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View all search resultsReal Estate Indonesia (REI) has suggested that the government address structural issues plaguing high-rise living instead, ranging from unrealistic pricing benchmarks to frequent conflicts in poorly managed apartment communities.
Experts are wary that the new regulation will put more pressure on already struggling low-income communities, as they will have to compete with individuals in the new higher-income brackets to secure affordable housing.
Real Estate Indonesia (REI) central board chairman Joko Suranto says a lack of details on the program run by the Public Housing and Settlements Ministry is causing instability in the country’s property market.
The association has blamed P2P loans as one of the prominent causes behind the bad credit history of potential homeowners, citing that 40 percent of mortgage applications were turned down by banks because of this reason.
REI has asked the government to increase the subsidized housing for this year, given that the market had absorbed 48 percent of the originally allotted 166,000 units to date and supply would likely run out by September.
Property players have welcomed a new set of government-funded incentives meant to reinvigorate an industry hit first by the pandemic and then by rising interest rates, but whether the sweeteners will help the apartment segment out of the doldrums remains to be seen.
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