Professional Office Design, Inspiring the workplaces Inspiring the workplaces Weekly News Highlight 1. Housing market is expected to have a soft landing next year 2. Carbon fee is finalized at NT$300 per ton. 3. Chih Hsin is expected to invest NT$2.87 billion in the triple-development project. 4. Electrical and Mechanical Consulting Company (E&M Consulting) is expected to invest NT$472 million in a 340-ping factory in Taichung Industrial Zone. 5. E&E engineering consultant won the bid for a 340-ping factory in Taichung Industrial Park for NT$472 million. 5. Brand builders in Taichung and top luxury brands have become a trend of cross-border cooperation. 1. Housing market is expected to make a soft landing next year. 2024.10.09 Business Times I Correspondent Kuo & Tien／Report The Central Bank is cracking down on speculation in the real estate market, which has cooled down. The latest "Taiwan Housing Market Scenario Light" released by Taiwan Housing Group and the Taiwan Center for Economic Research and Development of Central University shows that the fourth-quarter scenario score is 50.05, a quarterly decrease of 1.88 points; it is predicted that the first quarter of next year will be a slight rebound, but a downward revision in the second quarter, and that the first half of next year's housing market scenario will be transformed from an amber-red to a green light, and that the market will return to a stable and soft landing from the heat. Daren Wu, CEO of the Taiwan Center for Economic Development and Research at National Central University, said that among the major variables, the real gross domestic product and the registration of property sales and purchases declined slightly, but the gross floor area of certified building licenses and the balance of loans for home purchases and repairs rose, and that the fourth-quarter indicator scores, though slightly lower than those of the previous quarter, were still in the yellow-red light of the hot market. Taiwan Housing Group Chief Vice President Chou Hock-ming pointed out that economic fundamentals, capital levels are still the key to the housing market trend, the central bank credit control and the effect of the rise in standards will gradually emerge in the fourth quarter, the annual number of purchase and sale of transferred buildings will also be from the "explosion of the volume of large increase" to "flat slightly increased", only the bank lending level declined, the housing market will only rise again. The fourth quarter of the electricity price increase, deepen the psychology of inflation expectations, coupled with the beginning of next year, military and civil service pay raises, the technology industry year-end bonuses, the short-term willingness to buy a home slightly increased, but after the short-term effect, the international economy cooling variables, is expected to return to the second quarter of the trend of contraction, the first half of next year, is still the pattern of the boom is still burning. Zhou Hecheng believes that the supply of large, more investors in the emerging development areas, into the price consolidation, policy shortcomings in the early sale of cases, a small number of concessions; a small number of elite areas of the release of the indicators of the community, the low total price of the three-room products, the market scarcity of the release of the supporting force is still strong, the price continues to go up. Over the past year or so since the implementation of the new Qingan policy, a lot of first-time buyer demand has been absorbed, coupled with the bank's tightening of the silver bullet, the appraisal of the conservative, the marginal effect on the market will gradually fade; cash buyers who have strong capital and do not need to apply for a large number of loans, the competitiveness of the market has been greatly enhanced, and you can slowly select objects with good preservation of value, and become the biggest winners of the real estate market. In addition, industrial real estate and commercial real estate are not the subject of speculation. Enterprises, based on long-term development, purchase land and build factories after medium- and long-term prudent planning, some high-asset groups will turn to invest in storefronts and commercial offices, and the post-war baby boomers' retirement rigid demand has led to a recent trend of warming up of recreational farmland and farmhouses, which are low in tax costs. 2. The carbon fee was finalized at 3% per ton.