[르포] “I wondered why outsiders came at the end of last year”… Gimpo Gochon, driven by the anticipation of the new city

Enter 2021.03.27 06:00

“At the end of last year, there was a sudden increase in the number of outsiders who wanted to buy the land. There was nothing to do here other than farming in the Green Belt, which was also located in the third new town. .”

An official from an authorized brokerage company A, Gochon-eup, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, visited on the 24th said, “I remember many buyers who seemed too young to buy farmland for returning farms or weekend farms,” ​​he said.

Gimpo Gochon is a region that the government is expected to announce in April as a candidate for the’second new residential site’. It is a’prepared new city site’ with a transportation network in a location facing Gangseo-gu, and it was also on the water when the 3rd new city was designated in 2018.

The Gimpo Han River, which runs through Gochon-eup, leads directly to Olympic-daero, allowing commuting in the Gangnam area. It is also close to the Metropolitan Area 1 Beltway Expressway, so it is a location where you can go to and from Incheon and Gyeonggi-do.

As for public transportation, Gochon Station on the Gimpo Gold Line has been in operation since 2019, and it is Gimpo Airport Station, where you can transfer to subway lines 5 and 9 and the Airport Railroad in just one stop. In addition, the construction of the Han River Line (extension of line 5) is also being promoted. In fact, it is like a living area in Seoul.

Park Hap-soo, senior real estate expert at KB Kookmin Bank, said, “Gimpo Gochon and Goyang Hwajeon are the most likely areas to be additionally designated as the 3rd new towns.” said.

Gochon-eup was an area that could not properly utilize its good location as most of its area was enclosed in a development-restricted area. There are only apartment complexes in Singok-ri, near Gochon Station, and the placenta is made up of rice fields in Punggok-ri and Tae-ri.

It was from the end of last year that the deal suddenly exploded and land prices began to rise. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s actual transaction price disclosure system, the land transaction volume in Gochon-eup, which averaged only 28 monthly transactions from January to November last year, soared to 162 cases in December.

An official from a nearby B-accredited brokerage said, “Up to a few months ago, the price per pyeong was about 800,000 won per pyeong (3.3㎡), but recently it has traded over 1 million won per pyeong.” Because it is a position, even if there is a purchase inquiry, the transaction was cut off because there was no sale.”

Farmers carrying hoes in preparation for the coming spring were spotted in the farmland around Gochon-eup. The resident mother-in-law (72) said, “If it is designated as a new city, the price of the land will increase a little, but will you be happy to enter a new apartment because you are all old?” Said.

A number of farmlands that appeared to have been neglected for a long period of time were also found. In a farmland in Tae-ri, Gochon-eup, adjacent to Gimpo-daero, only the marks of the forkrain remained clear instead of the crops. According to a certified copy of the register, in October last year, two people in their 30s living in Guro-gu, Seoul, bought the land. The trading price is estimated at 360 million won, which is about 1 million won per 3.3 square meter, and more than half of it is estimated to have been covered by bank loans.

There were also signs of’split the stake’. At the end of December of last year, a blank paper in Pungmurri, Gochon-eup, was sold to three people, each with a different address. They acquired a lot of 3,600m2 or so by dividing it into 1,000m2 per person, and it seemed that the purchase money worth 800 million won was each owed to each person.

Dongguk University adjunct professor Ko Jun-seok said, “Purchasing 1,000 square meters of blank paper tied with a green belt means that you have done’split the stake’ in anticipation of development or knowing in advance information.” It becomes a land of gold,” he said.

Gimpo is regarded as the region with the steepest increase in house prices in recent years. According to KB Kookmin Bank, the sale price of apartments in Gimpo rose 19.77% over the past year, which is the number one in the metropolitan area. The 84㎡ exclusive area for’Hill Stay Triversity’ in Gochon-eup, which was sold for about 400 million won, was traded at 7226.2 million won in November. The current price is over 1 billion won.

Earlier this month, it was revealed that employees of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) made a land speculation on the planned site of the Gwangmyeong Siheung New City using prior information, and public consensus is intensifying. In addition to Gimpo’s Gochon, Goyang Hwajeon and Hanam Gambuk, which are mentioned as new residential sites, are being caught in a number of’prior land speculation’ situations. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport plans to push ahead with the announcement of additional new housing sites in April.