Inner Mongolia: It is suggested that the cancellation of "pool area" should be reported as a legislative item.

Recently, official website, the Housing and Construction Department of Inner Mongolia, issued a reply to the proposal of Wang Fenghua, a member of CPPCC. In response to Wang Fenghua's proposal to standardize the "pool area" of housing, the Housing and Construction Department of Inner Mongolia stated that the proposal to cancel the "pool area" was listed as a legislative proposal that needs to be revised in the near future and reported to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. At present, there is still controversy in the industry about whether the "pool area" should be abolished. Some experts suggest that all localities should better investigate the pool area, while others think that it is meaningless to cancel the pool area.

The Housing and Construction Department of Inner Mongolia listed the cancellation of "pool area" as a legislative project that needs to be revised in the near future and reported it to the Ministry of Housing and Construction (source: Inner Mongolia Housing and Construction Department)

Inner Mongolia plans to cancel the "pool area" as a legislative project and report it.

It is reported that Wang Fenghua proposed in the proposal that in the current commercial housing transaction and confirmation in China, the existing construction area of * * * is generally used as the standard, and the determination of pool area is professional. The majority of property buyers lack professional knowledge of the rationality and accuracy of sharing public building area, and cannot intuitively understand the actual interior area. Moreover, the pool area varies from project to project, causing consumers' doubts and contradictions.

The Housing and Construction Department of Inner Mongolia pointed out that the use of interior area as the valuation basis in commercial housing transactions proposed in the proposal has a positive effect on preventing the disorderly increase of pool area, reducing contradictions and disputes in the process of buying houses and safeguarding the vital interests of ordinary people. Therefore, the Housing and Construction Department of Inner Mongolia listed the proposal to cancel the "pool area" as a legislative project proposal that needs to be revised in the near future and reported it to the Ministry of Housing and Construction. In view of the fact that the construction area has been used as the pricing basis for commercial housing sales for many years, and it has been confirmed by laws and regulations, if the pricing basis is reformed, we must first revise and improve the relevant supporting systems, clarify the concept and pricing method of interior construction area, do a good job in publicity and interpretation, and set a reasonable transition period to realize the smooth transition of pricing basis and standard from construction area to interior area, so it is difficult and takes a long time to implement.

In addition, the Housing and Construction Department of Inner Mongolia also replied to Wang Fenghua's "Open and transparent pool area information", "Property fees are priced according to the interior area" and "Heating fees are priced according to the interior area". It is mentioned that after calculating the pool area, there is no repeated payment of property fees, but the property fees per unit area are reduced, and the pool area is not calculated, but the property fees per unit area are increased, and the total property fees remain unchanged.

According to public information, Wang Fenghua is now the deputy mayor of Ulanhot. This is not the first time she has proposed to standardize the "pool area".

2021Wang Fenghua, member of the CPC National Committee, once suggested that the pool area should be abolished (Source: Inner Mongolia Housing and Construction Department).

202 1, Wang Fenghua also proposed to standardize the "pool area" of houses. In August, 20021year, the Housing and Construction Department of Inner Mongolia replied that "shared building area" is not a standard term, but an abbreviation of * * * own building area shared by the owners in their daily use. The housing construction department has clear regulations on the construction area of * * *. At present, there is no standard or mandatory scope for the proportion of commercial housing pool area to property area, which mainly depends on the project architectural design content of real estate development enterprises. In the Model Text of Commercial Housing Sales Contract in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region jointly formulated by the Housing and Construction Department of the Autonomous Region and the Market Supervision Bureau of the Autonomous Region, the construction area, interior construction area and shared construction area of commercial housing are clearly listed for the reference of buyers.

In the next step, the housing construction department will strengthen the guidance of housing area surveying and mapping, promote the improvement of housing quality, encourage real estate development enterprises to improve the design level in the architectural design of the project, minimize the "shared building area" and reduce the owner's later housing holding expenses.

Some experts said that it is meaningless to cancel the pool area.

In March 2022, Hong Yang, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, also suggested canceling the pool area of houses. According to Ningxia Daily, Hongyang pointed out: "It is a common phenomenon in China to add pool area to the sales of commercial housing. The most terrible thing is that the pool area lacks legal basis and institutional constraints. " In the process of performing his duties, he found that "what area to share and how much area to share" were all at a loss, and the developer could only "talk nonsense" and the owner had no right to explain.

After the proposal was issued, Professor capital university of economics and business and Zhao Xiuchi, vice president and secretary general of Beijing Real Estate Law Society, issued a document saying that it is meaningless to cancel the pool area in housing sales.

Zhao Xiuchi explained that there is no doubt about the shared area of the lobby, elevator and stairs because the house does have shared area. These pool areas are also for property buyers, and there will definitely be charges. "If the pool area is cancelled, the cost of these pool areas will have to be collected through rising house prices, rising property fees and rising heating costs." Zhao Xiuchi said.

Zhao Xiuchi believes that there is a legal basis for the calculation and measurement of pool area. However, due to the complexity of the calculation of pool area, the pool area of buildings with different heights and grades is also different, which will inevitably cause some people's ambiguity and misunderstanding. There are also individual developers who fish in troubled waters and count the pool area that should not be counted. But generally speaking, it is understandable to measure the housing area by the construction area including the pool area or the use area excluding the pool area, but the statistical caliber or measurement unit is different. Measured by construction area or usable area, it does not affect the total house price, but it does affect the unit price. Because developers will not charge less because of different units of measurement.

On August 30th, Yan Yuejin, research director of the think tank center of Yiju Research Institute, told Jim that Inner Mongolia has made a positive response to the retention and abolition of the pool area system, which is of positive significance. According to his observation, this is the first time that the official level has responded to the hot topic-pool. This is bound to make the issues discussed by the people in the past more concerned by the government. The problem of pool area involves the purchase cost and property cost of buyers, and it is also related to some housing enterprises borrowing pool in disguise to reduce construction costs. Therefore, it is of great significance to deal with the problem of pool area, which has a positive effect on standardizing the development of housing enterprises and reducing the cost of buyers. All localities need to better investigate the pool area, put forward better suggestions and actively solve this problem.