On September 27, the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Dongguan City, Guangdong Province issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Management of the Real Estate Brokerage Industry" to severely crack down on illegal activities of real estate agencies.
The "Notice" mentioned that in order to resolutely implement the positioning of "houses are for living in, not for speculation", effectively standardize the business behavior of real estate brokerage agencies, strengthen the construction of the industry credit system, and create a good industry To develop the environment, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, and promote the stable and healthy development of the real estate market in Dongguan City, relevant measures have been formulated in accordance with relevant laws and regulations and the national and provincial work arrangements for special rectification of real estate market order.
In terms of strengthening industry supervision and promoting multi-party governance, the "Notice" proposes to increase the disclosure of housing price information. Further improve the monitoring and statistical mechanism of first-hand and second-hand housing prices, use geospatial information and online transaction data of first- and second-hand residential properties to establish an online "Dongguan House Price Map", and publish the online transaction prices of first-hand properties and transaction references of second-hand properties in the city Prices guide the market to rational transactions.
Real estate agencies are not allowed to publish false housing information through different channels such as stores and websites, create rumors, spread rumors, speculate on housing in school districts, hype false information, and other behaviors that mislead consumers or market expectations.
At the same time, standardize the housing information release and management mechanism. The intermediary association should strengthen market research on second-hand housing transaction prices and monitoring of listing prices, and develop unified standards for releasing housing information. When real estate brokerage agencies and practitioners accept entrustment to place listings, they are not allowed to exaggerate transaction information to guide owners to increase their bids at will. The price of the house displayed must be consistent with the owner's written entrustment price, and they are not allowed to accept or publish through online and offline channels that are significantly higher than the price. The listing price is the reference price for second-hand housing transactions in Dongguan City. The real estate network information release platform should establish and improve relevant mechanisms, strengthen the qualification review of brokerage agencies and practitioners who publish housing information, clarify the methods for complaining and reporting of housing information, and the handling mechanism for illegal brokerage behavior, and find that brokerage agencies or practitioners publish false properties in violation of regulations. If source information is obtained, the real estate industry authorities and intermediary associations shall be promptly notified for processing.
In terms of severely cracking down on illegal activities of real estate agencies, the "Notice" clarifies that the investigation and punishment of illegal activities of real estate brokerage institutions and employees will be intensified, taking mass feedback, media reports, and public opinion concerns as the main clues. The starting point is to effectively solve the issues of public concern, and the focus is on sternly punishing real estate brokerage institutions and employees for their violations of laws and regulations.
According to the "Notice", real estate brokerage agencies and practitioners are not allowed to publish false housing information through different channels such as stores and websites, create rumors, spread rumors, speculate on housing in school districts, hype false information, etc. to mislead consumers or Behavior expected by the market; shall not induce, instigate, or assist house buyers to defraud house purchase qualifications, defraud withdrawals or loans of housing provident funds, or circumvent purchase and loan restrictions by forging certification materials, affiliated with third-party companies to pay social security, etc.; shall not act for customers Facilitate the signing of "yin and yang contracts" with different transaction prices for the same house, and illegally avoid transaction taxes and fees; shall not violate relevant regulations on transaction fund supervision, illegally embezzle or misappropriate customer transaction funds, force the provision of agency services, guarantee services, or bundle The act of charging excessively for services.
In addition, real estate brokerage agencies and practitioners are not allowed to use information asymmetry to control sellers and housing resources through "ABC orders" and transaction chains, so as to "not be qualified to purchase houses" and "wait for loan approval" Use as an excuse to induce sellers to conduct online house purchase and sale transactions with third parties or to earn price differences; it is not allowed to collude with real estate development companies to hold back on sales, speculate on house numbers, charge "tea fees" and "inward transfer" to sell houses; no commercial housing is allowed Disturbing marketing calls, malicious phone harassment, leaking, selling or improper use of the client's personal information, and seeking improper benefits.
The "Notice" pointed out that in the future, communication and coordination with market supervision, public security, taxation, financial supervision, publicity, Internet information and other departments will be strengthened, and a comprehensive approach will be taken to focus on interviews, inspections and unannounced visits, and "double random" spot inspections. , special inspections, joint law enforcement, key review and other methods to form a synergy of work, strengthen responsibility, and maintain a high-pressure posture to control chaos in real estate intermediaries.
Establish and improve an information exchange and sharing mechanism, and conduct regular or irregular inspections of brokerage agencies' stores, Internet platforms, and real estate websites that publish housing information in Dongguan City. During the inspection, brokerage agencies that are found to have illegally published false housing information will be punished by The intermediary association will make a public announcement and urge rectification. Serious cases will be included in the integrity blacklist and announced to the public.