The policies, combined with unprecedented low interest rates and an assortment of low-interest home loan products offered by banks, pushed consumer home loan interest rates to historic lows. Following a year of negative growth in 2001, the real estate market began to rebound.
春江水暖鴨先知，政策做多，加上前所未有的低利環境，以及金融機構推出的種種低房貸商品，已將消費者購屋的利息成本降到最低，在度過經濟負成長的二○○一年後，房市也開始由谷底反彈。