This research analyzes the current situation of and speculation on the real estate and suggests how to prevent such speculation by suggesting how to prevent real estate speculation by pointing out the problem of the government's real estate and housin...
This research analyzes the current situation of and speculation on the real estate and suggests how to prevent such speculation by suggesting how to prevent real estate speculation by pointing out the problem of the government's real estate and housing policy.
It is not strange that people pay attention on the real estate and think it as a big investment chance because of high density of population in Korea. However, it is not a good way if such investment becomes speculation for short term profit and widens the gap between the rich and the poor.
Until today, the government's policy was trying to cover up, not solving the problem itself; the policy was made as an emergency and temporary solution and focused on slowing down the price increase on real estate and preventing the speculation. However, those policies failed and the notorious cycle of real estate-speculation, prohibition, recession, government's supportive policy, and re-speculation-continued. And, the real estate price jumped like a rocket. To overcome such failures, the government introduced new policy on Oct, 29. 2003, called the total countermeasure for the housing market stability.
The new government's policy to solve the real estate speculation can be summarized in the following way.
First, on policy side, the government must improve the financial solution such as the tax-the transfer tax on the transaction income, property tax, and collective real estate tax-realization of the standard price, designation of real estate speculation area, and lowering the ratio of the house mortgage. In addition, the government must strengthen the penalty on the violator of real estate law and regulation and make it active, the real estate related financial products market-REITs, MAS, ABS-so the government could direct the healthy investment on real estate.
Second, the law and regulation must be improved as well. Even though there are numerous laws and regulations about the real estate, they only focus on the forms and steps of the transaction. Therefore, they can't prohibit the speculation properly. To solve such a problem, the method of screening those who foster and/ or commit speculation must be improved and strengthened. The taxation should also be changed to prevent the windfall income by improving the tax policy and designating declared value.
Third, the detail information regarding to the ownership and the transaction of the house, which is basic for human life and can be easily targeted for speculation in Korea. It must be computerized so the real-time status of the land and building could be available.
Forth, the real estate policy is not only a problem for ministry of finance, construction, and transportation. They must also have close cooperation with ministry of education, government, environment, common well-fare, and tax administration. Government should not rely on only temporary emergent solution, but come up with a solution that all population can trust and rely on.
Up to this point, we analyzed the reason of real estate speculation and the problems of the government's policy and regulation. However, it can't be expected that people will follow the laws and regulations without enough understanding. Therefore, advertising real estate related laws and regulations to the public must be enhanced, too.
While conducting this research, the most recent domestic and foreign professional books, various research documents, and the statics of the related government's agencies were used to collect information and theoretical background bout the analysis and problem of the current real estate policy and regulations.