The government's new luxury bill, which mainly aims to curb the rising property prices, will not be implemented until at least next July, but its impact is already felt. According to real estate websites, prices are dropping for high-end second hand housing, and in some cases, even by 40%.

On real estate website, even the most famous DiBao luxury condos are up for sale at a lowered price, a drop of NT$1.2 million to be exact, even before the governments implementation of the luxury tax that is to go into effect in July at the earliest.

The tax will for sure influence real estate prices on pre-owned homes and those who are real estate investors.

It also is affecting those brand new house units and people looking into buying new condos and houses.

Real estate agents are reserved about the effects of luxury tax on their industry, while more luxury buildings are still going up.

The tax can be as high as 15%, take a NT$ 10 million condo for example, the tax would be NT$ 1.5 million more.

But since there is usually a 15% room for bargaining, the effect of luxury tax is still unknown and hard to predict so far.