Last year, it was found that the ‘three Gangnam districts’ of Seoul, including Gangnam, Seocho, and Songpa-gu, borne about one-third of the comprehensive real estate tax for housing nationwide. The increase in comprehensive real estate tax payments in Seongdong-gu, Seoul and Seongnam and Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, was also notable. According to the National Tax Service's National Tax Statistics Portal on the 12th, the national comprehensive real estate tax for housing last year was calculated to be 1.3089 trillion won. Among these, the determined tax amount in Gangnam’s 3 districts was 430 billion won, accounting for 32.9% of the total. The proportion of the Gangnam 3 districts in the national housing comprehensive real estate tax decreased from 39.5% in 2020 to 27.8% in 2021 and 25.6% in 2022, but then rose for three consecutive years and exceeded 30% again last year. The comprehensive real estate tax for housing in the 3 districts of Gangnam increased by 35.2% from KRW 318.1 billion in 2024 to KRW 430 billion last year. This is significantly higher than the national growth rate of 20.4% during the same period. This can be interpreted as the result of a noticeable increase in housing prices, mainly for high-priced houses in the Gangnam area. The comprehensive real estate tax for all housing in Seoul increased by 30.1% from 569.8 billion won to 741.1 billion won. By autonomous district