In the early 1980s, interest rates on home loans were at 10 %. Expecting the NT Dollar to appreciate, speculative money from abroad flooded into Taiwan's real estate market, driving up prices and planting the seeds for their later collapse.
在一九八○年代初期，房貸利率高達 10 %，在台幣升值的預期心理下，大量的國際投資熱錢湧入房市，促成房價狂飆，也埋下日後崩跌的遠因。