{"id":675743,"date":"2026-09-06T19:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/675743\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T19:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:17:24","slug":"taiwans-mortgage-curbs-squeeze-middle-class-spare-cash-rich-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/675743\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s mortgage curbs squeeze middle class, spare cash-rich buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/property\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Property<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Restrictions meant to cool overheated market result in longer loan screening times<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260902N Taipei high-rise\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">More buyers are reportedly paying with cash for high-priced properties in Taipei.\u00a0(Photo by Tsukasa Hadano)<\/p>\n<p>TSUKASA HADANO<\/p>\n<p>September 6, 2026 14:09 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TAIPEI &#8212; Mortgage regulations imposed by Taiwan&#8217;s central bank to cool the overheated housing market are having unintended side effects, as wealthy buyers increasingly pay in cash, keeping prices high while middle-income households face longer loan approval times and tighter lending standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Property Restrictions meant to cool overheated market result in longer loan screening times More buyers are reportedly paying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,18787,285758,33108,285756,179,18,19,17,28461,20097,238330,285757,110412],"class_list":["post-675743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-buyers","tag-cash-rich","tag-class","tag-curbs","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-middle","tag-mortgage","tag-spare","tag-squeeze","tag-taiwans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117225708337486722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}