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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…
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…
Korea will introduce 20-year private rental housing and a jeonse deposit trust that pays landlords 4-5% annual returns, part of an Aug.
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's steel, petrochemical and engineering firms are pivoting to AI data center infrastructure, from specialty steel to energy-storage materials, to…
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…
Samsung Electronics opens its first FläktGroup plant in Pune, India, to make data center cooling systems and target the growing Asia-Pacific B2B market.
South Korea unveils the Aug. 13 housing plan to supply 100,000 homes, designating three new public housing districts in Seoul and Gyeonggi.
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…
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.
Seoul apartment listings surged past 64,000 after the Aug. 3 tax reform, but triple curbs on sales, financing and leasing are freezing transactions.
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…
Seoul's Yeongdeungpo District won unanimous backing to restrict data centers in residential zones, aiming to revise city ordinances and the Building Act.
AI data centers are being reassessed as strategic business assets, with GPU utilization, power and cooling efficiency now key measures of competitiveness.
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.
Korea will require real estate agents to disclose shared maintenance costs before tenants sign leases on studios and officetels, effective this month.
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.
The U.S. SEC has exempted AI data center asset-backed securities from disclosure and risk-retention rules, easing funding for tech firms' AI…
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's FSS warns overseas real estate funds can wipe out an investor's entire principal or halt dividends, citing leverage and "cash trap" clauses.
South Korea's ruling Democratic Party is moving to ease rules on private redevelopment to boost housing supply in Seoul, targeting construction-cost…
Korea's financial regulator warns overseas property funds can lose all principal and delay repayment, calling them unsuitable for investors seeking to…
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%.
Daejeon's Dunsan-dong property market surges after six complexes win "pioneer zone" redevelopment status, with listings down 40% and units hitting record…
GS E&C signed an MOU with LS Electric to secure timely supply of power equipment for its AI data center projects.
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.
Attorney Jung Bo-geun explains seller financing as a form of private lending in Korea's property market, its legal status as a quasi-loan, and the risks under the Lending Business Act and Interest Limitation Act.
Monthly rent has overtaken jeonse in Korea's apartment market, reaching 52.4% of leases in H1 2025. Here's how tenants and landlords should respond to the structural shift.
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