Date of implementation of Beijing Housing Lease Regulations 1

The Regulations of Beijing Municipality on Housing Lease was established in June 2020 and passed by the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress for three times. It will be implemented on September 1 this year, and all houses with special management requirements such as urban public housing and public rental housing will be brought into management.

The spirit of "no speculation in housing", "balance between occupation and residence" and "living in a certain place" has been written into laws and regulations. At the same time, the regulations highly respond to public concerns, stipulating that lessors are not allowed to drive out lessees by abnormal means such as water and electricity cuts and threats of violence. Rental housing should comply with the relevant safety regulations and standards of construction, public security, indoor air quality, etc., and should not be partitioned to change the internal structure of the housing. In view of people's concern about rising rents, the corresponding price intervention mechanism has also been clarified.

Guarantee housing supply

Encourage new commercial housing projects to build rental housing.

Increasing housing supply is an important way to ensure that housing is just needed. The regulations first clarified the general principles of bringing rental housing into housing development planning and expanding the supply of affordable rental housing.

How to increase the actual supply? This Municipality encourages increasing the supply of rental housing by adding or using existing land for special construction of rental housing, building new commercial housing projects, converting non-residential housing stock into rental housing according to regulations, and renting eligible idle housing.

At the same time, revitalize rural land resources and make it clear that rural collective economic organizations can use collective construction land to build and operate rental housing through self-construction, joint venture or shareholding, and idle housing on rural homesteads can be rented according to law.

Balanced lease relationship

Establish a unified rental "online signing" service platform.

Establishing a stable lease relationship is the key link to solve rent disputes, and the regulations further clarify the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants. For example, it is advocated that both parties to the lease sign a long-term lease contract, and the lessor shall not deliberately lower the service standard by cutting off water and electricity, or use illegal means such as violence or threats to force the lessee to change or terminate the lease contract and recover the leased house in advance. The lessee shall provide identification, fulfill the obligations of the property user and use the leased house safely and reasonably.

In order to reduce the burden on the masses, the regulations propose to establish a unified "housing lease management service platform" to provide online signing, registration, information inquiry, authentication and other services for the leasing parties. Encourage lessors and lessees to complete the online signing of housing lease contracts through this platform and automatically submit them for registration and filing. The signing information will be shared with the public security organs synchronously, and there is no need to register the lease separately. The registration number of the housing lease contract can be used as a certificate for the lessee to handle public services such as residence permit, settlement of points, and enrollment of children.