On September 20, News (www.thepaper.cn) learned from the official WeChat account of the Shanghai Real Estate Brokers Association that the Shanghai Real Estate Brokers Association organized 12 large-scale housing leasing companies and real estate brokerage agencies on September 18 to develop the industry. Self-discipline and commitment activities, maintain the order of the housing rental market, and maintain the stability of the housing rental market.
It is reported that under the advocacy of the Shanghai Real Estate Brokers Association, it includes Ziru, Jianxin, Xiangyu, Tangchao, Rubik’s Cube, Lingyu, Anxin, and Xianmao. Representatives of 12 companies, including Lianjia, Zhongyuan, I Love My Home, and Pacific, signed the letter of commitment and issued initiatives to the entire industry.
Among them, the promises of the eight leasing companies include not driving up rent, not false propaganda, not deducting rent, not malicious competition, not compulsory service, and not arguing; 4 The content of the commitment of the domestic brokerage agency includes not driving up rent, not making false propaganda, not earning price difference, not concealing fraud, not participating in group rent, and not prevaricating. Among them, 8 leasing companies have made a clear commitment that they will not increase rents for listings before the end of this year.
September and October are the traditional peak seasons for housing rental. Tang Jun, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Real Estate Brokers Association, said that the association organizes industry self-discipline commitment activities with the theme of “maintaining the order of the housing rental market and maintaining the stability of the housing rental market” to guide more rental companies and real estate brokerage agencies to consciously maintain the rental market Stabilize, improve service quality, create a more standardized, transparent, and orderly housing leasing market environment for citizens, and jointly promote the stable and healthy development of Shanghai’s housing leasing market.
Shanghai is constantly improving the housing system of both rental and purchase, and increasing the supply of rental housing through multiple channels. Housing leasing has increasingly become an important channel to solve the housing problems of new citizens and young people. However, during the development of the housing leasing market, there have also been some problems that cannot be ignored, affecting the stability of the leasing market and damaging the interests of tenants.
According to the “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Housing Development in Shanghai” announced by the General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government on August 13, Shanghai will effectively increase the number of dormitory bed rentals. Housing supply has formed a multi-level rental housing supply system of “a bed, a room, and a suite”. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, more than 420,000 rental housing units (rooms, dormitory beds) have been supplied, accounting for 40% of the total housing supply. Among them, there are 220,000 rental houses (rooms) and 200,000 dormitory beds; the agency continues to regulate 300,000 rental houses (rooms).
In addition, eight departments including the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development have also recently jointly issued”Notice on the Order of the Industrial Market” (Jianfang [2021] No. 55), includes housing leasing in the key areas of rectification, and requires greater efforts to rectify the market order.
In this regard, the above-mentioned 12 companies stated that they will use practical actions to fulfill their promises, operate in compliance with the law, and provide services with integrity to create a more standardized, transparent and orderly housing rental market. Environment and jointly promote the stable and healthy development of the Shanghai housing rental market.