Hanoi asks police to handle the situation of "bribes" to buy social housing

Faced with many brokers advertising social housing purchases at a price difference of billions of dong, the Hanoi Department of Construction has stepped in to end the above situation.

Faced with many brokers advertising social housing purchases at a price difference of billions of dong, the Hanoi Department of Construction has stepped in to end the above situation.

Recently, the Hanoi Department of Construction has requested the city police to strengthen the direction of the commune-level police (where there are social housing projects) to review and handle brokers who take advantage of receiving declarations and submitting purchase/lease/hire-purchase documents in violation of the law. Any fraudulent acts when declaring and confirming social housing documents when discovered, including during the post-inspection process, will be handled according to current regulations.

Right in front of the social housing project N01 Ha Dinh (Thanh Tri district), a real estate company brazenly opened a document processing service. Photo: Thanh Vu

The Department of Construction also requested the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to direct the Land Registration Office to facilitate people to declare documents confirming housing conditions. At the same time, the People's Committee at the commune level also needs to support people in confirming conditions on housing, income, and preferential loans.

Note that people can only submit their applications directly to the investor, not through brokers or real estate trading floors. Before selling/leasing/renting to buy social housing, the investor is responsible for reporting to the Department to publicly post information on the electronic information page of this unit about the time to receive applications and the selling price.

Previously, according to the investigation of the Investment Electronic Newspaper reporter - Baodautu.vn , some trading floors and brokers continuously advertised new social housing purchase quotas with a difference of 200 million VND to 1 billion VND compared to the original price.

On social networks, many self-proclaimed real estate experts are also selling “sure-win” social housing purchases. These individuals openly assert that they have relationships with businesses, which is why they have such advantages.

Even the consulting service for making documents, which is normally provided free of charge by investors, is being exploited by organizations and individuals who charge fees of 5-10 million VND/set. Some units even openly hang signs accepting documents right in front of the gate of social housing projects.

Not only are people stunned by the “bribe” fee, many are also “dazzled” by the matrix of fake information. For example, when searching for the Rice City Long Chau project (Thuong Thanh ward, Long Bien district), the results will return a series of websites claiming to be from the investor.

From the domain name, interface to project information, everything is almost copied exactly from the original website. Even though the investor has not announced the selling price, these sites have given an estimated price of 20 - 25 million VND/m2.

Source: https://baodautu.vn/batdongsan/ha-noi-de-nghi-cong-an-xu-ly-tinh-trang-lot-tay-mua-nha-o-xa-hoi-d255901.html