Seventeen existing and new projects made a total of 9,550 apartments available in the real estate market of Ho Chi Minh City in the third quarter of this year, announced Savills Vietnam, the largest property company in the country, at a press conference on October 7. Of the figure, 5,220 units were sold, up 4 percent compared to the second quarter, with Districts 2, 7 and Binh Thanh accounting for 57 percent of the transactions.