The Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-rural Development issued an emergency notice to clarify the business activities that housing leasing companies must not implement
Do not use violence to evict tenants
Yangcheng Evening News reporter Li Xiaoxu reported: "High entry, low exit", "long income and short payment" for some long-term rental apartments, which caused "explosive thunder" and "running" problems. On November 17, the Shenzhen Municipal Housing and Urban-rural Development Bureau issued the "Shenzhen The “Emergency Notice of the Housing and Construction Bureau on Effectively Regulating the Operational Behavior of Housing Leasing Enterprises” further clarifies the operating activities that are prohibited by relevant laws and regulations for housing leasing companies, and guides housing leasing companies to regulate their operations.
Don't trick the signing of long-term contracts
The Bureau of Housing and Urban-rural Development of Shenzhen Municipality stated that some long-term rental apartments adopted "high entry and low exit", "long income and short payment", which caused the problems of "explosion" and "runaway", which has attracted great attention from government departments and the society.
Housing leasing companies must not use methods such as "high input and low output", "long income and short payment" to drive up the lease price, increase the risk of corporate capital breakage, and infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of housing rights holders and tenants.
Housing leasing companies shall not use fraud, coercion, format clauses, etc. to drive up the rent, or illegally trick the lessee into signing a long-term lease contract, or use format clauses to infringe on the legal rights of the lessee or aggravate the tenant’s obligations, or violate the lessee. Willing to sell other goods or services in a tie-in, and shall not conduct price collusion, fabricate and spread price increase information and other price violations.
The housing leasing enterprise shall strictly fulfill the agreement of the housing lease contract with the lessee, and shall not unilaterally increase the rent, arbitrarily deduct the deposit, shall not arbitrarily set up name and charge, shall not seek improper benefits through contract fraud, standard clauses, etc., and shall not force unilateral termination of the contract illegally.
Don't trick the use of rental consumer loans
At the same time, housing leasing companies must not conceal, deceive, or force tenants to use housing rental consumption loans, and must not induce tenants to use housing rental consumption loans in the name of rent installment or rent concessions, and must not embed relevant content of housing rental consumption loans. Housing lease contract.
In addition, to consolidate the main responsibility for the settlement of housing leasing disputes, housing leasing companies should establish a leasing dispute resolution mechanism, promptly accept house leasing complaints, and properly resolve disputes with related parties.
If housing leasing disputes between housing leasing companies and housing right holders or tenants cannot be resolved through negotiation, they shall be resolved through people’s mediation, litigation, arbitration and other legal channels. Violent threats, intimidation, water and electricity or other violent means shall not be used to expel the tenant.
The completed housing information should be cancelled within 5 days
The "Emergency Notice" requires that housing leasing companies shall not operate beyond the scope.
Where natural persons sublet more than 10 units (rooms) of housing, they shall go through the registration of market entities according to law.
Housing leasing enterprises shall strengthen the management of recruitment of employees.
Practitioners are strictly prohibited from undertaking housing leasing business in their own name.
According to the requirements, housing leasing companies and their employees should strengthen the management of the release of housing information in accordance with regulations and be responsible for the authenticity and effectiveness of housing information.
The same house of the same institution can only be published once on the same network information platform. The house information published in different channels should be consistent, and the house information that has been transacted or cancelled should be revoked from all publishing channels within 5 working days.