Among all 25 districts of Seoul last year, Gangnam-gu recorded the highest number of sales, ranging from small building transactions to large building deals and even land sales.
Silgeorae.com, a company that offers free direct transactions for commercial real estate and conducts actual transaction research, released statistics on actual commercial real estate transactions in Seoul in 2025, excluding collective properties such as apartments, multi-unit housing, officetels, and retail units. In terms of the number of building and structure sales transactions, Gangnam-gu ranked first with 254 deals (7 trillion won), followed by Jongno-gu in second place with 180 deals (3 trillion won). Nowon-gu ranked 24th among the 25 districts with 21 deals (75.6 billion won), and Dobong-gu ranked last with 10 deals (50.1 billion won).
Gangnam-gu also ranked first in land transactions. There were 118 deals totaling 1.7 trillion won, followed by Jongno-gu in second place with 114 deals (200 billion won), Yangcheon-gu in 24th place with 14 deals (140 billion won), and Dobong-gu in 25th place with 9 deals (35.2 billion won), according to the announcement.
Real estate expert Park Jongbok, head of Naheyo Academy, said that such a pattern is a set of statistics rarely seen in the Seoul metropolitan area or in the provinces.
He explained that the number of transactions often reflects many small-amount deals, but in the case of Gangnam-gu, the average sale price per property for small buildings, compact buildings, mid-sized buildings, and large buildings reaches as high as 27.6 billion won. For land in Gangnam-gu, the average transaction amount is around 14.5 billion won, and the fact that the largest number of properties were sold there serves as evidence that, even now, there are still regions of the real estate investment market in Korea where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
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