三四百万按揭买套房
“buying a house with a mortgage of 3 to 4 million”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你像他这个年龄
“At his age,”
三四百万按揭买套房
“buying a house with a mortgage of 3 to 4 million”
挺正常的呀
“is quite normal.”
“Carrying millions in debt for an apartment is just standard reality for someone his age.”
Buying residential property in modern tier-1 or tier-2 Chinese cities requires multi-million RMB mortgages, which society views as an essential rite of passage for marriage and adulthood.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
mortgage / to buy with a bank loan
Loanword from Cantonese widely used across mainland China specifically for real estate mortgages.
three to four million (yuan)
Common approximate numerical expression used when discussing urban property prices.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You can already buy a place in full?”
“Money was tight, renting one slightly bigger place.”
“I plan to sell it for 43 million”
“The loan got approved! We have the money to build now!”
“is enough to cover another month of my mortgage.”
“but it should still sell for two or three million. The housing market isn't great right now.”