Taiwan rents up 1.70% year on year in October 2026 as repairs cost more
Taiwan's rent sub-index rose 1.70% in the year to October while the dwelling repair cost index rose 3.59% and the housing group as a whole rose 2.07%.
The facts
- Taiwan's Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics released its October 2026 price indices at 4pm on 5 November 2026, putting the rent sub-index of the consumer price index at 111.39 points, +1.70% against October 2025 and 0.20% above September.
- Rent carries a weight of 148.67 per mille in the consumer price index, roughly two thirds of the 227.18 per mille weight of the whole housing group.
- The dwelling repair cost index rose faster than the rent sub-index: it reached 119.08 points, 3.59% above a year earlier.
- The housing group as a whole fell 0.97% against September, to 111.29 points, which the statistics office attributes to the end of the summer electricity tariff rate; against a year earlier the group was 2.07% higher.
- Headline consumer prices rose 0.06% on the month, 0.20% after seasonal adjustment and 2.33% against October 2025, with the core measure excluding fresh produce and energy up 2.23%.
- The release states its index base as Republic of China year 110, that is 2021, equals 100, with the weights built on the 2024 expenditure structure.
What it means for your money
- Rent rose 1.70% and dwelling repair costs 3.59%, both as consumer price lines. The release holds no landlord cost series.
- On Glopra's own calculation the gross yield in Taiwan is 1.50%: rent of 10.16 US dollars per square metre a month against 8,106 dollars per square metre of price. The 3.59% repair figure is an index change in Taiwan dollars, measured separately.
- If you already rent out a flat in Taiwan, headline inflation at 2.33% ran ahead of the 1.70% rent increase, so the same rent buys less than it did a year ago. Glopra separately records a flat 20% tax on rental income there.
What to watch
- The 0.97% monthly fall in the housing group is an electricity tariff effect, not a rent effect. The statistics office names the end of the summer rate as the cause, and rent itself rose.
- The November indices are scheduled for release on 8 December 2026 at 4pm.
- This release covers rent and housing costs only. It contains no house price, no land price and no property transaction figure of any kind.
Sources: DGBAS Taiwan https://www.stat.gov.tw/News_Content.aspx?n=3703&s=236836; DGBAS Taiwan https://ws.dgbas.gov.tw/001/Upload/463/relfile/10980/236836/newstotal11510.pdf