During the epidemic prevention period, many landlords and renters reached arrangements of rent reduction, rent exemption and rent postponement-
Rent reduction * * * to tide over the difficulties
Recently, in order to effectively curb the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, various localities have extended the Spring Festival holiday to minimize the gathering of people, and related measures have inevitably affected many businesses with offline customers as the main body, such as catering, entertainment and individual merchants. In this special period, the monthly fixed rent expenditure has become an important "pressure source" for many market players and even ordinary renters.
hold a group to keep warm and tide over the difficulties. With the deepening of the national epidemic prevention and control, more and more landlords and renters have reached the arrangement of rent reduction, rent-free and rent-deferred, with a long-term view, to protect the economic vitality of China.
reduction and non-reduction have their own difficulties
prevention and control of epidemic situation is directly related to people's life safety and health, and to the overall stability of economic and social development. But in the short term, the original pace of life will inevitably be affected.
Yang Ping, a Liaoning girl who rented a house in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination, recently felt this influence. "I resigned some time ago and devoted myself to the postgraduate entrance examination, so there has been no income. I was going to get a job or find a job after the results came out. However, these plans can't be continued because of the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, and the money is still tight. For a young man like me who has just entered the society, if we can reduce some rent at this juncture, we can alleviate the pressure of life and solve many problems. " Yang Ping said.
Yang Ping's words represent the thoughts of many young people. However, in a special period, landlords also have their own difficulties, such as the pressure of repaying loans and raising rents by renting.
Zeng Xiaoqing, a citizen of Shenzhen, has a number of properties for rent. When talking about rent reduction, he said that it is a win-win thing to reduce rent for tenants in special periods, which can help tenants who have not been reworked for the time being and are in financial difficulties to recover. "Under the influence of the epidemic, it is not easy for tenants and it is difficult for landlords. If landlords rely entirely on rent to repay loans and maintain their livelihood, then rent reduction will inevitably put pressure on them. For example, some houses are long-term, and the rent has been paid long ago, so there is no way to change it in the short term; In some places, it is impossible for landlords to reach an agreement. Landlords who want to reduce rent are afraid that rash action will affect other landlords in the same area. Therefore, this matter still depends on personal strength and ideological awareness. Like our family, the main source of income is work, and the rent is only part of it, so I intend to halve it for one month. After all, helping others is a good thing, and it can be regarded as making some contributions to China's economy. " Zeng Xiaoqing said.
In the face of the epidemic, local governments have successively introduced measures to encourage landlords to appropriately reduce or exempt rents. Among them, Shandong Province proposes that small and medium-sized enterprises that lease the operating properties of state-owned enterprises can reduce or halve the rent for 1-3 months; Chongqing Real Estate Association issued a proposal to the leasing industry in the whole city, suggesting that the landlord should reduce or exempt the rent appropriately; Hangzhou, Zhejiang, encourages landlords to reduce rents for tenants. For those who have been rent-free for more than two months, the government will give property tax and urban land use tax reduction and exemption according to the number of rent-free months ... These measures have made enterprises and individuals feel warm.
Large enterprises take the lead in reducing rents
Dong Dengxin, director of the Institute of Finance and Securities of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, said in an interview that the epidemic has the most important impact on the economy in two aspects. First, the normal production and operation order has been impacted, making it difficult for some enterprises to return to work on time. Second, it is psychological and expected, which will bring a relatively big impact to industrial and commercial operators.
It is worth noting that many leasing enterprises or owners are taking the initiative to help tenants tide over the difficulties.
Tonghu Science and Technology Town Park, Country Garden, Huizhou, Guangdong Province, has established a group prevention and control mechanism with companies in the park to assist in the epidemic prevention work, and at the same time, it has taken the initiative to reduce one month's site rent and property management fees for shops in the park, reduce one month's property management fees for enterprises entering the park and provide free indoor cleaning and disinfection services. At the same time, Country Garden also cooperated with the local government to set up a grid management team, and sent special personnel to assist all enterprises entering the park to carry out the declaration of various procedures for returning to work and the investigation of returning personnel, and continued to strengthen the work of temperature detection and disinfection in the park to ensure the safety of park personnel.
"The whole country is United in stopping the epidemic, and the enterprises in the park have delayed their resumption of work in order to effectively prevent and control the epidemic, which has indeed brought a lot of business pressure. We always believe that only when the enterprise is good, the operators will be good. In a special period, Wuhu Science and Technology Town will focus on industrial development, overcome difficulties with everyone, become a solid dependence of enterprises entering the park, and make due contributions to society. " Xiang Junbo, assistant president of Country Garden Group and general manager of the production city development division, said.
Long-term rental apartment operators are free. On the one hand, they increase their support for Wuhan, open Wuhan Free Post for medical staff to live in, and reduce the monthly rent of Wuhan Free Tenants by 51%. On the other hand, they provide arrangements for tenants who cannot return to their cities as scheduled due to the epidemic. "For example, if you can't return to the rented city, you can freely introduce preferential measures such as flexible renewal of rent, reduction and exemption of service fees, upgrading disinfection and cleaning, and assisting in sending luggage; Provide temporary resettlement housing for tenants who cannot return to the rental community; For tenants returning from areas with severe epidemics, coordinate the temporary living quarters required for the 14-day isolation period. " The relevant person in charge said freely.
At the same time, dozens of real estate enterprises, such as Vanke Commercial, Wanda Commercial Management, Longhu Group, China Jinmao, Sanya International Duty Free, OCT Group, etc., have also announced rent reduction measures to varying degrees, choosing to tide over the difficulties with merchants. Among them, Poly Development Commercial Company quickly made the deployment action of tenant rent reduction and support, and reduced some rents for the settled merchants in its 22 shopping centers, and some "tax-free cities" became "rent-free cities". CR Vanguard exempted merchants from the rent and property management fees during the Spring Festival, benefiting about 4,111 merchants nationwide, covering a business area of about 1.84 million square meters, with a reduction amount of about 31 million yuan.
Focus on protecting economic vitality
For small and micro enterprises, especially start-ups, reducing office space rent is a "timely help" for enterprises.
"We are a project team that graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia. We are mainly engaged in robot education and programming education. We have been renting in Jintou Plaza for six months, and we all like the dynamic and high-quality office environment here. Recently, affected by the epidemic, we can only work online from home, but the pressure of rent is still very great for us startups. Fortunately, Jintou Plaza took the initiative to reduce the rent for us, which made everyone very excited, as if the big stone that was pressed on the body disappeared in an instant. " Wang Shuang, head of personnel department of Yunxi Technology (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. said.
It is understood that Jintou Plaza, as a creative incubation space for college students and start-up teams, has attracted a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises to work in recent years. At present, the owner of Jintou Plaza is a local state-owned enterprise-Tianjin State-owned Capital Investment and Operation Co., Ltd. "The outbreak of the epidemic coincided with the Spring Festival holiday. Considering that many small and medium-sized enterprises in the building may face greater financial pressure and operational difficulties after the holiday, we decided on October 29 to reduce one month's rent for commercial tenants in Jintou Plaza and increase one month's rent-free period for joint office tenants. After the introduction of 21 measures to benefit enterprises in Tianjin, we immediately responded. On the basis of reducing and exempting one month's rent for tenants in the previous period, we added a policy of reducing and exempting two months' rent and halving three months' rent. We hope that through this initiative, we will fully help and support enterprises affected by the epidemic to tide over the difficulties and give play to the role of state-owned enterprises in critical periods. " Zhou Hongbin, chairman of Tianjin State-owned Capital Investment and Operation Co., Ltd. said.
Dong Dengxin pointed out that rent reduction has played a good role in alleviating the higher housing prices and rents in first-and second-tier cities. If more intermediaries and large owners can reduce or exempt rents appropriately, it will be of great help to the subsequent economic recovery growth of small and medium-sized owners. "Individual landlords own their own houses. Many people are paying off their monthly mortgages, and some families expect the rent of rented houses to become a source of livelihood. This part of the owners' willingness to reduce rents may be a little weaker. However, if the whole society makes arrangements such as rent reduction and deferment on a large scale, it will have a demonstration effect. The government and society should continue to encourage this transitional arrangement. " He said.