Pay 30 thousand yuan ＂group purchase fee＂ before buying a special room？ Housing Authority： Absolutely not allowed.
"I have to pay a group purchase fee to buy a house. What is going on?" Recently, the news hotline of Yangzi Evening News has been receiving complaints from citizens, saying that the third-phase high-rise houses in the "Shimao Festival Walk" project located in Anhui County, Nanjing Metropolitan Area have launched special rooms, but the developers require buyers to pay a "group purchase fee" of 30,000 yuan in advance, and the amount is not included in the purchase contract and the total house price. So, whose pocket did this money go into? Is it reasonable to pay the "group purchase fee" for buying a house? The reporter launched an investigation.
Public complaints > >
Buying a house encounters a "group purchase fee"
Mr. Zhu, a citizen who lives in Zhujiang Town, broke the news that he wanted to buy a suite around because he was restricted in Nanjing. I heard a friend say that the Shimao Festival Walk project in the county near Jiangbei recently launched a special room. Last week, after he went to the field to see the house, he was satisfied with the 76-square-meter apartment and planned to buy one.
"The special room price is favorable, which is of course a good thing for buyers, but if you suddenly find that you have to pay another sum of money before buying a house, it will definitely be unhappy." Mr. Zhu said that what he never expected was that when he took out his bank card and prepared to pay the deposit, he was told that he had to pay an extra "group purchase fee" of 30 thousand yuan to buy a special room. "I went directly to the sales office to see the house and buy a house. I didn’t participate in the group purchase. Why should I pay the group purchase fee?"
The salesperson said > >
Developers want to pay less taxes.
The reporter learned that Shimao Festival Walk is located at Ningwu Road, Maanshan City and County, Anhui Province. After receiving complaints from the public, the reporter went to Shimao Festival Walk’s on-site marketing center. According to the salesperson who received the reporter, Shimao Festival Walk’s previous name was "Mingfa Jiangwan New Town", which has been sold for two or three years. In April this year, Shimao Real Estate acquired 51% equity of Mingfa Jiangwan New Town Project, so now the project has been renamed as "Shimao Festival Walk".
Sales staff said that at the end of August, Shimao Festival Walk will focus on launching the fourth phase of foreign houses, so it is necessary to sell the third phase of high-rise houses for sale as soon as possible, and now there is a price discount for buying a house. "There are only three buildings left in the third phase. When the houses open, the prices of the high-rise buildings will go up." The reporter said that he was very excited about the special room and asked how to make a special offer. The salesperson found a set of houses on the fifth floor and told the reporter that the total filing price of this suite is more than 660,000, and the price is only 500,000. "In addition, pay a group purchase fee of 30,000 yuan, which means that you have to give 530,000 in total." Is the group purchase fee an e-commerce fee? Regarding the reporter’s question, the salesperson said, "You can understand it this way, but this money is given to another supervision account of the developer."
The salesperson also said that the developer collects the group purchase fee in order to avoid tax. "If you sell a house, you have to pay the urban construction tax of 16.5% of the total price. If the total price is less than 30,000, the developer can pay four or five thousand less taxes!"
Housing management department > >
Shall not charge any fees outside the contract.
"This is absolutely impossible!" For Shimao Festival Walk, in addition to the house payment, it is necessary to collect the group purchase fee, and the relevant person in charge of the county housing management bureau clearly stated that it is not allowed.
The person in charge said that in order to standardize the sales price behavior of newly-built commercial housing, the competent authorities have issued policies for many times, requiring development enterprises to put on record the price of newly-built commercial housing, implement the "one-price clearing" of the sales price of newly-built commercial housing, and clearly mark the price of commercial housing sales. Developers should not sell houses above the record price, nor should they charge any fees outside the contract. If buyers encounter the phenomenon of charging fees for illegal real estate, they must be careful and not credulous. They can complain to the competent authorities and the Housing Authority will investigate and deal with it.
In this regard, the legal profession also said that the "group purchase fee" charged by the real estate seems to give preferential treatment to the buyers, but there are some major hidden dangers, such as misleading consumers, affecting the statistics of the real estate industry, destroying the financial environment, etc., and the developer claims to the buyers that the "group purchase fee" is not included in the contract, in order to avoid taxes, and this behavior itself is obviously suspected of evading taxes. (Yangzi Evening News/Yangyan reporter Song Nanfei)