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A53
Vietnam Real Estate Week 3, October

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MARKET SITUATION
Vietnam real estate market
still very attractive and full
of potential
SGGP – 13 Oct, 2008
Bankruptcy risks of real estate
enterprises
Vneconomy – 17 Oct, 2008
REAL ESTATE FOREIGN INVETSMENT
Viet Nam invests in a modern
urban village in Laos
Vnagency – 13 Oct, 2008
Mapletree to construct a
technology city in Binh Duong
TheSaiGonTimes, 14 Oct, 2008
One more resort in Hue invested
by Korea
VietRees, 15 Oct, 2008
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Many delegates attending the International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) at the area of Asia - Pacific
on the seventh time that has just been held in Ho Chi Minh City have assessed that the real estate
market in Viet Nam still is full of potential and is very attractive.
A total area of 150,000 m2 at 15 centers and commercial areas is too small as compared with the
current demand, especially when the retail market is very hot with an increasing number of international
tourists. Additionally, in Ho Chi Minh City, there are only about 6,950 hotel rooms that meet 3 - 5 star
standards and the number of serviced apartments in Ho Chi Minh City are also limited. Therefore,
according to many opinions, the investment opportunities in the real estate industry in Viet Nam in
general and in Ho Chi Minh City in particular for the foreign enterprises are still quite good, especially
when the policies of the government is becoming easier and the investment growth is good. In addition,
Ho Chi Minh City still needs a large number of welfare apartments and housing areas.
Although the real estate market is full of potential, Vietnam is facing many challenges. According to
some experts’ prediction, the real estate market can recover with its quickest speed in late 2009
because the current housing demand of people is very high. However, most of them have to rely on the
support of the banks. In addition, the legal system in the management and development of the real
estate market has not yet completed; the administrative procedures are too complicated; the
implementation of the projects takes a long time and the increase in expenses lead to the price
increases of the properties. Although the real estate market has currently remained at unchanged prices,
investors and customers are still expecting further price decreases. As a result, it is difficult for the
market to recover in the near future.
According to a survey of VietRees at the brokerage centers and transaction centers in Ho Chi Minh City,
all of them have seen the state of few customers and the substantial reduction in the volume and the
scope of activities. Most of them have only operated moderately. In the past, although many trading
centers changed into trading floors, the transactions have still had no sign of prosperity. The transaction
situation of apartments, townhouses and project land continues to drop (the price decrease has been
over 50% as compared with before) and the prices for sale are leveling off.
In fact, currently, the capital source of the enterprises investing in the real estate business has been
unchanged. The basic reason is the current capital sources have been mobilized with the maximum
capacity. Even so, in order to limit the negative impacts of the financial crisis towards VN’s economy, the
government has directed the State Bank of Viet Nam to have measures of closely supervising the loans
for investment, especially the investments in the high-risk fields such as real estate. The housing
demand of people is still high, but most of them still need the support of the banks. Therefore, the fact of
maintaining the policies that tighten the management of the real estate market together with the high
interest rate is not only the difficulty of enterprises but also the barrier in their accessing the bank loans
for the people who have real demands to buy homes.
With the current context, according to experts’ prediction, the enterprises will have to try to manage
themselves and wait in the short term. However, many real estate enterprises must face the actual risks
of bankruptcy in the long term.
On October 12th, 2008, the project of “Saythany Urban Village” with a total investment of 25 million USD
was commenced at Saythany suburban district, Vientiane city, Laos. The project is 14 hectares in size,
including 100 villas, one 9-storey-hotel, one 5-storey trade center and other welfare projects. The project
is expected to be put into operation in 2010.
Three cooperative shareholders including Vientiane city, XomMai Trading Co., Ltd. (Laos) and Hong
Thai Construction & Consulting Co., Ltd. (Vinh city, Viet Nam) will establish Vieng – Vinh Development &
Investment Cooperation Co., Ltd to execute this project together.
MapleTree Investments Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) signed a land lease agreement with Becamex IDC Corp.
on October 14th, 2008 to develop a technology zone for business & production on a site of 75 hectares
in Binh Duong industrial - urban area with a total investment of 400 million USD.
The project is used for the enterprises operating in the fields of processing software, developing high-
tech software, researching and developing products etc. The project is expected to commence in 2009.
On October 14th, 2008, Thua Thien - Hue Provincial People's Committee licensed Dream Palace
company (Korea) to invest 32 million USD in the construction of Dream Palace Resort at Chan May-
Lang Co economic zone.
The project is built on a site of approximately 27 hectares, including villa type motel areas, service areas,
sport areas and entertainment areas with the criterion of being friendly with the environment.
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Total FDI in Viet Nam until
September, 2008
Tong Cuc Thong Ke
VIETNAM IN THE WORLD
VN dropped in the rankings of
a global competition order
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REAL ESTATE AGENTS
Century Group opens a real
estate transaction center
Ha Noi Moi – 10 Oct, 2008
Hoa Binh Corporation wins
many contracts in succession
VietRees – 16 Oct, 2008
Binh Dinh: One more tourism
project of 70 billion VND
SGGP – 16 Oct, 2008
Starting the project of Bitexco
68-storey tower
Thanh Nien – 17 Oct, 2008
BIDV provides credit facilites
for the tenants of apartments
Dan Tri – 17 Oct, 2008
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Until September, 2008, the whole
country has had 885 new FDI
projects licensed with a total
registered capital of 56.3 billion
USD. In which, the field of
industry & construction accounts
for 57.5% of the total registered
capital.
th th
As compared with last year, VN has dropped by 2 ranks from the 68 rank to the 70 on the board
ranking the global competitive ability of 2008 announced at World Economic Forum (WEF) on October
th
8 , 2008.
WEF will give marks and rank the economies based on the announced statistical data and opinion polls
of the experts. The United States has still been leading because their economy has kept a high
productivity and creative ability together with the ability of allocating resources to the most effective
areas. The next countries are Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Singapore, Finland, Germany,
Netherlands, Japan and Canada.
Among East Asian countries, Vietnam has only ranked above Philippines and Cambodia (Laos and
Myanmar have not appeared on the ranking board). The report assesses that Vietnam has exceeded the
black round of the group 1 and is moving to Group 2. The strength of Vietnam is the stability of macro
economy, health care - primary education and the market scale. The weaknesses of Vietnam are the
infrastructure, training and university education and the Technology Readiness Level. Vietnam has 22
factors that rank it 100th or lower and 12 points that place it 40th among 109 detailed criteria used for
evaluation, allocation of points and ranking.
On October 10th, 2008, after 2 months of carrying out the pilot operation and fully preparing the material
facilities, Century Group officially opened its real estate transaction center (the branch Hai Ba Trung) at
304 Tran Khat Chan Street. At the transaction center, customers will be provided real estate package
services such as transactions (purchase, transfer, lease and purchase-lease), brokerage, consulting,
assessment, advertising, management - exploitation and auction in terms of real estate.
On this occasion, Century Group has also officially announced the operation of Century Valuation JSC
formed from the valuation center of Century Group.
In the morning of October 13th, 2008, Thu Duc Housing Development JSC (ThuducHouse) showed that
Hoa Binh Corporation (HBC) was chosen as the contractor of the bid package No.3 with the contents as
follows: executing the construction & erection, completing the body part of TDH - Truong Tho apartment
building project at Truong Tho ward, Thu Duc district, Ho Chi Minh City.
Previously, Hoa Binh was also chosen as the main contractor to execute CR5 and CR8 plots located in
the project of Semicircle Lake area, Phu My Hung with the height of 7 stories, the value of nearly 460
billion VND and the construction time of 12 months.
In the morning of October 16th, 2008, Investment Promotion Center of Binh Dinh province showed that
Tan Nghia Construction - Investment Co., Ltd. (HCMC) was licensed to develop the construction
investment project of the tourism site at No.3, Song Cau - Quy Nhon tourism service line.
Tan Nghia Quy Nhon service-tourism site owns an investment of 70 billion VND, including types of
resort-tourism areas and introducing the cultural features of Binh Dinh together with eco-tourism,
camping, relaxing, eating and drinking.
Bitexco Group and Huyndai E&C Co. signed a main bid package contract worth 93 million USD (which
belongs to the project of Bitexco Financial Tower) on the evening of October 16th, 2008.
Bitexco Financial Tower is located at No.1 Ho Tung Mau street, district 1, Ho Chi Minh City. The tower is
262.5m high, including 68 storeys and 3 basements, built on a site of approximately 100,000 m2. It is
expected to be completed in 2010.
On October 17th, 2008, PFV Investment and Commerce JSC (the investor), Bank for Investment and
Development of Vietnam (BIDV) – Quang Trung branch (the agent providing credit services), CBRE
estate investment and consulting company (the agent marketing and trading) – have officially signed a
contract for cooperation to support the customers in borrowing loans to pay for leasing apartments which
belongs to the project of trade center and Vincom Park Place high-end apartments for lease at 114 Mai
Hac De Street, Le Dai Hanh ward, Hai Ba Trung District, Ha Noi city.
CBRE has been mandated to be the business agent for leasing the apartments of the project. The
branch of BIDV at Quang Trung will lend its capital to the customers who have registered for leasing the
properties in the projects with the loans of up to 70% of the total expense of leasing an apartment and
the maximum duration for the loans is 15 years. It is expected that on October 23rd, 2008, PVF will
officially introduce and receive the registrations of leasing Vicom Park Place apartments.
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Websites of real estate companies in Vietnam
Property developers
Ho Chi Minh
Company 585 - www.585.com.vn
Company 584 - www.congty584.com.vn
An Phu - www.anphugroup.vn
BCCI - www.bcci.com.vn
Daewon - www.daewon.vn
Him Lam - www.himlam.com
Hoang Anh Gia Lai - www.hagl.com.vn
Linh Phong Conic - www.conic.com.vn
Nam Long - www.namlongvn.com
Phu Long - www.phu-long.com.vn
Phu Quoc Land - www.phuquocland.net
SacomReal - www.sacomreal.com
Sadeco - www.sadeco.com.vn
Resco - www.rescovn.com
Thai Thinh Capital - www.richlandhill.com.vn
Thu Duc House - www.thuduchouse.com
Phu My Hưng - www.phumyhung.com.vn
Van Phat Hưng - www.vanphathung.com.vn
Vietnam Land SSG - www.saigonpearl.com.vn
Ha Noi
FPT Land - www.fpt-land.com
C.E.O - www.ceoholdings.com.vn
Gia Tue - www.giatue.com.vn
HUD - www.hud.com.vn
HDB Viet Nam - www.hdbgroup.com.vn
Keangnam - www.eng.kne.co.kr
Nam Cuong - www.namcuong.com.vn
Song Hong Land - www.songhongland.com.vn
Vinaconex - www.vinaconex.com.vn
Vincom - www.vincom.com.vn
Viet Hung - www.ecopark.com.vn
Other cities
Becamex IDC - www.becamex.com.vn
Biconsi - www.biconsi.com.vn
Tuan Chau - www.tuanchau-halong.com.vn
GNSVINA - www.cozyvill.com
Company 579 - www.cecico579.com.vn
Duc Manh - www.ducmanhco.com
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Brokerage
Ho Chi Minh
An Gia - www.angia.com.vn
ACBR - www.acbr.com.vn
Dat Xanh - www.datxanh.com.vn
Dia Loi - www.nhadatdialoi.com.vn
Dat Cat - www.datcat.com.vn
FICO - www.ficohome.com.vn
Kim Son - www.kimson.com.vn
Phuc Duc - www.phucduc.com
Hung Phu - www.hungphunhadat.com
Hung Thinh 2 - www.diaochungthinh.com.vn
Hoang Quan - www.hoangquan.com.vn
Intresco - www.intresco.com.vn
Loc Dien - www.nhadatld.com
Nova - www.novahomes.com.vn
Phat Hung - www.phathung.com.vn
SacomReal - www.sacomreal.com
Tan Dien - www.tandien.com.vn
Ha Noi
Cland - www.cland.com.vn
Dong Do - www.dongdobds.com
Phu Thai Group - www.phuthaigroup.com
Petrowaco - www.petrowaco.vn
Petrolimex – www.pland.com.vn
Other cities
Dieu Hien - www.dieuhien.com.vn
Thien Loc - www.thienlocnhadat.com.vn
Research
CBRE - www.cbrevietnam.com
Savills Viet Nam - www.savills.com.vn
VietRees - www.VietRees.com
Consulting
CBRE - www.cbrevietnam.com
Dong Duong - www.indochina-consulting.com
Eden Real - www.edenreal.com
Hop Nhat - www.uniland.com.vn
Indochina Land - www.indochinacapital.com
Long Gia Khang - www.longgiakhang.com
Savills Viet Nam - www.savills.com.vn
Vina Capital - www.vinacapital.com
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Evaluation
AREV - www.arev.com.vn
Hoang Quan - www.thamdinhgia.com
Vietland - www.thamdinhgia.com.vn
VVFC - www.valuation.vn
Construction
Ho Chi Minh
CIC8 - www.cic8.com
Coteccons - www.coteccons.com.vn
Cosaco - www.cosaco.com.vn
Hoa Binh - www.hoabinhcorporation.com
Hai Thanh - www.haithanh.com.vn
Toan Thinh Phat - www.toanthinhphat.com.vn
Ha Noi
Constrexim - www.constrexim.com.vn
Cavico - www.cavicovn.com
HANCIC - www.hancic.com.vn
HUD - www.hud.com.vn
Incomex - www.incomex.vn
Architect and Interior Decoration
Ho Chi Minh
A2 Visualization - www.a2viz.com.vn
Cat Moc - www.catmoc.com.vn
Nha Vui - www.nhavui.com
Nha Viet - www.nhavietdecor.com
Nha Dep - www.nhadep.com.vn
Pho Xinh - www.phoxinh.com.vn
Ha Noi
ACT - www.act.com.vn
ADKientruc - www.adkientruc.com
Ashui – www.ashui.com
Kien Truc Ha Noi - www.kientruchn.com
Other Countries
Architects 61, Sing - www.a61.com.sg
DP Architects, Sing - www.dpa.com.sg
SWA, USA - www.swavietnam.com
Ong&Ong, Sing - www.ong-ong.com
RSP Vietnam, Sing - www.resp.com.sg
Surbana Vietnam, Sing - www.surbana.com
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REAL ESTATE PROJECT AND PRICES

Constructing RAAS high-end According to RAAS Group, the project of RAAS eco-tourism site (also called Resort and Spa area -
thousands of stars underwater) in Dam Bay, Nha Trang will be built following 5-star standards to serve
eco-tourism site Miss World 2010 contest celebrated in Nha Trang.
Kinh Te Do Thi – 14 Oct, 2008 The tourism site can serve over 5,000 visitors per day on a total area of approximately 569 hectares,
including 2,000 hotel rooms underwater, 20 floating restaurants, underwater clubs, 12 seaside resorts
and the Miss World village area. The village area includes 195 units showing the features of each nation
together with other facility service systems.

Ha Noi about to have one more The People's Committee of Ha Noi City has decided to transform the old racecourse area and the green
new urban area tree park at Dai Kim, Hoang Mai, Thanh Liet commune, Thanh Tri into a functional-urban area of 196
hectares, bordering Cau Buou new urban area.
Ha Noi Moi – 15 Oct, 2008
The project includes high-rise building areas, offices, green-tree parks, religious works, national security
works and a 32 hectares air-conditioning lake.

Thanh Hoa: Constructing an eco-
tourism site in Nghi Son island
Kinh Te Do Thi – 16 Oct, 2008
In the morning of October 15th, 2008, the Management Board of Nghi Son economic zone announced
the detailed planning of Nghi Son island eco-tourism site - Nghi Son economic zone, Thanh Hoa
province with a total area of 100 hectares.
The project includes: central areas (4 blocks of high-rise motels, 23 low-rise motels with swimming pools
and garden yards, health care centers, restaurants, conference houses, swimming pools and etc); ethnic
culture villages; forest planning area for mountain climbing, camping; green tree park areas, seaside
resorts and etc.

Constructing a complex trade Binh Tien - Bits's Consumer Good Production Co., Ltd (HCMC) has been licensed by Dak Lak Provincial
People’s Committee to construct the complex trade center in Buon Ma Thuot.
center in Buon Ma Thuot
The project owns a total investment of over 30 million USD, including: multi-functional trade areas, bank
Thanh Nien – 17 Oct, 2008 - finance areas, offices for lease, 5-star hotels. The project is expected to be commenced in the first
quarter of 2009.
High-grade apartment prices at
HCMC are not changed compared
with September, 2008
Edited by VietRees – Oct, 2008

Announced prominent real estate developments during the last 2 weeks*

Week 2, October 2008 Week 3, October 2008
Other Areas Na Hang ecotourism zone (Tuyen Quang), 27-storey office RAAS eco-tourism site (Nha Trang), Dream Palace
building Le Van Luong (Ha Tay), Apec new urban area Resort (Thua Thien-Hue), Thanh Tri functional urban
(Thua Thien - Hue) area (Ha Noi), Nghi Son island eco-tourism site (Thanh
Hoa), Biti’s complex trade center area (Dak Lak)

Approved prominent real estate developments in HCM City*

Housing, apartment, residential area
September
Phu Thuan Ward HA (Dist.7), Tan Kien Town ReA (Binh
Chanh), Thanh My Loi B RA (Dist.2), Phuoc Thien RA
(Dist.9), 99 Ben Binh Dong AP (Dist.8), Nhon Duc –Phuoc
Kien RA (Nha Be)
October
Apartment building No.1 – No.31 Calmette Street (Dist.1)
Resettlement area at Phu My Ward (Dist.7)

Office, commercial Tan Thanh Ward complex building (Tan Phu), C6/27 Pham Complex of Vietnam – Japan cultural park (Dist.2)
Hung commercial center (Binh Chanh), Tan Binh
commercial – service center (Tan Binh)
* Note: RA=Residential Area, AP=Apartment Building, HA=Housing Area, RuA=Reurban Area, TA=Tourism Area, IA=Investment Area, UA=Urban Area, ReA=Resettlement area

Websites of properties in Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh
Blooming Park - www.bloomingpark.com
Saigon Paragon - www.saigonparagon.com
Dragon City - www.dragonland.com.vn
Preche - www.preche.com
SaigonPearl - www.saigonpearl.com.vn
V-Star - www.v-star.com.vn
Time Square - www.timessquare.com.vn
The Everrich - www.theeverrich.com
Tan Da Court - www.tandacourt.com
Lancaster - www.lancaster.com.vn
The Vista - www.thevista.com.vn
Ha Noi
Viglacera Tower - www.viglaceraland.vn
My Dinh – Me Tri RA - www.sudicosd.com
Bac An Khanh RA - www.vinaconex.com.vn
Ha Noi Plaza Hotel - www.charmvit.co.kr
Phap Van – Tu Hiep RA - www.hud.com.vn
Other cities
Furama Resort - www.furamavietnam.com
Sai Gon – Mui Ne Resort - www.saigonmuineresort.com
Sunspa ResortVietnam - www.sunsparesortvietnam.com
Other cities
Cozyvill - www.cozyvill.com
Flamingo Dai Lai - www.flamingodailai.com
Van Phu township - www.dothivanphu.com
Dam Vac Golf - www.damvacgolf.com
Sanctuary - http://sanctuary.com.vn
Ho Tram Strip - www.hotramstrip.com
Sai Gon Sunbay - www.ctc-corp.vn
Eden Lagi Resort - www.edenreal.com
Van Quan – Yen Phuc township - www.hud.com.vn
Quoc Te Do Son - www.vietlandgroup.com

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Property Retail Price

Updated on information from ACBR, Van Phat Hung, Hung Thinh, Phuc Duc, Tuoi Tre Newspaper and developers (VietRees gathered by direct surveys), listed prices can be
original prices or transfer prices at current or at one week prior from the date this newsletter is issued.

Typical apartments in HCM city Other apartments and land lots

Distri Area Price (million
ct (m2) VND/m2)
+/-
Apartment building – HCMC
Sailing Tower 1 100 70 -
The Lancaster 1 120 72.8
Cantavil 2 100 33.1
Constrexim 4 78.4 22.4 +
Estella, Dist.2 V- star, Dist.7 Sky Garden 3, Dist.7 Orient 4 71 28
* 105m2 – 31 million VND/m2 * 85.56m2 – 17 million VND/m2 * 71m2 – 32.4 million VND/m2 Hung Vuong Plaza 5 130 33 +
* 147m2 – 33 million VND/m2 * 91m2 – 33 million VND/m2 Tan Da 5 98 26
An Phú Hưng 7 76 26
New Sai Gon 7 98.9 21
Bong Sao 8 59.8 13
Thai An 12 73 13
Dat Phuong Nam BTH 109 25.5 -
Sacomreal – 584 TP 81.9 16.2 -
Development land lots – HCMC
Blooming Park, Dist.2 Phu My, Dist.7 The Everich, Dist.11 An Phu – An Khanh 2 200 31 +
* 115m2 – 29 million VND/m2 * 83m2 – 24 million VND/m2 * 112m2 – 1,800 USD/m2 Phu Gia 2 119 12
* 135m2 – 31million VND/m2 * 117.7m2 - 23.5 million VND/m2 * 161m2 – 1,900 USD/m2 An Phu Hung 7 72 29 +
Direct contact with the investor1
Sadeco ven song 7 200 26 -
Khang An 9 144 8.5 +
Hai Yen BC 100 8.3 -
Trung Son BC 120 38 +
Long Hau 2 NB 176 5 +
Long Thoi NB 400 7.7
Binh Chieu TD 168 11
Apartment building - Ha Noi
Preche, Dist.2 Panorama, Dist.7 Saigon Pearl, B.Thanh
Doi Nhan BD 85 21 -
* 147m2 – 2,300 USD/m2 * 141m2 – 43.9 million VND/m2 * 86m2 – 2,100 USD/m2
Trung Van CG 71 16.8
* 154m2 – 2,500 USD/m2 * 147m2 – 45.9 million VND/m2 * 140m2 – 2,000 USD/m2
Yen Hoa CG 97 22
Viet Hung LB 72 10.9 -
Ciputra TH 144 28 +
Nang Huong TX 68 13.5 -
Van Quan TX 67 16.2
Development land lots – Other provinces
My Phuoc 3 BD 300 1.6
Viet – Sing BD 600 3
The Vista, Dist.2 BMC Hung Long, Dist.7 The Manor, B.Thanh Khang Linh BR-VT 303.3 6.5
* 140m2 – 1,636 USD/m2 * 78m2 – 20.5 million VND/m2 * 98m2 – 2,300 USD/m2 Lan Anh – Ap Bac 2 BR-VT 87.5 2
* 102.6m2 - 24.2 million VND/m2 HUD DNI 140 2.1
Thanh Hung DNI 120 2.3 +
Long Hau 2 LA 90 5

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Kien A Investment & Services Co., Ltd. - An Phu Ward, District 2, HCMC - Tel: (84.8) 740 6688, Fax: (84.8) 740 6949

Danang: 225 Huyen Tran Cong Chua - T: (84) 511 836 216 * HCMC: 390 Nguyen Cong Tru, D.1 - T: 8 821 7509 * Hanoi: No.6-1D Trung Yen New Town, Caugiay - T: 4 783 1598

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PROPERTY SUPPLY FOR DIFFERENT TARGETS OF CUSTOMERS

Social wefare houses for worker
VietRees
* Saigon Construction Corporation investor two apartment blocks high 5-storey for workers in Quarter 1,
Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc Dist, HCMC.
* Hung Vuong JSC has just put a 5-storey apartment building into use for cadres and workers. The
company continues to petition Tien Giang Provincial People’s Committee to grant a 5.000m2 land area to
construct more apartment buildings for workers with an investment of 100 billions VND.
* Saigon Paper JSC has put an apartment building into use for workers at My Xuan Commune, Tan
Thanh suburban district, Ba Ria - Vung Tau province. The stage 2 of the apartment building is about to
be implemented with a scale of 8 storeys.
th
* Morning of August 28 , 2008, the Ministry of Construction has signed a memorandom for the
cooperation in the field of welfare housing with Korean Ministry of Land-Traffic and Marine.
* Ha Noi Construction Investment JSC (Hancic) has finished 4/10 units of the 5-storey house which
belongs to the housing project for workers at Kim Chung Commune (Dong Anh).
* Construction and Import-Export JSC (Vinaconex) has transferred and put into use 4 blocks of houses
among the total 16 blocks of the housing project for the workers at Thang Long industrial zone.
* The housing area of 7,000 m2 (380 rooms) for 1,500 workers of Dong Quang Knit Limited Company at
Hai Son industrial cluster (Duc Hoa Ha commune, Duc Hoa suburban dist., Long An province) has just
been put into use. The total investment cost of this housing area is 20 billion VND. (02/10/2008)
* The 4-storey apartment building at cluster 5, ward 8, Vinh Long town that serves the cadres,
employees, professional serviceman and etc has been ratified by Vinh Long Provincial People's
Committee with a total investment of over 37 billion VND. (03/10/2008)

Real estate for the low income
VietRees
* Sai Gon – Gia Dinh Real Estate Company and Hoa Binh Phu Yen Company build Thoi An Apartment
Building in District 12 with 1,000 apartments.
* Construction Co. No.8 (CIC8) will invest in construction of 10,000 Keppel Land apartments & Tien
Phuoc Co. will build a resettlement area including 1,900 apartments at An Phu, Binh Khanh, District 2.
* HCM City People’s Committee will advance 50.5 billion to carry out the project of Vinh Loc B, Binh
Chanh residential area for resettlement with hundreds of townhouses and 40 apartment blocks.
* Construction Co. No.5 will invest in construction of 500 apartments at Ward 22, Binh Thanh District.
* HCM City Cooperative Alliance has developed its construction investment project of housing area at Le
Minh Xuan Commune, Binh Chanh Suburban District on a site of 67.49 hectares.
* 50% of the house reserve at The Splendor apartment area (Go Vap Dist.) will be intended to serve
resettlement demand in the district.
* Dat Lanh Co. will offer 1,500 apartments to the market with the prices of 500-700 millions VND/unit.
* People‘s Committee of HCMC has approved the project of the resettlement area on a site of 55.24
hectares at Dong Nam Cu Chi industrial - residential area in Cu Chi.
* House management of Dist.1 is assigned to construct the resettlement area at 7/4ª Kha Van Can, Thu
Duc district.
* In early 2010, Hai Thanh company will complete 352 apartments of Hai Thanh 1 resettlement area
project, Binh Tan District for the civil servants at Binh Tan District.
* People’s Committee of Binh Chanh has just cooperated with Hung Vuong university Investment &
Development JSC to construct resettlement area at Tan Kien commune, Binh Chanh suburban district.
* People’s Committee of HCM City has just licensed Cho Lon Real Estate JSC to invest in the
construction of the apartment buiding at No. 99 Ben Binh Dong, ward 11, district 8 in order to make the
house reserve at the social welfare housing program.
* People’s Committee of HCM City has promulgated the decision about reclaiming the land areas at
Phuoc Kien, Nhon Duc and Phuoc Loc communes, Nha Be suburban district for the construction of the
resettlement area in order to serve the project of Nhon Duc - Phuoc Kien new urban area.
* The HCM City Union of Housing Co-operatives has prepared to commence the construction of Thanh
Loc apartment building with 238 apartments on a site of 6.600 m2 in District 12. The Union intends to
construct another apartment building with over 200 apartments at Truong Tho ward, Thu Duc district.
* HCMC People’s Committee has ratified the planning of Binh Khanh residential area (Dist.2) which is
built on a site of 384,019 m2 to serve the resettlement of the locals in Thu Thiem new urban area.
* Dat Lanh has cooperated with Truong Son Vanguard Youth General Squad to build apartments for low-
income people at Dist.12
* Go Vap People’s Committee and Go Vap Public Benefit Service Co. have bought back the house
reserve belonging to Phu Gia Hung high-end apartments, Duong Quang Ham Street, Ward 15, Go Vap
Dist. and Dong Hung Thuan 1, 2 apartment buildings, Dist. 12 to serve the resettlement of the locals at
Tham Luong project - Ben Cat - Nuoc Len ditch.
* Approximately 184,000 apartments belonging to the investment program in the construction of the
social welfare houses in the stage of 2009 – 2015 with the total investment of about 49,000 billion VND
have been submitted to the government for approval. (30/09/2008)
* 800 social welfare houses for lease - lease to purchase will be built at 19A and 21A plots, Viet Hung
urban area in 2009, which have been ratified by The People’s Committee of Ha Noi City. (16/10/2008)

Dwellings for overseas Vietnamese The Committee for overseas Vietnamese in HCMC has showed that there have been 130 overseas
Vietnamese buying houses, mainly in HCMC.
and foreigners
Those who brought houses are those who come back to the country for their long term and direct
VietRees investment, scientists, culture researchers invited to come back to the country to become experts and
repatriating overseas Vietnamese. To buy houses, beside documents verifying priority subjects, the buyer
must present their passport (issued in Vietnam). In the case that house buyers bring foreign passports,
they must have certificates of Vietnamese nationality or documents confirming their losing Vietnamese
nationality, or certificate of citizenship registration.
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Hanoi: New regulations on The People’s Committee of Hanoi city has officially announced the rent of the state-owned houses that
have not yet been built and renovated in Hanoi on October 14th, 2008.
the rent of the state-owned
houses Accordingly, the rental prices of villas that belong to type I, II, III, IV are 11,300; 13,500; 15,800 and
24,800 VND/m2/month respectively. The rental prices of the normal houses at the grades of I, II, III, IV
Tuoi Tre – 14 Oct, 2008 are 6,800; 6,300; 6,100 and 4,100 VND/m2/month correspondingly.
The rental price for houses have also been adjusted following the K coefficient including the region (K1),
the number of stories (K3) and the technical condition (K4). However, only 4 districts including Hoan
Kiem, Ba Dinh, Dong Da, Hai Ba Trung do not see any price adjustments, whereas the rental prices of
the other areas have been adjusted on the downward trend. As for the K3 (the number of stories), the
rent of the houses at the third storey are equal to the rental price list and the houses on the first and
second stories have increased according to the K coefficients of 0.15 and 0.05. The rents of the higher
stories have been reduced.
The formula that determines the house rent is: the rent = (standard price as stipulated) x (K coefficient) x
(the usable area corresponding to the rent).
In addition, the People's Committee of the city has also concretely stipulated the cases of receiving the
exemption from or the reduction in the house rent.

The Central Steering Committee The Prime Minister has made a decision to change the name “The Central Steering Committee on
dwellings policy” into “The Central Steering Committee on dwelling policy and real estate market”. In
on dwellings renamed addition, the committe has also added some functions, missions and powers during its operation.
Vneconomy – 17 Oct, 2008 The Steering Committee is responsible for helping the Prime Minister to research, guide and coordinate
in order to solve the crucial and interdisciplinary problems relevant to the real estate market; unifying the
implementation of real estate business laws and the policies relevant to the development and
management of the real estate market on the whole country.
The board is also responsible for researching, periodically summarising and assessing the real estate
market situation to learn from the experiences, propose the amendments and supplement to the
mechanism and policies relevant to the real estate market in accordance with the socio - economic
development situation of the country.
In addition, the Steering Committee is responsible for providing guidelines on the management and
operation of the real estate market activities of the Steering Committees of centrally-controlled
municipalities. Meanwhile, it checks the implementation of the mechanism and policies towards the real
estate market of the ministries, departments and localities.

Real estate brokers not need
qualifications
Nguoi Lao Dong – 17 Oct, 2008
Ministry of Construction has promulgated the documents to guide some Departments of Construction
about granting certificates of real estate brokerage and assessment.
Accordingly, considering granting certificate of real estate brokerage to individuals does not depend on
their education level. Regarding the jobs of real estate assessment, certificates of real estate
assessment only need to be granted to the individuals of at least intermediate levels.
The laws on real estate business do not regulate the valid duration of real estate brokerage &
assessment.

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REAL ESTATE MARKET FORECAST

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General trends on HCM market
In general, the situation of real estate transactions in August is slowler than July due to the psychology
of keeping off buying houses in lunar July. However, selling prices have come back to the uptrend.
Customers have more and more options to buy the properties whose prices are getting closer to their
real values.
According to the surveys of VietRees at the brokerage centers and transaction centers in HCMC, most
of them have had only fews customers in HCMC. However, the prices of the real estate advertised for
sale have levelled off or seen a slight decrease of 2 - 5% as compared with the last month. This reason
of this price increase has been explained that construction materials prices in the past period have gone
up dramatically, inflation has risen, the actual incomes of the people have dropped and most importantly,
the sellers have been expecting the recovery of the market; as a result; the prices have become higher.
Increasing prices have been recorded at the projects in good locations and ensure the progresses of the
construction (the investors are continuing construction) and especially at the projects in which the
houses are about to be handed over or the infrastructures have been somewhat completed and the
construction speed is prompt.

Apartment market The sale and purchase of apartments or house on an installment plan in August, 2008 has drawn
interest from the buyers with real demands. Due to the fact that the banks have tightened real estate
loans, many investors have flexibly implemented the way of selling houses on installment plans for many
years to raise the capital for their projects.
According to the recent market surveys of VietRees, in addition to the previous factors such as location,
prices and convenient traffic; payment method and the money to pay in the first installment when
purchasing project houses are also drawing a lot of interest from buyers.
The apartments with small areas of 50 - 80 m2 and the value of below 600 - 800 million VND are seeing
a sign of decreasing attraction. The reason is that the supply is significantly increasing while the inflation
and the bank interest rates are rising sharply, therefore, the rent is not as high as the bank interest.
Tenants now have more options than before. As a result, many apartments are left vacant because there
is no tenant.

The market of project land plots
Similarly to July, on the whole, land prices have seen no decline and in some cases increased. The
sellers think that the situation has become less difficult and they will not accept any more loss.
Therefore, they will not try to sell properties at all costs like before. Land prices of some projects located
in Nha Be, Dist.2, Dist.7 have risen by 0.5 to 2 million VND/m2. Transactions have appeared on the
market although they are much less than in the beginning of the year.

CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL MARKET

Prices and consumption of According to some construction material stores, at this time of the previous years, until now this market
has still seen no movement as compared with a couple of years ago. Not only the prices of the essential
construction materials going commodities such as steel and cement have decreased significantly but also the consumption has
down more dropped by 30% - 60% as compared with 3 months ago.
Edited by VietRees In HCMC, currently, the retail prices of steel have been only 14 - 14.5 million VND/ton, decreasing 1-1.2
million VND/ton as compared with the middle of September. The retail prices of cement have been only
68,000 - 72,000 VND/sack, decreasing by 1,000 - 2,000 VND/sack as compared with August. In Hanoi,
the prices of construction steel have ranged from 14.8 - 15.5 million VND/ton. Types of corrugated iron
have gone down to 76,000 VND/m2. The retail prices of PCB40 cement on the market are declining and
range from 0.85 – 11 million VND/ton. Only commodities such as brick, sand and gravel have decreased
by 10% - 25% on the whole country as compared with 2 months ago.
The plummeting consumption and the large inventory of steel have made the producers and enterprises
obliged to reduce the selling prices and even they have to suffer losses to pay the interests, bank loans,
debts to the partners and expenses that have made steel prices go down more and more.
According to the enterprises and agents of construction materials , this market will be gloomy until the
end of this year when the “stormy season” passes by and the real estate market becomes eventful.

STOCK MARKET
Two bourses happen contrariwise, The fact of U.S stock market increasing fairly
significantly in the ending session at the dawn of 17 Nov
the market still sees many risks (Vietnam time) & the information about the petrol prices
Edited by VietRees being reduced have not yet been able to to encourage
the investors to join the market more drastically.
Chart source: Vietstock
Opening the session this morning, VN-Index has slightly
Up to date: 17 Oct, 2008 increased by 1.16 points (or 0.3%), adding 385.77 points
with the trading volume of over 3.5 million units. Only
some minutes later when entering the consecutive order
matching phase, the red color has flooded the electronic
board with a high volume of selling orders, quickly dragging the market index down to 838.65 points,
dropping by 0.96%. Ending the session, Vn-Index has closed at 382.52 points after losing 2.1 points (or
0.54%). Over 11.6 million shares and fund certificates (fund stocks) have been traded sucessfully with
the value of 365.117 billion VND (a decrease of over 10% in volume and 5% in value).
After one trading week with 3 downward sessions and 2 upward session, VN-Index has still increased by
3.45 points (or 0.91%) against the last week.
Contrary to HOSE, HaSTC-Index today has reversed the direction to increase by 1.04 points (or 0.84%)
& close at 125.32 points. The total trading volume of the whole market on HaSTC has reached over 6.1
million shares, worth nearly 125.32 points. Ending one trading week, HaSTC has had 2 downward
sessions & 3 upward sessions, increasing by a total of 5.45 points against the sessions of 10 Nov, 2008.

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