Article: VIETNAM DESIGNS PLAN TO CONTROL CHAOTIC PROPERTY MARKET.

HANOI, March 5 Asia Pulse - A comprehensive plan designed to stabilise the country's largely unregulated property market will be submitted to the Prime Minister by June.

Minister of Construction Nguyen Hong Quan said a weak legal framework was the major cause for the poorly-managed market.

Economists said if the market was better managed, some US$5 trillion could be collected for the State from land transfers.

Eighty per cent of property trading is done illegally, or on the so-called underground market, a Ministry of Construction official said.

In developed countries, sales of land and houses accounts for 20 to 30 per cent of a ...

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