Wealth Awakening
The Home-Buying Myth Is Crumbling: 3 Datasets Expose the Wealth Trap for the Under-40 Crowd
You saved for three years to scrape together a down payment and walked out of the closing room thinking you finally did the adult thing. But with Taipei's price-to-income ratio near 15x, more than 70% of Taiwanese households' net worth locked in real estate, and a total fertility rate that has collapsed to 0.87, what was once called "the safest investment" is quietly turning into a 30-year fragility you signed without reading.