One more city! "Buy a house and get a hukou" is coming, who is the next city?

Western cities

2024-05-11 18:48Posted in Sichuan Finance and Economics Creator

Text丨 Western Jun

Recently, Chengdu, Xi'an, Hangzhou and many other mega and mega cities have completely canceled the property market purchase restrictions.

Among them, there is a common highlight: you can settle down when you buy a house. In other words, if you buy a house in these cities, you can really become a citizen of these cities in terms of household registration, not just own real estate.

Some say this is nothing new. Because in recent years, many provinces, including provincial capitals, have achieved zero threshold settlement. But in fact, there are still some megacities that have clear settlement requirements - even if you buy a house, it doesn't mean that you really become a citizen of the city.

For example, some have academic requirements, and some need to achieve corresponding points.

However, there are fewer and fewer cities that have the confidence to buy a house and not give away a hukou. The latest city to announce relaxation is Nanjing.

On May 11, Nanjing Municipality issued a notice on the issuance of the Notice on Matters Concerning the Settlement of Legal and Stable Domiciles.

One of the most critical points is to further relax the conditions for settlement, so that non-Nanjing household registration personnel who have a legal and stable residence in the city and actually reside in the city can directly apply for settlement.

So far, there is one more megacity where you can buy a house and get a hukou.

There is no doubt that this is a new weather vane, which means that the threshold for settlement in megacities, which are the top of the "pyramid", is also getting lower and lower, and is opening up to more people.

This also means that the "grabbing" model of each city has been updated again. In the past few years, cities have "grabbed people", especially some central cities with strong economic strength and abundant public resources, generally based on academic qualifications, that is, competing for "talents".

But now, as long as you have the strength to buy a house, no matter what your academic background is, whether you have a formal job or not, you can settle down.

Of course, there are not many such cities in the first place.

As early as 2021, almost half of the provinces in the country proposed to fully relax the restrictions on household registration. Among them, many provincial capitals such as Shijiazhuang, Kunming, Nanchang, Yinchuan, Fuzhou, Jinan, and Zhengzhou can also settle down with "zero threshold".

However, some provinces still retain the "exception". For example, Shenzhen and Guangzhou in Guangdong; Nanjing and Suzhou in Jiangsu; Hangzhou, Zhejiang, etc. They all have an important characteristic: they have a large population, strong population attraction, and belong to a super large city, so it can be said that there is no one to go.

But now, even Hangzhou and Nanjing have put down their bodies and sent hukou to buyers, and there are actually only five cities left - Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Tianjin.

Why these five cities, the reasons are not complicated. The first four are all first-tier cities, which have outstanding advantages in terms of employment opportunities, medical care, and educational resources (Shenzhen is an exception). It can also be said that they have the strength to siphon the whole country.

Tianjin, on the other hand, is not a one-time city, but its educational resources are outstanding. Many people hope that their children can make it easier to get into college, and they are willing to buy a house and settle down. Therefore, in terms of household registration threshold, Tianjin has always been equivalent to the standard of a modern city.

However, objectively speaking, Tianjin's "persistence" may not be able to continue for a long time. First-tier cities are also likely to be further relaxed. After all, the landscape is changing.

For example, the permanent population of the four major first-tier cities all experienced a decrease in 2022, and only slightly recovered last year. The "high threshold" criteria for settlement, which is designed to limit rapid population growth, are becoming increasingly anachronistic – even in first-tier cities.

In addition, it should be noted that regarding the threshold for settlement, the residents of the past cities themselves have a very obvious "arrogance", believing that if the threshold for settlement is lowered, it may dilute the city's resources and even threaten their "citizen interests".

But now, with the change in the property market, this mentality is also clearly changing.

For example, this message is very representative:

This fully shows that this time and that time. Many things that used to seem unbreakable have really changed. It also includes the human heart.

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