According to the current market condition, Lu Qingqing made a mental calculation, "From what Second Aunt said, it seems that for boys to get married, they need to prepare at least one million yuan, and the house has to be mortgaged, not fully paid off."
The housing prices in Pengcheng City are not exactly low.
The garden-style house Lu Qingqing had bought earlier for her brothers, fully paid for at seventy thousand yuan, is now worth three million, with an average price of fifteen thousand per square meter.
That's a sizable increase compared to a year ago.
Even older houses or new developments in more remote areas are priced close to ten thousand yuan per square meter.
For boys from families in good financial condition, it's not an issue. But under Second Aunt's dowry standards, for average rural boys, getting married might mean exhausting the entire family's savings and taking on debt, yet still being unable to afford it.
