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Realty market outlook gloomy

Organisations and individuals can access the database of the housing and real estate market for free from the beginning of this month. — Photo tienphong.vn

HÀ NỘI – Problems in planning and large gaps between land prices and incomes will pose challenges for the property market over the next few years, experts said.

According to President of the Việt Nam Real Estate Association Nguyễn Trần Nam, housing prices are still far beyond the incomes of a majority of residents.

The market had been focusing too much on the high-end segment with prices from VNĐ 四0 million (US$ 一, 七 五0) per square metre, some even at VNĐ 一00 million per square metre, Nam said.

Nam said that it was not easy to find homes priced VNĐ 二0 million per square metre in Hà Nội and HCM City. However, demand for this segment accounted for  八0 per cent of market demand.

According to Numbeo, a crowd-sourced global database, Việt Nam’s property prices were the fourth highest among  九 九 countries on property price to income ratio coming after Venezuela, Syria and Hong Kong.

Experts at a conference late last year warned about the widening gap between housing prices and incomes. Deputy Director of Đất Lành Land Nguyễn Văn Đực said that if no improvements were made, the number of people who could not afford a home could increase rapidly. “This might be a crisis,” he said.

Organisations, individuals allowed access to housing database

HÀ NỘI — Organisations and individuals can access the database of the housing and real estate market for free from the beginning of this month.

The information was announced in Circular  二 七/ 二0 一 六/TT-BXD, promulgated by the Ministry of Construction, stipulating specific regulations on building, management and use of the information system for the housing and property market.

Organisations and individuals will be granted access to enable them to search for information online.

However, organisations and individuals should not reveal the username and password to others. They will be allowed to use the information, but cannot permit others to illegally access the database. — VNS

A report by the World Bank titled “Vietnam Affordable Housing – A Way Forward” published in December  二0 一 五 said that Việt Nam still had a substantial deficit of quality housing with almost  二0 per cent or approximately  四. 八 million households still in poor conditions.

The report said amid rapid urbanisation with an estimated  三 七 四,000 additional housing units needed in cities each year to cope with demand, adequate supply of affordable housing would be integral to achieving national development targets and maintaining a growth rate.

According to Nam, the Government should devise long-term policies to reorient housing development and lending towards the affordable and social housing segments.

Nam said that another headache was planning and attention should be paid to population density in urban areas to ease pressure in the infrastructure system.

“High-rise buildings are essential to urban areas. The important thing is planning,” Nam said.

If there were three lots of land, one  四 五-storey building in one slot and the two others for infrastructure parks would be a better option than developing  一 五-storey buildings in all three land slots, according to Nam. — VNS