Despite the epidemic, experts assess residential real estate as a profitable investment channel. House and land prices are moving sideways at the moment but are expected to increase rapidly when the epidemic is under control. The housing market will grow well when the demand for housing and real estate investment is still very high, less affected by Covid-19. The most interesting segment will be land plots, mid-end and high-end apartments.
Forecasting the market until the end of this year, Mr. Do Viet Chien, General Secretary of the Vietnam Real Estate Association, said that people's demand for housing, especially in big cities, is still very high. Mr. Chien emphasized that the mid-end and even high-end apartment segment will still prevail and be interested. "Vietnamese people still want to own a house", Mr. Chien said. Mr. Nguyen Van Dinh, Vice Chairman of Vietnam Real Estate Brokers Association, forecast that the market will start to recover around the fourth quarter after the epidemic can be controlled in the third quarter. Price forecast, Mr. Dinh said that house prices, land prices not only will not decrease but tend to increase. Especially, even in the context of the epidemic, there are still projects that increase prices when there is enough legal basis, despite not being able to sell right now. This reflects the psychology of many investors who are considering real estate as a safe "shelter" channel, even further for post-epidemic opportunities.