The Vietnam Institute of Real Estate Studies (VIRES) has said that investors in the country’s north are increasingly interested in the southern real estate market. They view the southern market as a “promised land”, especially Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces. Recent large-scale projects developed by reputable investors and rising interest in general, especially from customers in the north, have boosted the real estate market in some southern provinces.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said that food supplies are relatively abundant in Vietnam’s south but consumption has fallen due to social distancing measures being introduced, with some agricultural products now exceeding demand.