Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/09/07
By: Pan Tsu-yu and Frances Huang
Taipei, Sept. 7 (CNA) Almost 85 percent of households in Taiwan had their own homes in
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2017, according to the results of a survey released Friday by the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).
The survey found that 84.83 percent of Taiwanese households owned their own homes, a ratio that was down slightly by 0.53 percentage points from a year earlier.
The DGBAS said Taiwanese tend to buy property as a way of keeping their wealth.
The DGBAS added that this is unlikely to change any time soon. [FULL STORY]
