Infrastructure projects set to “activate” real estate market

A series of strategic infrastructure projects are simultaneously entering the completion phase, while newly launched inter-regional bridge projects are also underway, promising to “activate” the province's real estate market.

Workers constructing a real estate project in Long Hung ward, Dong Nai province. Photo: Hoang Loc

The implementation of real estate projects in line with approved planning, in parallel with infrastructure development, is the foundation for the market to enter a new growth cycle in a safe, healthy, and sustainable manner.

Several strategic infrastructure projects near completion, others break ground

By the end of 2025, the province’s infrastructure system had shown significant progress. Long Thanh International Airport, the largest aviation infrastructure project in the country, officially welcomed its first flights. Major transport arteries such as Ring Road 3 in Ho Chi Minh City, which runs through Dong Nai, and the Bien Hoa – Vung Tau Expressway were essentially completed, ready to enable seamless connectivity among localities across the region.

Notably, in the very first days of 2026, Cat Lai Bridge and Dong Nai 2 Bridge were launched, while Phu My 2 Bridge broke ground. Many other projects are also being studied and prepared for construction this year or next, such as Ring Road 4 in Ho Chi Minh City and the extension of the Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien metro line to the new Dong Nai Provincial Political and Administrative Center and Long Thanh Airport.

These works and projects are of special importance in completing the inter-regional transport network, strengthening connectivity between Dong Nai and Ho Chi Minh City, and at the same time expanding new development space for each locality.

In recent times, the province's real estate market has shown many positive signs. Several projects have restarted after legal obstacles were resolved. Other projects, boosted by recent developments in transport infrastructure, are also seeing investors accelerate the completion of legal procedures for implementation. In addition, following successful land auctions, winning bidders are urgently carrying out the necessary procedures to begin housing and new urban area projects soon.

A representative of Novaland Group, the developer of the Aqua City project in Long Hung ward, stated that experience in developing satellite cities shows the groundbreaking phase of inter-regional infrastructure projects is often the “trigger point” for a new real estate growth cycle. Dong Nai’s recent launch of several projects, including the Dong Nai 2 Bridge, is seen as a key step toward completing the missing link in Ho Chi Minh City's eastern transport network. Once the bridge connects directly with Ring Road 3, National Highway 51, and existing expressways, it will form a continuous traffic axis, helping to ease pressure on current national highways while expanding development space along the Dong Nai River waterfront.

According to Novaland’s analysis, when Long Thanh Airport comes into operation, together with the expansion of the Ho Chi Minh City – Long Thanh – Dau Giay Expressway, the completion of the Bien Hoa – Vung Tau Expressway, Ring Road 3, and connecting routes such as Huong Lo 2 Road and the Suoi Tien – Long Thanh metro line, Southern Dong Nai will form a new development corridor, closely linking urban areas, industry, services and logistics.

Safe and sustainable development

The real estate market in Dong Nai and nationwide has experienced several periods of overheating followed by stagnation, even freezing. Therefore, the current issue is not only how to achieve growth, but how to ensure that growth is safe, healthy, and sustainable.

Truong Thi Thanh Thao, Business Director of Tan Van Real Estate Corporation, an investor in a real estate project in Bien Hoa ward, said that since late 2025, Dong Nai has attracted intense attention from real estate investors thanks to the gradually improving transport infrastructure and the continuously rising FDI inflows. The combined effects of improved transport, increased investment attraction, and airport operations will push up real housing demand, improve liquidity, and thereby enable the real estate market to develop in a sustainable direction.

Controlling project development in line with planning and ensuring a harmonious alignment between infrastructure, services, and actual demand are key to fostering a safe, healthy, and sustainable real estate market.

In addition to vigorous activity in the commercial segment, Dong Nai’s real estate market has also seen a notable highlight in the social housing sector. Over the past year, the province completed more than 4,600 social housing units, the highest figure in the past decade, reaching 112 percent of the target assigned by the Government. In 2026, the province aims to complete over 8,000 units.

Dang Thi Kim Oanh, Chairwoman and General Director of Kim Oanh Group, assessed that Dong Nai is a market with strong potential thanks to rapidly developing infrastructure and high real housing demand. In 2025, the company broke ground on four social housing projects totaling around 7,500 apartments, helping ease the “housing shortage” for workers and supporting the Government’s goal of completing 1 million social housing units. In the commercial housing segment, the company has invested in and continues to distribute numerous projects across the province.

Dong Nai is currently completing key transport infrastructure corridors while also developing and adjusting urban and zoning plans. When these plans are implemented in a synchronized manner and Long Thanh Airport enters stable operation, the population in the southern part of the province is expected to rise significantly. This occasion will be the right time for the real estate market to enter a new growth cycle.

By Hoang Loc – Translated by M.Nguyet, Minho