Taipei City Guide

Taipei is Taiwan's political, financial, and technology capital, the seat of government and the headquarters base for the island's world-leading semiconductor and electronics supply chain. The city's most prestigious addresses cluster in Xinyi - home to Taipei 101, the central business district, and luxury towers commanding NT$900,000 to NT$1.1 million per ping - and in adjacent Daan and Songshan, Taipei's most densely populated and sought-after residential districts. For investors, the defining feature of the Taipei market is its combination of very high prices and exceptionally low yields: gross rental yields ranged from just 1.66% to 2.13% across the city in Q4 2025, averaging around 1.93%, placing Taipei alongside Monaco among the lowest-yielding markets globally. The market has also cooled. House prices in Taipei City slipped 0.62% year-on-year in Q4 2025 - the capital's first annual decline since early 2020 - while island-wide transactions plunged 25.5% in 2025 to a nine-year low, driven by the central bank's selective credit controls and tighter mortgage rules. Taipei remains a wealth-preservation and prestige market for buyers prioritising a stable rule-of-law jurisdiction, deep liquidity, and proximity to the global tech economy, rather than rental income, with more affordable proximity plays available across the river in New Taipei City.