Making up over 60 % of all the nation's assets, the real estate market is a gauge of Taiwan's overall economic wellbeing. In 2001, Taiwan faced a rare bout of negative economic growth and the bottom fell out of the real estate market.
佔全國資產百分之六十以上的房地產，是國家整體經濟情況的具體反映，二○○一年，台灣出現了罕見的經濟負成長，同年的房地產業來到谷底。