A century of time to buy housing! – Tejarat News
According to Tejarat News, according to published official statistics, the waiting time for buying a house in Tehran was 28 years, 66 years and 109 years respectively in 2018, 2019 and 2019. It shows the year and 49 years.
The figures we hear now for buying housing have become more strange and astronomical than ever. Figures that are not at all below one billion tomans, and now it is even said that in smaller cities like Qom, it is not possible to buy a house with less than one billion tomans.
Meanwhile, in the south of Tehran, if there was a time when you could buy a house with less than 9-digit numbers, now the prices have reached the ceiling, and in the latest price announcement, you must have at least one and a half billion tomans in your hand to maybe be able to buy a house.
This is despite the fact that a worker with a salary of 7 million Tomans, if he does not eat or wear anything, to buy an apartment worth 1.5 billion Tomans in the south of Tehran, he needs about 142 months, that is, about 12 years, to become a home owner. . This is despite the fact that the price of the house has not increased in these 12 years, otherwise, he would have to pay a lot more to buy a house in the suburbs or south of Tehran.
Of course, this is despite the fact that the Iranian Statistics Center announced the average price of one square meter of housing in Tehran for December 1401 as 54,963,000 tomans, which is 4.5 million tomans higher than the housing price in December this year, and according to this report The monthly housing inflation reached nearly 10 percent (9.8 percent) in January, a large figure that is nearly five times the critical inflation rate.
The story of astronomical figures is not only related to buying a house in Tehran and now it has involved most of the big cities and towns of Iran. On the other hand, this crisis has now involved the issue of housing mortgage and rent in a wider dimension.
This strange and complex situation in the field of housing occurs while, according to the constitution, building housing for the weak sections of the society is one of the most important duties of the government, but governments in Iran have almost never succeeded in solving this crisis. The 13th government, which came into office with the promise of building one million housing units per year, has been unable to implement this slogan.
The promise of one million houses per year will not be fulfilled
Bahman Arman, an expert on economic and housing issues, also says about the government’s planning for housing construction: “The promise of creating one million housing units per year was made while the financial aspects of this plan were not taken into account. Of course, the government gradually realized that it is not possible to build one million housing units per year with the current mechanisms, and that is why it has changed its policies several times during this period; For example, he talked about building a one-story residential unit and recently said that he will provide land to people so that they can build their own housing.
In the meantime, it should be noted that the Central Bank and the Statistical Center of Iran have practically not published any statistics on the housing situation in February until the date of publication of this report, and it even seems that they are planning to publish official statistics about Stop the developments in the housing market of Tehran and the country.
The publication of the two main official statistics in the field of housing in Tehran and the housing market in the whole country has been practically stopped and closed by the two statistical authorities of this field, as before, the official data on the developments of the housing market in Tehran on a monthly basis in the first week of each It used to be published in the month and the information about the housing situation in the whole country was also published seasonally with an interval of two seasons, but now the latest statistics presented are related to the first week of January.
However, Seyyed Mohammad Mortazavi, the head of the National Center of Mass Builders of Iran, says about the poor state of the construction system in the country: “Housing production, which in the not-so-distant years was close to one million units per year, has now reached one-third, and the volume of mass builders’ activity and Manufacturers have reduced to a third of normal conditions and plunged into recession. In recent years, due to this deep recession, the circulation of housing construction has fluctuated between 300,000 and 350,000 units per year on average, and if necessary, necessary and effective measures are needed to exit the construction market and housing production from the multi-year recession conditions that are currently “If it is not done, the situation will be much worse than what has been experienced so far.”