Housing transactions in Taiwan's 6 biggest cities plunge 24% year-on-year

Transactions of residential and commercial property in Taiwan's six largest cities tumbled about 24 percent from a year earlier in the first quarter of this year, with analysts citing a rate hike cycle launched by the central bank and the government's measures to cool market speculation as the main reasons.

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