The Taichung MRT "City Hall Station" not only enjoys favorable conditions for the intersection of the two MRTs, but also houses department stores and iconic businesses. (Provided by Yongqing Real Estate Group)
Since the opening of the Taichung MRT Green Line in 2021, the traffic volume has grown steadily. However, the commuting time of some adjacent stations is less than 5 minutes, and the housing price performance is completely different. Based on the real price registration data, the industry took stock of residential transactions within 800 meters of each station of the Taichung MRT Green Line in 2025, and found that the top three with the most significant price differences "one stop away" were composed of "City Hall Station" and "City Station" "Xinyinghua Station" ranked first with a price difference of 117,000 yuan per square meter; "Wenxin Chongde Station" and "Siwei Elementary School Station" ranked second with a price difference of 94,000 yuan; "Jiushe Station" and "Songzhu Station" ranked third with a price difference of 87,000 yuan.
According to 2025 real price registration statistics, the price difference per square meter between "City Hall Station" and "Bunshin Sakura Station" is as high as 117,000 yuan. After conversion, for the same 30-square-meter residential purchase, the price difference between the two stations is as high as 3.5 million yuan. Zhang Yongfu, manager of Yongqing Real Estate's Taichung Taiwan Avenue franchise store, analyzed that the city government station is located in the mature fifth- and seventh-phase rezoning areas. There is the city government administrative center in the area, and it also gathers major department stores and commercial offices. In the future, there will be benefits from the intersection of the two MRTs, so it attracts a large number of out-of-town home buyers to name their homes.
Zhang Yongfu said that in comparison, the early development of "Wenxin Sakura Station" was mostly residential buildings. There is currently no good news about major construction, but because the price is relatively affordable, local customers prefer to buy houses here. With the continued development of the rezoning area around City Hall Station, it is expected that the price gap between the two stations will continue to widen in the future.
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With a price difference of 94,000 yuan per square meter, the second place in the housing price difference is "Wenxin Chongde Station" and "Siwei Elementary School Station". With the same house purchase budget of 10 million yuan, the difference in the area that can be bought between the two adjacent stations is 8.5 square meters. Xu Rongrong, associate manager of the Beitun Nanxing MRT franchise store of Yongqing Real Estate, said that "Wenxin Chongde Station" is located at the intersection of two main roads. There are many chain brands and banks along the line. Commuters and vehicles gather together, and the living functions are excellent. The adjacent "Siwei Elementary School Station" is dominated by local small shops. The difference in housing prices is due to the huge difference in the flow of people.
Xu Rongrong said that the area around "Wenxin Chongde Station" is dominated by building products, and the average price per square meter of medieval houses has exceeded NT$400,000. Since the two stations only take 3 minutes to ride, if budget is taken into account, home buyers will move to the "Siwei Elementary School Station" where the average square meter is prefixed with 3. Since this area belongs to the mature fourth-phase rezoning area and the overall structure has not changed much, it is expected that the price difference between the two stations will remain stable and will not be easy to expand.
The third highest price difference is between "Jiushe Station" and "Songzhu Station", with a price difference of NT$87,000 between the two stations. Lai Zhengyan, manager of the Beitun Nanxing Dunfu franchise store of Youchao House, pointed out that "Songzhu Station" belongs to a mature old urban area. There are as many as 70% of the medieval houses in the surrounding area that are more than 20 years old. There is also a lack of hinterland for development, attracting home buyers with limited budgets. On the contrary, the area around "Jiu She Station" located in the rezoning area of Unit 12 is dominated by new buildings within the past five years. Because there is a large amount of undeveloped large-scale land, future development is expected.
Li Zhengyan said that although Taichung home buyers are mostly accustomed to taking their own transportation and the actual MRT ridership rate is not high, Jiushe Station attracts young first-time homebuyers with its neatly rezoned street outline, square layout planning and large American-style stores. Driven by the future development potential, the housing prices of Jiushe Station are significantly ahead of Songzhu Station, making the adjacent Songzhu Station a high-CP value home purchase option.
Chen Jinping, deputy manager of the Research and Exhibition Center of Yongqing Real Estate Group, said that the significant gap in housing prices between adjacent stations on the Taichung MRT Green Line is not only due to the MRT itself, but also reflects the differences in regional positioning, rezoning and development, and living functions around each station. Among them, core areas such as Phase 7, Civic Center, and Phase 11 rezoning areas have significantly higher housing prices than adjacent sites due to luxury residential complexes, commercial and office functions, and major construction blessings. In the emerging rezoning areas and old urban areas, there is also a price gap due to different house ages, street profiles, and product types.
It shows that Taichung’s housing market has shifted from “rising as soon as the MRT is available” to gradually competing with regional development maturity and living quality. It is recommended that in addition to considering the convenience of MRT, home buyers should also evaluate their own needs and affordability, regional development maturity, living functions and future growth potential, and flexibly use "cross-station economics" to find an ideal house that meets their needs, takes into account self-occupancy and future value preservation in just a few minutes' drive.
