As of the end of June this year, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced statistics on "foreign housing and land ownership" on the 29th.
As of the end of June, a total of 95,058 domestic homes owned by foreigners were tallied, up 3,605 from six months earlier.
Among them, 52,798 houses owned by Chinese people accounted for 56% of the total.
After Chinese, 21,360 Americans (22.5%), 6,225 Canadians (6.5%), 3,307 Taiwanese (3.5%), and 1,894 Australian (2.0%).
72.8% of foreigners' homes were located in the Seoul metropolitan area. Gyeonggi Province has the largest number of households (38.7%), followed by 23,085 households in Seoul (24.3%) and 9,407 households in Incheon (9.9%).
Meanwhile, the area of land owned by foreigners in the country stood at 265.654 million square meters as of the end of June, up 0.4% from the end of last year. This corresponds to 0.26% of the total land area.
Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team
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