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Recently, as real estate prices soared, there were many voices saying that brokerage fees also rose significantly, making it a burden. Accordingly, the government has released three reform proposals to improve real estate brokerage fees, and one of them is decided through a discussion.
Reporter Hyung-an Son explains the government's reform plan in detail.
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In February, the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements announced the results of a research service on ways to improve brokerage fees entrusted by the government.
There are three improvement plans, all lowering the upper limit of the commission rate from 0.9% to 0.7%.
In particular, the government is strongly reviewing the second plan, in which the standard for high-priced housing is set at 900 million won, with 0.5% for those over 900 million, 0.6% for those over 1.2 billion, and 0.7% for those over 1.5 billion.
[Shim Gyo-eon/Professor of Real Estate Department at Konkuk University: I think he decided that lowering the brokerage fee would be of some help to the households of the middle class or the common people.]
When I lined up apartments in Seoul The so-called median price in the middle is 1.025 billion won.
When buying and selling a 1 billion apartment, the current fee is 9 million won, but if the second plan is applied, it is 5.5 million won, which is 39% cheaper.
If you are looking for a jeonse of 600 million won, which is the median level of the Seoul jeonse, the fee will be reduced from the current 4.8 million won to 1.8 million won.
However, in all three proposals, the upper limit of the sale rate for houses under 600 million won was maintained at the current 0.4%.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is holding a discussion forum today (17th) based on the research results of the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements.
The government is expected to announce the final draft within this month after further discussion after the debate.