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Ever
considered buying a house recently? It’s a real headache! With the soaring
property prices in the Asia Pacific region, buying a property has become
increasingly difficult especially for the younger generation.
Everyone
will want to have a house, an apartment or a plot of land for various purposes.
The first certainly due to the need for shelter, and the next is for an
investment or a gift for a loved one. Before you do that, let's look at this
important information, so you have an accurate picture before deciding to
purchase the property.
A
recent YouGov survey reveals that a
majority of the residents (79%) think that the property pricing in the Asia
Pacific region is unreasonable. Find out more:
2015 APAC Property Market Overview:
While some people see buying residential property as an investment, many
people only buy that for residential purpose. However, in general, do people
afford buying residential property in Asia nowadays? YouGov has recently
conducted a survey to investigate people’s views on buying residential property
across Asia Pacific.
According to the survey, 59% of respondents currently own a residential
property (solely or partially), of which the
ratio of owning a residential property is the highest in Indonesia (71%),
and the lowest in Australia (48%) and Hong Kong (49%).
In general, 52% of respondents plan to buy a residential property in 1-3
years’ time. Compared to those who do
not own any residential property (48%), those who have previously solely (57%)
or partially (52%) owned a residential property show higher tendencies to buy
another property in the following 1-3 years. 33% of those who plan to buy
residential property in the next 1-3 years are planning to buy outside of their
country and Australia (12%), Malaysia (8%), and Singapore (6%) are the most
preferred countries.
In regards to funding the purchase of a property, most of the respondents
prefer buying ‘with their own savings’ (54%), and 43% consider ‘home mortgage’
as the best method. Across Asia Pacific, most Thai people prefer buying ‘with
their own savings’ (62%), and most Australians prefer to use ‘home mortgage’
(62%), while only 14% of Thai people prefer ‘home mortgage’.
Among the 48% of respondents who are not planning on buying residential property
in the next 1-3 years, most of them explain that they cannot afford to buy a
residential property at the moment (46%), and 23% do not plan on buying because
they already solely/partially own a residential property. The response ‘cannot
afford buying a property at the moment’ is shown more in younger age group (60%
in age group 18-24 years old) rather than in older age group (28% in age group
55+), whilst the response ‘already solely / partially own a residential
property’ is shown more in older age group (35% in age group 55+) rather than
in younger age group (6% in age group 18-24 years old). Compared to other
countries, Hong Kong topped the list on the response of ‘cannot afford buying a
property at the moment’ (55%).
Regarding the pricing of residential property, most of the respondents
believe that it is not at all or not really reasonable/affordable (79%). These
response was mostly shown in Hong Kong (91%), followed by those from Malaysia
(90%) and least to be found in Indonesia (60%) and Thailand (67%). 42% of the
respondents who are thinking of using ‘home mortgage’ set their ideal
proportion of monthly salary allocated for home mortgage as 20-30%.
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New apartment in Singapore. Image: sgnewproperty.com.sg
To relieve housing problems in their countries, 48% of the respondents
expect their government to have tax reductions in order to relieve households’
burden on home mortgage. 48% of them also expect an increase in the amount of
government subsidy housing.
This YouGov survey was conducted online among YouGov’s proprietary
panelists between 14th and 21st of August 2015.A total of 11,687 people
responded to the survey, of which 1,749 were Australians, 1,668 Chinese, 1,139
Hong Kongers, 1,826 Indonesians, 1,792 Malaysians, 1,792 Singaporeans and 1,721
people from Thailand. All data are weighted to be national representative of
online population.
Information
source:
https://ap.yougov.com/en/news/2015/09/22/apac-property-market-overview/?utm_source=Newsletter_Sept2015&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Property_RegionalSurvey
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