The Central Bank's efforts to suppress housing prices are showing signs of effectiveness, as the average closing price of Taipei's high end real estates in July dropped from the previous month by 1.7%, reversing the upward trend for the first time this year.

According to real estate agents, the high-end real estate market shrunk in May and June of this year, more than 35%.

While the number of those real estate sold in July is about the same as in June, the per ping price fell from NT$992,000 in June to NT$ 975,000 in July, which was a drop of 1.7%, the first time for the market to drop this year, which could be the result of the Taiwans Central Bank of China policies to lower the real estate prices.

With the market shrinking, the demand from potential buyers also decreased, especially in July for those left messages online showed less interest in buying.

Real estate agent is expecting the situation to last a bit longer; especially the Sept 28th date would be a good indicating marker as the peak season of the market.

If the peak season is not doing well this year, then the market would not bounce back.