"The shared area is going to be canceled!"
During this year's "May Day", it was not the tourism bureau of a certain province that rushed to the hot search, but the Guangdong Zhaoqing Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau.
On May 1, the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province officially issued a notice: from now on, commercial housing in Zhaoqing City will be sold and promoted according to the area of the suite.
Is the shared area going to be cancelled? If this is true, it will be an unprecedented change in the property market.
In other words, since the "Measures for the Management of Commercial Housing Sales" came out in 2001, ordinary people have bought a strange term "public share".
I live in a 70-square-meter house and pay for 100 square meters. Elevator shafts, pipe shafts, stairwells, but all the area involving public facilities have to be paid for by the owner.
For more than 20 years, the shared area is a pain that every buyer is unable to refute, and now the Zhaoqing Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Guangdong Province is the first person to eat crabs.
If Zhaoqing really fired this first shot, will other provinces and cities do the same? Is the cancellation of the shared area a new routine for marketers, or is the property market about to usher in a new era?
Speaking of the great change of public sharing, we must talk about the "past and present life" of the housing shared area.
The concept of shared area was first developed in Hong Kong, and it was the innovation of a giant businessman.
It is said that in the 50s of the last century, Hong Kong bought a house on a per-floor basis, and the whole house was a complete property right, and there was no precedent for buying only one, so ordinary people only had to rent or live in shantytowns.
Later, someone came up with a way to meet the needs of ordinary people to buy a house: the house can be sold one by one, but a 30% down payment must be paid as a deposit, and the developer will use this advance payment to build a house.
The common area that appears after the house is divided and sold is shared by each owner, with a larger house area and a smaller house area.
By turning large property rights into small property rights, ordinary people can live in their own houses, but they also have to bear the corresponding shared costs.
In 1995, Hong Kong's policy of paying advance payments and sharing the system of buying houses was officially used as a reference by the mainland.
However, in 2013, Hong Kong introduced a new policy for residential buildings, and the "shared area" was completely abolished, and we still use this way of buying a house today.
In fact, the people who put forward the concept of shared area may indeed want to make the funds return quickly to meet the housing needs of ordinary people. But later, there were more and more hidden dangers of unfairness.
When the buyer signs the purchase contract with the sales department, he will be clearly informed that the house you are buying is composed of the area of the suite and the shared area.
But when you are confused and want to refute, the other party will explain that it is not that the smaller the pool, the more cost-effective the house.
On the contrary, reducing the common areas such as corridors, elevator halls, and corridors will affect the comfort of the house, and this part of the shared area also belongs to the owner's assets.
It seems reasonable, but in fact, in this way, the owner not only has to bear the construction cost of the shared area, but also bears the other costs incurred by the shared area.
For example, miscellaneous expenses such as heating fees, property fees, management fees, etc. And these trivialities add up to a lot of expenses.
I saw a landlord ridicule before: I worked hard to make money, but in the end I couldn't even afford a toilet.
This is not an exaggeration, the income level of ordinary people often does not match the housing prices. Despite their efforts to save money, it is still difficult to scrape together the down payment needed to buy a house in a short period of time.
The shared area is undoubtedly quite incomprehensible, especially in some high-rise buildings, and there are even cases where the shared area is as high as 30%.
I saw a very witty comment from a netizen: The roadside stall vendors are short of catties, and the real estate company will also be short of catties and taels in the shared area, anyway, they are all worried about the money in our pockets.
I have to say, you're such a talent.
But the fact is that a family is like this, and if you want to buy a house, you must bear this part of the shared area.
It is said that the shared area is also the assets and rights of the owner, but the income generated by the shared area has nothing to do with the owner.
For example, the advertising fees generated by the billboards in the public areas of the community are all the income of the property management company, and they are never distributed to the owners.
This is obviously an imbalance, and to put it seriously, it is exploiting loopholes.
In order to increase profits, some developers will also deliberately expand the shared area during surveying and mapping, and even count the parking spaces sold to the owners as the shared area and allocate them to the owners.
Everyone knows it's unfair, but they can't say why, and no one has officially tried to curb it. The relevant departments have nothing to do with themselves, and the owners can only say that they are suffering like dumb people eating coptis.
Regarding the public pool, buyers hate it.
The abolition of the shared area is also a commonplace topic, and every time the "two sessions" are held, some members take this matter as a bill. But years have passed, and the question has not been answered.
In 2002, Chongqing quarreled over the abolition of the shared area.
However, it is understood that up to now, whether it is commercial housing or second-hand housing for sale in Chongqing, they are all advertised and sold based on the construction area.
And when the buyer raises the key point of "the shared area is not transparent", the salesperson will also say that all the areas are recorded, and no one dares to calculate them randomly.
In this way, buyers will no longer ask questions.
Now, Zhaoqing has once again pushed this topic to the forefront. So, everyone wants to find out.
Netizens ridiculed: If the state really implements a new housing purchase mechanism, will those who buy houses in the previous way receive a refund?
But just as everyone was watching with joy, the truth of the matter gradually surfaced.
Many local real estate sales and real estate agents in Zhaoqing have indicated that they have not received a notice from the relevant authorities about the "cancellation of the shared area", and this policy has not caused much of a stir in Zhaoqing.
In fact, the Zhaoqing Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau only notified all real estate developers and real estate agents to clearly mark the price of the house to be sold, and ensure that the price marked is consistent with the actual area of the house.
The introduction of this policy is to prevent disputes between buyers and sellers on the issue of shared area.
In fact, this calculation method is not much different from the previous calculation method based on the floor area, and the total price of the house is very little affected.
In layman's terms, under the premise that the total price of the house remains the same, if it is sold according to the construction area, the unit price will be slightly lower, and if it is calculated according to the area of the suite, the unit price will also increase accordingly.
So in the final analysis, the Zhaoqing Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has not explicitly stated that it will cancel the shared area of housing.
This melon is really a bit lost, the shared area is already a deep-rooted rule in the real estate industry, and it seems that it is not easy to be banned.
Regarding this matter, real estate expert Zhao Xiuchi also had her remarks.
She said that there are relevant laws and regulations for the calculation of the shared area. The reason why it is not recognized by the common people is that it is very professional and cannot be mastered by non-professionals.
If we want to make the property market develop healthily and steadily, we must continue to use the method of calculating the shared area. In the final analysis, only by adjusting the property fee and heating can it be a real policy that benefits the people.
However, the new policy issued by the Zhaoqing Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development is exactly different from Zhao Xiuchi's statement.
For this policy, the purpose of the Zhaoqing Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development is not to let the people spend more money on the "invisible area".
The reason why the people are calling for the abolition of the shared area is that the way the construction area is calculated is incomprehensible, including the shared area, which is larger than the actual usable area.
Changing to sell and advertise by the area of the suite can better protect the rights and interests of consumers, and the area error will not exceed 3%.
Regarding this statement, Feng Bo, vice president of Chengdu Urban Construction and Development Research Institute, also agreed.
Dean Feng said that there is no special standard calculation method for the shared area, and it can be large or small to measure, and it is not transparent.
In addition, after moving in, in addition to paying the heating fee and property fee of their own home, the buyer must also bear the above expenses incurred by the shared part. The price of this series of fees is not low, not to mention, it is not reasonable.
But if you sell according to the size of the suite, it is much fairer and more transparent. Even if the unit price is slightly higher at the time of purchase, a series of costs incurred in the subsequent public area have nothing to do with the owner.
To put it simply, the property fee and heating fee of the shared part do not need to be paid by the owner every year.
Therefore, selling a house with the area of the suite is a long-term and compound interest method for buyers.
I saw some people on the Internet say that the calculation method of calculating the shared area in the construction area is beneficial to developers and sellers, and it is a burden to buyers.
However, in fact, it is very difficult to completely abolish the shared area. The official argument is that the conditions are not yet ripe and the resistance to implementation is too great.
After watching for a long time, in fact, "Zhaoqing City's commercial housing is promoted and sold according to the area of the suite" is not all a hot topic brought up by the media. At the very least, "the owner does not need to bear the cost of the shared area" has been put on the agenda.
This is also a good phenomenon, in the past, buyers spent 1 million to buy an off-plan house with a construction area of 100 square meters, and it may only be 80 square meters when the house is received, because you don't understand it yourself.
Now according to the area of the suite, the total price is still 1 million, but the owner knows from the beginning whether to buy 100 square meters or 80 square meters, and only needs to bear the cost of the actual use of the area.
Black cats and white cats catch mice are good cats, as long as it is really beneficial to the people, then this policy is feasible.
In fact, for ordinary home buyers, they are more concerned about the reasonableness of housing prices and their own ability to buy houses.
If the house price is too high and exceeds the ability to buy, it is in vain whether it is calculated according to the area of the apartment or the shared area.
As ordinary people, we must maintain an optimistic and rational attitude on the matter of "whether the shared area will be abolished", and follow the national policy and market risks.
Zhaoqing's shot also pointed out the general direction of the government's promotion of housing system reform, and released a signal that the government will adjust real estate sales.
In general, the policy of "selling and promoting commercial housing according to the area of the suite" will promote the transparency and fairness of the real estate market and protect the rights and interests of property owners, which is a bold and novel decision.
Nothing can be achieved overnight, let us pay attention to the new dynamics of the property market and look forward to a new chapter in the future of the property market.
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Resources:
China Industry Network "The Cancellation of Pooled Area is a Positive Response to the Voices of the People"
China Fund News "Abolition of Pooled Area? The latest article issued by one place》
The financial world's "A major turning point in real estate? Cancellation of shared area in Zhaoqing》
Poster News "The Impact of Abolishing Public Pooling on Real Estate"
Author: Mandarin Tail Blue