▲ The picture above is not related to the content of the article.
With the government's strict regulations on private reconstruction projects continuing, more and more complexes are pursuing remodeling, which is relatively easy to implement.
Like reconstruction, the government is not easily releasing regulatory stance on private remodeling projects.
According to the Korea Remodeling Association, the number of apartment complexes (including those that have been approved for establishment of the association and planned for the association inauguration general meeting) in the metropolitan area (including those that have been approved for establishment of the association and planned for the association inauguration general meeting) were 54 at the end of December of last year (23,000 units). 4,551 households).
Remodeling is a method of increasing the number of houses by increasing the number of floors or by increasing the floor plan while maintaining the frame, unlike reconstruction in which an existing apartment is completely demolished and rebuilt.
You can create a new underground car park or make it wider.
Apartment reconstruction has become difficult to receive the passing grades D (conditionally allowed) or E (defective) even after the standard period of completion, which is 30 years, due to the reinforcement of safety checks in March 2018, whereas remodeling can be carried out after 15 years of completion. Frame) In safety diagnosis, if it is B or higher among the maintenance and repair grades (A to C), vertical extension to increase the number of floors is possible, and if it is C or higher, horizontal extension is possible.
As the licensing standards are not more strict than reconstruction, business promotion is relatively easy, there is no obligation to supply rental housing, and it is not subject to the excess profit return system.
In Seoul, Garak-dong, Songpa-gu (1st stage) Ssangyong Apartment (2,64 households) received approval to establish a remodeling association in November last year. Last month, Geumho Byucksan Apt. 807 households) established remodeling associations one after another.
On the 31st of last month, Gunpo City, Gyeonggi Province, announced the establishment of a remodeling association for Yulgok Jugong 3 complex (2,42 households) in Geumjeong-dong, Sanbon new city, the first new city.
In particular, the atmosphere of active remodeling has been spreading beyond the metropolitan area to local metropolitan cities.
LG Metro City (7,374 households) in Yongho-dong, Nam-gu, the largest apartment complex in Busan, formed a committee to establish a remodeling housing association at the end of last year.
This is the first apartment complex in Busan to promote remodeling.
Woobang Office Sol Mansion Apartment (194 households) in Beomeo-dong, Suseong-gu, Daegu City also formed a remodeling cooperative establishment promotion committee, and announced a bid for partner companies last month.
However, the government's strong regulatory stance over whether to allow vertical extensions and the removal of the load-bearing walls between furniture, which is the core of the remodeling business, is making the project difficult.
The government allowed remodeling of vertical extensions in April 2014.
Vertical extension that can increase up to three floors (two floors for 15 floors or less) is easy to increase the number of households, and the increased number of households (15% compared to the previous number of households) is sold in general to increase business value. I got attention.
However, the 3rd and 4th civil service complexes in Neti Village, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, which had undergone vertical extension remodeling in 2014 and passed the first safety check, were judged inadequate in the second stability review last month.
So far, the only place that has received permission for vertical extension remodeling is Seongji Apartment in Songpa-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, which received approval for the business plan in February last year.
Some of the remodeling complexes that were promoting vertical extension are turning to horizontal and separate building extensions.
Cheongdam Gunyeong (240 households) in Gangnam-gu, Seoul held a general meeting of members in early last month and decided on a plan to receive a proposal for construction by horizontal extension.
The construction deliberation was completed with the horizontal extension plan for Rainbow Village Complex 4 in Gumi-dong, Bundang, Hansol Village Complex 5 in Jeongja-dong, and Magnolia Complex 2 in Pyeongchon, which were also pursuing vertical extension.
In particular, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Byun Chang-heum said in a forum hosted by the Democratic Policy Research Institute (current Democratic Research Institute) in April 2013 that the vertical extension of the remodeling was a "dangerous housing policy" and said, "To cope with the decline in housing prices in the first new cities such as Bundang and Ilsan. "Policy".
He emphasized that "(1st new city) is denser than 2nd new city, so permanent shading can deteriorate the quality of housing when performing vertical extension remodeling, and the purpose as a planned city is fundamentally damaged."
As a result, there is a prospect that the vertical extension of the remodeling project may contract further in the future.
In addition, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is continuing to postpone the announcement of research services on whether to allow the removal of the load-bearing walls (walls made to withstand or distribute the load of the building) between furniture that will increase the viability of vertical remodeling.
Demolition of load-bearing walls is a key factor in expanding the apartment remodeling market, which is considered to be less profitable than reconstruction.
Most of the mid-rise apartments over 15 years of completion in Korea have a wall-type structure (with no separate pillars) and a 2-bay plan (a layout with one room and a living room in the front of the apartment).
When remodeling, it is necessary to remove the bearing wall between furniture to expand the space to the side to create a 4-bay flat (room, room, living room, room layout in front of the apartment) that maximizes lighting and ventilation, thereby improving the profitability of the business.
Earlier, the government announced that it would allow some of the bearing walls between apartment furniture to be removed during remodeling of vertical extensions at the end of 2015, but when stability issues were raised, it decided to review it in August 2016, the following year.
Since then, it has been announced that the decision will be made until March 2019, but it has been postponed.
The Korea Institute of Construction Technology, who performed the research service, submitted a verification report to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in early September last year.
Researchers are known to have technically concluded that it is possible to remove some of the bearing walls.
(Photo = Yonhap News)