The proportion of small houses in Liudu and Hsinchu counties and cities exceeds 30%, and in Shuangbei City exceeds 40%.

The changes in the proportion of houses above 50 square meters in the same period in the first half of the past six years in the seven metropolitan areas all showed a decline. (Provided by Yongqing Real Estate Group)

[Reporter Xu Yiping/Taipei Report] With the impact of high housing prices and the average number of people in a household falling below 3, buying a small house has become the main option. Real estate agents have compiled information on actual price disclosures in the same period from 2021 to 2026 and the first half of the past six years. Six cities , Hsinchu County and City, the proportion of transactions of small houses under 30 square meters and large houses of more than 50 square meters. It was found that in the first half of this year, except for Taoyuan City and Hsinchu County and City, the proportion of small houses in the five major metropolitan areas all accounted for more than 30%, of which Shuangbei City exceeded 40%.

According to the Yongqing Real Estate Group, in the first half of this year, Taipei City had the highest proportion of small houses, accounting for about 47.7%. On average, one of every 2.1 transactions was a small house. On the other hand, Taipei City accounted for only about 14.6% of transactions of more than 50 square meters, which was the lowest among the seven major metropolitan areas. On average, only one of every 6.85 transactions was of more than 50 square meters.

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In New Taipei City, there is also a relatively large gap between the proportion of small houses and large-square-meter houses. In the first half of the year, small houses accounted for about 44.1%, and the proportion of houses above 50 square meters was only 16.4%. The difference between the two is 27.7 percentage points.

As for the change in the proportion of residences with more than 50 square meters in the same period in the first half of the past six years in the seven major metropolitan areas, all have declined. New Taipei City has experienced the largest decrease, with a decrease of 7.7 percentage points in the first half of this year compared with the first half of 2021, followed by Hsinchu County and City, a decrease of 6.6 percentage points, and Taoyuan City also decreased by 6.5 percentage points. Looking at the changes in the proportion of small houses in the seven cities during the same period in the past six years, New Taipei City has the largest increase, with an increase of 7.7 percentage points in the first half of 2026 compared with the first half of 2021, followed by Taipei City, with an increase of 5.9 percentage points.

Xiaobiao: In the past six years, New Taipei City has seen the deepest decline in the proportion of large-scale transactions, while small houses have seen the largest increase.

Chen Jinping, deputy manager of the Yongqing Housing Research and Exhibition Center, said that further observation of the unit price increase per square meter of large houses and small houses in the seven capitals showed that, except for Taipei City, the increase in small houses in the remaining six metropolitan areas was higher than that of large houses. This shows that the unit price of low-priced houses has shown a stronger upward trend due to concentrated market demand.

In particular, the unit price of small houses in Hsinchu County and City has increased by 76.6% in the past six years, ranking highest among the seven major metropolitan areas. In addition, the unit price of small houses in Taoyuan has increased by more than 40%, making it the only urban area in the past five years where the unit price of small houses has exceeded that of large houses. #

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