The property market is down, the supply of stock housing is oversupply, and many people's houses cannot be sold or rented, so they can only be empty, and they have to face the indispensable monthly property fees.
As a result, in recent years, the discussion on the "exemption from property fees" for vacant houses has become more and more intense, and the new regulations have been determined on this issue: vacant houses for more than half a year can apply for exemption or exemption of property fees! Is this true?
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How many vacant houses are there in the country?
There has been no official data on how many vacant houses there are in the country, but last year, He Keng, former deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics, said in a speech at the 2023 China Real Economy Conference that the number of vacant houses in China varies greatly from the estimates of various experts, and 1.4 billion people may not be able to live in them.
A little earlier, at the end of 2018, a report released by the China Household Finance Survey and Research Center of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics showed that the housing vacancy rate in China's urban areas was 21.4%, and the number of vacant commercial housing and other housing vacancies added together, and the overall number of vacant houses in China in 2018 may be at least 130 million.
Later, in 2019, at a forum, Pan Shiyi also mentioned that there are at least 130 million vacant houses in the country.
Moreover, from the current population structure of various places and the downward trend of housing prices in the past two years, it can be seen that the vacancy situation in third- and fourth-tier cities may be more prominent, and some communities have even handed over houses for several years, and the lighting rate is still less than 50%, which really causes a great waste of resources.
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Do you pay the strata fee for vacant houses?
There are currently two schools of thought as to whether vacant houses should pay strata fees:
Some people think that even if the house is vacant, they should pay the strata fee. After all, the basic services of the community have not stopped because the house is unoccupied, and garbage cleanup, greening maintenance, etc. are carried out as usual, so it is necessary to pay the property fee for vacant properties.
Others think that property fees should not be paid for vacant houses, because the quality of property services is poor, and the property management company only knows the charges and does not pay attention to the service.
Some people even said that over time, the property management company that originally served the owners has even become the "master" of the community, restricting the rights of the owners. For such a property, there should be no strata fee.
In fact, such a debate existed many years ago, and
In addition, the Civil Code also has a clear
However, it is worth mentioning that some places have issued blockbuster new regulations for the collection of property fees: houses that have been vacant for more than half a year can apply for exemption or exemption of property fees.
This place is Shandong, and in the published "Shandong Province Property Service Charge Management Measures", the local government has clarified the regulations on the collection of property fees for vacant houses
After the promulgation of this measure, it should be said that it is a good thing for families who have a house to live in for the time being, and it can save some costs.
However, at present, only Shandong has adopted this method, and before that, Jiangsu also charged 70% of the property fee for vacant houses, but a few years ago, the Jiangsu price department revised this method, and deleted the "provisions on the 70% charge of vacant house property fees" in the draft for comments.
It means that the 5-year vacant housing property reduction and exemption policy has ended. It should be said that this is also a follow-up measure taken by the local government to comply with the "housing not speculation".
Moreover, netizens also have different views on the measures taken to reduce or reduce property fees in individual areas.
Netizen @王者 said: If the whole community is vacant, then how should the property company survive?
Netizen @秋harvest 冬藏 said that there are many reasons why the house is not lived, not all of them are speculative tenants, for example, some people have to leave their houses empty for their children to go to school and rent a house near the school; some people leave their houses empty for the convenience of taking care of the elderly; and some go abroad for further study and rarely come back to live. Situations like these should not be considered as house speculation, it is normal to have one or two houses to change residences, so don't say that the house is empty at every turn.
So, do you think this new property fee regulation should be promoted elsewhere?
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