Ho Chi Minh City authorities have approved 17 commercial housing projects for sale to foreign individuals and organisations, in a move aimed at expanding regulated foreign access to the local real estate market.

Foreign investors registered a total of 21.5 billion USD in investments in Viet Nam during the first half of 2025, up 32.6% year-on-year, the Ministry of Finance's Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) revealed in its latest report.

Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Nguyen Thi Hong has underscored that credit governance must be prudent to help curb inflation and stabilise the macro-economy when responding to legislators’ concern about credit for real estate.