China Industry Network News (Workers Daily - China Industry Network reporter Lai Zhikai) According to the official website of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress, the "Beijing Housing Leasing Regulations" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") have been reviewed and officially announced recently, and will be released from September this year. It will come into effect on the 1st of the month.
The "Regulations" stipulate that the Beijing Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department shall strengthen the monitoring of housing rental prices and establish and improve relevant early warning mechanisms.
When housing rents have risen significantly or are likely to rise significantly, the government may take price intervention measures such as price increase declarations, limit rents or rent increases, etc., to stabilize the rent level, and report to the State Council for the record in accordance with the law.
If the lessor refuses to implement it, the market supervision and management department will handle it according to law.
It is understood that Beijing began to prepare the research and drafting of housing rental management regulations since 2017, and actively promoted local legislative work. During this period, the housing construction department conducted field research in Haidian, Chaoyang, Daxing and other places on the management of housing rentals, and established projects to demonstrate And organized a legislative forum.
After the "Regulations" were drafted, the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress publicly solicited opinions from various social parties such as housing construction, market supervision, towns and streets, leasing companies, brokerage agencies, lessees and lessor representatives, and put forward suggestions for revision. After multiple deliberation and approval, it was finally formulated and implemented.
The reporter noticed that the "Regulations" clearly regulate the long-term hot issues in Beijing's housing rental market.
When publishing housing information or recommending housing on the Internet information platform, the platform shall require the information publisher to submit information such as identity, address, contact information, administrative license, etc., conduct verification, registration, establish registration files, and retain no less than 3 year.
Internet information platforms shall examine the certification materials submitted by information publishers in accordance with the relevant provisions of these Regulations; if the certification materials comply with the provisions of these Regulations, the platform shall provide information release services.
Based on the principle of "pay one to pay three", leasing companies charge a rental deposit, generally no more than one month's rent, and need to be escrow through a third-party account.
When a leasing enterprise collects rent from the lessee, it shall generally not exceed 3 months' rent at a time.
When the housing lease contract expires or is terminated, in addition to deducting the rent, liquidated damages and other expenses, the housing leasing enterprise shall refund the remaining deposit and rent to the lessee within 3 working days after the lessee returns the house.
The rental housing shall take the originally planned and designed room as the minimum rental unit, and no partition shall be used to change the internal structure of the house; the living room shall not be rented out alone, and the kitchen, bathroom, balcony, storage room and other non-residential spaces shall not be rented out for living.
The "Regulations" also impose detailed constraints on the obligations that house lessors should perform.
Including renting houses to those who do not provide identification materials; not taking measures such as stopping water supply, power supply, heat supply, gas supply, or other deliberately lowering service standards, or taking illegal methods such as violence and threats to force the tenant to change or cancel the house The lease contract, the early recovery of the rental housing.
Regarding the rental loan risks that have appeared in the housing rental market in recent years, the Regulations require housing rental companies not to induce tenants to use housing rental loans, or to include rental loan-related content in housing rental contracts.