The difference in buying a house in the sming district is as great as in two cities, with an old house without an elevator or a degree, with a listing price of 35,000 squares, which may be lower, a building in the next room of almost the same age as an experimental primary school or a foreign language, with fifty twenty-five thousand to sell, where the data on shells are available, where the average price in the non-school district dropped between 40 and 50 per cent between the second half of 2024 and the first quarter of 2026, while the turnover in the main school district rose by 18 per cent and was sold on average for 28 days, not by chance but as a result of the market itself。
The island's land supply has changed considerably over the years, starting in 2023, when new residential land was pushed mainly to the five bays and the lake reservoirs, and by 2024, the average area of newly opened houses was 98 square metres, more than 80 per cent of which were delivered in refurbishment. The improvement buyers saw the old neighbourhoods without elevators or schools, and although they were located on the island, they did not live as comfortable as the new ones, so they simply left out. The term “intra-island scarcity”, which had been used before, is now being swept away by the new building and is largely irrelevant. Old regions without resources, financial attributes are lost and prices naturally return to the level they can afford。
The education chain has been so tense that in 2025 the city-wide population of primary school age decreased by 6. 2 per cent, but the number of students enrolled in primary schools, which are focused on two decades of secondary school, one secondary school and one foreign language school, fell by only 1. 4 per cent. Parents, who say that they are going to middle school after five years, do not rob the school district, and when policy changes take place, there is no real chance. After 80 and 90, parents buy a school block, not for investment, but for the sake of missing a window of schooling, even if the house is 20 years old and the wall is gone, and they are willing to accept it, as long as they are able to enter the school。
The policy has been advanced with the expansion of teacher rotation in 2025, which requires that at least 30 per cent of high-quality teachers move within the school district within three years, and the expansion of the multi-coach pilot from two streets to three blocks, but the parents are slow to react, still believing in the old logic of “stripping up to school rates”, after all, no one dares take risks with their children and gambles on whether the class teachers assigned to teach their grades as well as those of famous schools, so the short-term internal school premium is still loose。
However, it is important to remember that quanzhou and quanzhou next door are already a little small, and those hot-doored buildings that were once highly appreciated, because the new schools began to split up, the price of the house became a little bit shaky, the price of the premium was clearly falling, the gate was now stable, and it might not have to remain that way. If the education layout continued to tilt towards the new area outside the island for the next three years, the people who are now on the high board would have to recalculate。
On the other hand, the off-site market has become more viable, with a 37 per cent increase in second-hand house listings in the first quarter of 2026, an increase of 12. 8 per cent in the buying space, a rise of nearly five years, and a focus not only on prices, but also on heavy commuting hours, the level of property management and the installation of elevators in small areas. The owner mentioned that houses with elevators in the same section cost between 15 and 18 per cent more than those without them, and that a large number of people are willing to spend more to get up and down the stairs。
The purchasers are now divided into two groups, one considering whether the house is comfortable or not, the other calculating whether the child can go to a school at his/her counterpart, which slowly accepts the return of the house price, and the other paying more for certainty, both of which are correct and different goals。
One of the middleman's friends talked privately about how the most frequently asked questions had changed when he recently brought his client to see the house. He had always been concerned about how much the house would increase since then, but he now asked repeatedly whether the school would be able to adjust the layout next year。
The elevator renovation project in the old sector, which began last year on several streets in the sing ming district, has already used new elevators, but the funds for the renovation have to be raised by the owner himself. Some buildings have not been fully funded, and the construction has been delayed. The residents of the neighbourhood have seen the elevators installed in the next building。
The school room had a very high price, which did not mean that no one hesitated, with a mother staring at a 50,000-square house for three months and finally not buying it. She feared that the policy would get too fast, that the child would not catch up to the last bus. She then went to a new building in the complex, which had a nine-year-old school, at a price of thirty-two thousand, but had to be on the subway twice from her place of work, and she had been entangled for days without a decision。
The stock of new houses in the island is not very small, but it is the projects that have been built together, such as the kindergarten that was built on a building in september this year, which warms up immediately, while those that rely solely on future planning and promotions see a lot of people and have few deals, and the market did not shout slogans in may 2026, but simply splits。
