다주택자 1년새 9만2천명 늘었다…작년 집주인 100명 중 16명은 다주택자<br /><br />The number of people in South Korea who own more than one home... rose last year by 92-thousand.<br />This is despite government measures that would tend to discourage such a trend.<br />The proportion of homeowners who have more than one property... has been growing since 2014.<br />Kim Jae-hee has this report.<br />Nearly 16 percent of homeowners in South Korea last year owned two or more properties.<br />According to data from Statistics Korea on Tuesday, 84-point-1 percent of homeowners owned just one home in 2019, whereas 15-point-9 percent owned at least two homes.<br />The 2-million-284-thousand multiple homeowners in 2019 is up 92-thousand from the previous year.<br />Statistics Korea says the proportion of multiple homeowners has been increasing every year since 2014.<br />"The proportion of multiple homeowners is rising, although its steepness has eased somewhat since 2017. Multiple homeowners accounted for 15-point-5 percent of the total homeowners in 2017, 15-point-6 percent in 2018, and 15-point-9 percent in 2019."<br />By region, multiple homeowners made up 20-point-7 percent of total homeowners in Jeju, and 20-point-4 percent in Sejong in 2019.<br />Incheon had a relatively low percentage with 14-point-5 percent of homeowners owning multiple properties.<br />Meanwhile, when looking at households rather than individuals, 56-point-3 percent of households in 2019 owned at least one home, a rise of point-one percentage points from the previous year.<br />Among those households, 27-point-7 percent, or 3-million-168-thousand households, owned at least two homes.<br />That's up 2-point-8 percent from the previous year.<br />Kim Jae-hee, Arirang News.<br />
