Taipei Presale Home Cancellations Reach 44 in Q3, Up 69.23% From a Year Earlier

In Q3 2026, a total of 23 presale projects in Taipei were filed for record, up 15% from Q2. The total number of units filed was 1,754, up 39.87% from the previous quarter. These projects were concentrated mainly in Zhongzheng, Zhongshan, Da'an, Songshan, Wanhua and Shilin districts, and the mainstream project type was small residential communities of 80 units or fewer.

MyHousing noted that 1,754 is the total number of units filed for record, not the actual number of units sold, and that an increase in new project supply cannot be read directly as a matching rise in sales volume.

In Q3, the Taipei City Department of Land Administration conducted on-site inspections of 11 presale projects, of which 2 had contract content involving violations. The department said that some project contracts had problems such as "required items omitted," "violations of required content," or "added clauses unfavorable to consumers."

The department said that the standard form sale contracts for residential presale projects reviewed in Q3 all had a performance guarantee mechanism, of which the "real estate development trust" was the most common, at 12 projects, or 54.55%.

The department reminds buyers to watch 5 contract clauses before signing: "deadline for notice of handover," "loan arrangements," "deadline for registration of ownership transfer of the property and land," "conditions for assignment or resale of the property and land," and "inspection and acceptance." Since the conditional contract substitution rules for presale homes took effect on July 1, 2023, Taipei has approved a cumulative total of 40 contract substitutions through Q3 2026, with the main reasons for applications being "serious injury or illness of the applicant or a family member" and "transfer by a co-buyer."