tax reform will not stop rising home prices, warning of upward pressure on mid-priced homes and a worsening jeonse shortage.
South Korean telecom operator LG Uplus is putting fresh capital behind a 200-megawatt artificial intelligence data centre, as the government announced an ambitious corporate coalition to scale up the country’s AI computing capacity. The board of LG Uplus on 29... Read More>> The post LG Expands AI Efforts with…
Owners of Seoul's ultra-high-end homes worth over 5 billion won see no reason to sell despite Korea's real estate tax reform, betting on holding out amid loan restrictions.
Apartment prices in Seoul's Nowon-gu and Seongbuk-gu surged over seven to ten times year-on-year as anxious buyers flooded in, exposing weak trust in government housing supply plans.
Korea's 2026 tax reform will count up to three years spent away for schooling, job transfers, illness, or caring for parents as residence for comprehensive real estate tax deductions, with a one-year prior-residence requirement.
Korea's 2026 tax reform will impose up to 7 times more comprehensive real estate tax on non-resident single-home owners than residents, with deductions cut to 900 million won for non-residents.
Naver unveiled its AI factory deal structure with Nvidia and Brookfield, using a 9 billion dollar SPV to own GPUs and data centers while minimizing financial risk.
Nonghyup mutual finance bad loans surged 5.5-fold in 4.5 years to nearly 23 trillion won. Korea's government eases rules to let co-ops clear real estate NPLs via a specialized fund.
A commentary argues that Korea's central and local governments must cooperate to expand housing supply, easing relocation loan rules and speeding urban redevelopment rather than shaking the ultra-high-end market.