August 14, 2011
Government’s inflation fight will decide short-term future, analysts say Motorcyclists ride past a construction site in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City on August 8. For the first time in two years, land prices have gone down in Hanoi. Perhaps for the first time ever, developers are offering apartments in lieu of cash [...]
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July 16, 2011
Tougher laws, stricter verification of criteria needed Homebuyers submit purchase applications at a low-cost housing project in Ha Dong District, Hanoi A number of illegal trading cases in low-income housing as well as registration fraud have been uncovered in the capital city, exposing policy shortcomings. It is evident that there are people purchasing the [...]
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May 22, 2011
A construction expert talks about Vietnam’s need to create more low-income housing Apartment buildings in Ho Chi Minh City. Land prices must fall to make apartments available to low-income earners, a construction expert said. High land prices have driven up the cost of housing. In order to make apartments available to low-income earners, land [...]
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May 20, 2011
The Ngo Thi Nham Building, the first-ever low-income housing project in Hanoi Hanoi police said they have discovered the first case of illegal trading in low-cost housing, following reports that some apartments developed for the poor were offered to better-off buyers. News website VnExpress on Thursday reported that Cao Thi Loan was found to have [...]
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March 17, 2011
Workers at a construction site of an apartment project in Ho Chi Minh City Twenty-four-year-old Nguyen Thi Hoa lives in the slums of Kim Chung Commune in Hanoi’s Dong Anh District along with many other low-income workers from nearby industrial parks. The Hai Duong native moved to this place two years ago after getting a [...]
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February 25, 2011
A worker sweeps a street near an apartment building in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2. A proposal by the Ministry of Construction to limit apartment ownership to fixed terms has divided officials and experts. Some say term ownership will help bring down home prices in Vietnam and help spur housing upgrades and the building [...]
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February 4, 2010
LookAtVietnam – While apartments were the choice of many property buyers it appears tastes are changing and instead people are wanting street-fronted houses. After a long period of escalation, prices of apartments in Hanoi have been decreasing over the last two months, coming back to the original prices Investors had hoped that prices would increase pre-Tet [...]
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January 31, 2010
LookAtVietnam – The real estate market will remain stagnant if the State Bank maintains its tight monetary policy through the first half of this year, experts warn.However, this lull provides a good opportunity for people with real housing needs rather than speculators to buy properties, according to experts. Nguyen Son Trung, director of HCM City-based [...]
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January 24, 2010
Construction is ongoing at the Diamond Island project in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 2 Real estate developers in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City say luxury penthouses and other apartments priced at millions of dollars are selling well. Nguyen Kim Son, director of sales and development at BTA Development Investments that invested in the Dao [...]
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January 21, 2010
LookAtVietnam – The Ministry of Finance still has not decided whether to tax houses or let them be exempt. As a result, it is collecting public opinion for the Housing Tax Bill before submitting it to the Government. Following previous times when they have put the housing tax plan on the table at National Assembly’s meetings [...]
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