Last year, the number of transferred buildings across the country reached 78,300, setting a new high since statistics were collected. (Photo by reporter Xu Yiping)
[Reporter Xu Yiping/Taipei Report] Last year, the number of inherited and transferred properties across the country reached 78,300, a record high since statistics were collected. If the average residential appraisal value of each mortgage loan released by the Lianzheng Center in the fourth quarter of last year was about 14.635 million yuan as the base period, the estimated value of inherited properties last year was estimated to be as high as nearly 1.15 trillion yuan.
He Shichang, CEO of Xinchuan Real Estate Think Tank, analyzed that because the traditional concept of filial piety has long changed, and the country has entered a super-aging society, the number of elderly people is increasing. Some elderly people, in order to live in a stable place, have an increasingly obvious trend of "leaving their homes for retirement" and are unwilling to hand over their properties to the next generation during their lifetime, and then hand them over to their descendants after their death.
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According to the monthly statistical report of the Ministry of the Interior, since 2022, the number of inherited and transferred buildings nationwide has exceeded 70,000 for four consecutive years, with the highest number in 2025, reaching 78,300. As for the first seven months of this year, it has accumulated more than 44,900, with an average of more than 6,400 a month. If estimated based on this average, it is only a matter of time before the annual breakthrough of 70,000 is reached, and there may even be a chance to challenge new highs again.
The number of buildings reached 44,900 in the first seven months of this year. It is not a problem to exceed 70,000 for the whole year.
Huang Shuwei, director of Colliers International Real Estate Owner Representative Services Department, said that the wave of inheritance will shake up the real estate supply and demand structure and transaction flows. The first is to wait for the number of homeowners to continue to expand, reducing or delaying the demand for home purchases; the second is to shrink buying demand, and areas with poor performance will first experience the first wave of oversupply housing price corrections; and then, housing prices with high vacancy rates and poor management will see housing prices collapse.
Finally, in addition to regional functions, the trend of eliminating the weak and retaining the strong in the real estate market will become more significant, especially the wealth accumulated by the post-war baby boomers and the power of housing price inflation. Once the unbeatable myth of population growth dividend is lost as support, the real estate market will turn to investment area and service content-oriented.
Zeng Jingde, project manager of the Xinyi Housing Real Estate Enterprise Research Office, said that as the population ages, more and more people inherit, especially real estate with large land holdings, urban areas, and long-term holdings. Through inheritance, a considerable amount of land tax can be saved. If people have inheritance needs, they should look at how to plan in advance to be more cost-effective.
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