Dongguan has included two types of real estate agents in the negative list. What is the signal?

Starting from September 14, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province will include real estate agent associates (junior) and real estate agents (intermediate) in Dongguan City’s negative list of talent registration.

In order to curb the rapid rise in housing prices, Dongguan has introduced a number of real estate control policies this year. What signal does this inclusion of relevant personnel in the real estate agency industry in the negative list of talent registration send?

Does not accept household registration applications for the two types of professional qualifications

The "Announcement on Updating the Dongguan City Talent Registration Negative List" issued by the Dongguan Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau shows that: Further standardize the qualification review for talent household registration in Dongguan City. According to relevant regulations, real estate agent associates (junior level) and real estate agents (intermediate level) are included in the negative list of talent household registration in Dongguan City.

The announcement will be implemented on September 14 and will be valid for 6 months. During this period, the acceptance department will not accept talent household registration applications based on the professional qualifications (including professional titles and professional qualifications) in the negative list of Dongguan City’s talent household registration as admission conditions.

Source: Dongguan Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau official website

Being included in the negative list means that you cannot obtain talent registration qualifications by obtaining these two professional qualification certificates. Previously included in the negative list were some qualifications that were relatively easy to take and had a large number of applicants and passers. On March 14 this year, information technology processors (junior) and system integration project engineers (intermediate) were included in the negative list of Dongguan talent registration. Does the inclusion of real estate agent associates and real estate agents in Dongguan City’s negative list of talent registration mean that real estate agents are no longer welcome in Dongguan?

In this regard, Yan Yuejin, research director of the Think Tank Center of the E-House Research Institute, analyzed that the starting point of this policy is not to crack down on the intermediary industry, or to be related to disguised real estate speculation by relevant personnel in the intermediary industry. He said that intermediaries have more housing resources, and if the household registration policy is relatively loose, it will make it easier for this group to speculate in real estate. The purpose of restricting household registration is to standardize the household registration policy and reduce the phenomenon of real estate speculation by some groups. Similar situations can also inspire other cities, that is, they need to actively pay attention to such household registration policies and pay attention to the impact of negative lists.

Frequent introduction of real estate control policies

In order to curb the rapid rise in housing prices, Dongguan City has frequently introduced real estate control policies since this year, including "Wanjiu Tiao" and "Wanliu Tiao".

On August 2, Dongguan issued the "Notice on Further Improving the Regulation of the Real Estate Market", which included land bidding, housing purchase restrictions, financial supervision, tax regulation, second-hand housing prices, sales management, chaos management, A package of measures was proposed in eight aspects including housing security.

Through the "combination punch" of regulation, Dongguan's real estate market has cooled down significantly this year. According to data from the Centaline Real Estate Research Institute, more than 30,000 residential units were sold in Dongguan in the first half of the year. Among them, 23,318 first-hand residential units were sold, an increase of 11% year-on-year; 7,652 second-hand residential units were sold, a year-on-year decrease of 36%. It is worth noting that although second-hand housing transactions have shrunk significantly, prices are still rising. According to data from the Guangdong Provincial Housing Association, the average sales price of commercial housing in Dongguan City in the first half of the year was 27,303 yuan per square meter, a year-on-year increase of 20.4%, ranking first in the province in house price growth.