'Cheonse fraud' real estate is still open

Q. Are the properties that brokered the charter contracts of 'Villa King' and 'Villa God' still in operation?

I was curious, so I went to see it myself.

'Villa King' Mr. Kim visited a total of 5 real estate properties that brokered contracts with the '2400 Organization'.

Three remained open, and one remained closed for two full days.

The other one was completely out of business.

After dealing with the '2400 Organization', "I have never traded fraudulently."

I visited Real Estate A in the metropolitan area.

This is a real estate where a victim of the '2400 Organization', who committed a charter fraud with 3,000 villas three years ago, obtained a chartered house.

When I went to the real estate address written on the contract, a real estate that was operating under the same name as the trade name at the time of the contract came out.

When I opened the door and entered, there was only one employee in the large office.

I was quite surprised when he said, 'I came here because I wanted to get a charter consultation'.

I usually contact you in advance through the app, so I thought it might be like that from the staff's point of view.

When I stopped talking, saying that I was worried about charter fraud, the employee reassured me, saying, 'There has been no incident since Real Estate A was created'.

I went to see the contract of the victim who was scammed by the '2400 Organization'.

A real estate agent assistant

"It's been 4 years since we built our office. There have been no incidents in 4 years. If there had been, people would have just come and made a fuss. Because of that, there are a lot of empty houses. There are also new construction levels."

The employee said that it is unconditionally safe as long as it is covered by the Housing and Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG) guarantee insurance.

If you have insurance, even if the landlord commits charter fraud, you can get your deposit back.

At the same time, he suggested that there are three good charter properties, and if time permits, we should look around together.

Among them, I stopped by one of the private houses that were for sale.

Real estate that recommends 'can charter' at a higher price than the surrounding market price

The chartered property recommended by the staff was not bad.

Parking was available, and the condition of the house was not bad.

It was 250 million won for 3 rooms and 2 bathrooms.

Was the property recommended by the employee safe?

The rental price for a house of similar size (slightly larger than the listing) on ​​the same floor was 230 million won.

The sale price was also 230 million won.

It was a 'can charter' where the charter price and the sale price were the same.

A different size house right next to it also had the same rental price and sale price of 235 million won.

All of them were chartered in cans, but to the reporters, they were inflated even more than the market price.

Later, after revealing the fact of the coverage, I asked, 'Do you say that you have never dealt with 2400 organization charter properties?'

However, this property is open for business with the name, phone number, and employees.

I also visited Real Estate B, which brokered several charter contracts for the deceased villa king Mr. Kim.

This place was also open for business with several broker assistants.

The representative realtor of real estate B described the transaction with Mr. Kim as 'it became a problem'.

At the same time, he added that he wanted to close the door by making noise such as the damage tenants came, but he was unable to do so.

I was worried about whether the expression 'the victims make noise' should be considered honest or shameless after trading charter fraud.

'Certified real estate agent' that is not easy to investigate, punish, or suspend qualifications

The reason why it is possible to openly conduct real estate business even after brokering a charter fraud contract is because it is difficult to punish a licensed real estate agent.

In order for an investigation to take place, it must be proven that 'whether you deliberately brokered it even though you knew it was a charter scam'.

If you go into this house, you have to reveal that you intentionally brokered the contract even though you knew that if you signed a contract with this landlord, you would be in trouble someday.

However, it is not easy to uncover intentionality.

Even if the investigation proceeds and goes to trial, it

Under the current law, only cases in which the Licensed Realtor Act is violated will result in suspension of the Licensed Realtor's qualifications.

Therefore, even if you are sentenced to imprisonment, your qualifications are maintained unless you are in violation of the Licensed Real Estate Agent Act, and you can work as a real estate agent as much as you like.

In fact, cases where qualifications are suspended for violating the Licensed Realtor Act are extremely rare.

A total of 69 real estate agents whose licenses were revoked over the past four years, more than half of them were 'cancellation of qualifications due to death', and only two were sentenced to imprisonment for violating the Licensed Real Estate Agent Act and were revoked.