Beijing proposed a new regulation to supervise long-term rental apartments, and responded freely: positive response and firm support

On August 24, the Beijing Municipal Housing and Construction Commission drafted the Beijing Municipal Housing Rental Regulations (Draft for Comment), which solicited public opinions, and regulated hot issues such as long-term rental apartment supervision, rental loans, online housing listings, and group rentals. This is the first local version of the housing rental regulations to be published after the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's public housing rental regulations.

Nandu reporter noted that the upcoming Beijing Municipal Housing Rental Regulations make provisions for housing rental enterprises, and the Draft Regulations stipulate that housing rental enterprises can provide sublease services, while real estate brokerage agencies are not allowed to provide sublease services, and the amount of rent loans shall not exceed the amount of the lease contract, and the deposit and remaining rent should be returned within 3 days after check-out. How will these new rules affect the free-flow model? Recently, the relevant person in charge of The Ease responded to this.

Freedom: it is a housing rental enterprise, and there is an essential difference between the intermediary

"Ziru belongs to the housing rental enterprise, can engage in sublease business", the relevant person in charge of Ziru introduced to reporters, Ziru is not a real estate brokerage agency, but a housing rental enterprise, in line with the "Regulations" draft for comments, can engage in subleasing business.

The relevant person in charge said that the whole chain of housing leasing business covered by Ziru has an essential difference from that of real estate intermediaries. According to reports, the service is divided into quality management team, core home service team and cloud service team, providing a full-life cycle service experience of a house from "owner hosting to tenant renting".

Liu Qiushi, deputy general manager of the Ziru Service Growth Center, said that in the past 10 years, Ziru has served 4 million Ziru customers and 500,000 owners, and completed a total of 62 million services, including 6.4 million deliveries of internal service work orders, 11 million responses to customer service, and 45 million deliveries of home service orders.

Ease: In 2016, the deposit was refunded on 3 days

The Beijing Municipal Housing Rental Regulations (Draft for Comment), released on August 24, stipulate that after the expiration of the housing lease contract, the housing rental enterprise should refund the deposit and the remaining deposit within 3 working days.

For this new regulation, Liu Qiushi, deputy general manager of the Service Quality Management Center, said that ziru had achieved a refund of the deposit within 3 days in 2016. "In 2015, the refund time of the free lease refund deposit was 14 working days, and in 2016, we optimized it and realized that the external lease refund deposit was 3 working days." Liu Qiushi said that after 16 years of freely realizing the return of the lease deposit for 3 working days, the reputation of the free house has improved significantly.

Freedom: Get things done ahead of the curve and firmly support a positive response to the new rules

Nandu reporter noted that the "Beijing Municipal Housing Rental Regulations (Draft for Comments)" also makes provisions on rent loans and deposit supervision accounts. It stipulates that financial institutions shall issue rental loans on the basis of the housing lease contract on the record, and the loan amount shall not be higher than the amount of the housing lease contract; the amount of the deposit charged by the housing rental enterprise to the lessee shall not exceed 1 month's rent, and shall be held in escrow through a third-party special account in accordance with the regulations.

In this regard, Liu Qiushi said that the proportion of free rental loans has been far below the 30% required by government departments, and in March this year, Beijing Freely established a special custody account through the Beijing Real Estate Intermediary Industry Association, becoming one of the first enterprises to be included in the deposit supervision.

CMO Xiong Yun said that the Regulations are conducive to guiding the long-term and stable development of the industry, maintaining a clear housing rental market environment, further protecting the legitimate interests of landlords and tenants, and also conducive to the steady operation of the enterprise itself. "We will actively respond to the call of the policy and connect with relevant departments in terms of compliance operation, credit construction, operation management, etc., to maintain the healthy development of the industry."

Nandu trainee reporter Ding Jingxuan was sent from Beijing