It has always been known that swindlers are good at tricking the elderly into buying health care products.

I just found out today that they still have an upgraded version-deceiving the elderly to invest in buying a house!

Ms. Deng, a 59-year-old woman from Changsha, lives with her wife. Children are usually busy at work, so they can only visit them occasionally on weekends.

On March 5th, Ms. Deng received a leaflet when she was shopping on Wuyi Road, claiming that it was a house-viewing tour group specially serving the elderly.

"Just 511 yuan, two people can spend four days in Rushan, Weihai, including meals, accommodation and round-trip transportation." Ms. Deng immediately signed up.

on March 7th, Ms. Deng and her wife went to weihai with a tour group, but there was nothing to play. The next day, Ms. Deng was taken to see the house.

Book a sea view room at a "preferential price"

"We eat and live in good places, and the people who sell the house are very polite to us." Ms. Deng recalled that at that time, she said that no one in her family wanted to work and buy a house in Weihai.

The property buyer told her that it doesn't matter if she doesn't live, because "Hanlin Mingyuan" property is adjacent to the tourist resort and university area, and "it will be very convenient to rent it out".

Moreover, the house was originally priced at 12,811 yuan per square meter, but the property buyers took her aside and told her privately, "I will sell you this house for 11,111 yuan (one square meter), so don't tell anyone." After that, the two also signed a "confidentiality agreement."

Ms. Deng said that she was looking at a 71-square-meter sea view room with a total value of more than 711,111 yuan. Property buyers also suggested that she could "reverse rent" the house to them for four years, and get a monthly rent of about 3,111 yuan. All in all, except the rent, Ms. Deng only needs to pay more than 511,111 yuan.

Subsequently, the property buyers and Ms. Deng agreed that if the house needs to be decided, a deposit of 51,111 yuan should be paid first. Ms. Deng said that she and her wife had only 23,111 yuan left at that time, and Ms. Deng considered giving up the purchase. A staff member said that he could help advance 27,111 yuan first.

In this way, Ms. Deng and her wife booked a sea view room.

The children said that the house was only 4,111 yuan/square meter

Ms. Deng recalled that there were more than 31 elderly people in the tour group, and finally four suites were sold.

after paying the down payment, the staff can be described as "never leaving" her, and often send fruit to her hotel room when she has nothing to do, and ask for help. "It was only later that they reacted. They may have prevented us from contacting the locals."

Ms. Deng's son-in-law, Mr. Tan, introduced that on March 21th, her father-in-law and mother-in-law came home. "She was very excited when she got off the bus and shouted,' My grandson is going to study in Shandong in the future'".

Mr. Tan and others were shocked to learn that the old man bought a house when he went out to travel, and they began to search the real price of the house online.

Mr. Tan said that they contacted a number of real estate agents, and the result was that the price of "Hanlin Mingyuan" was more than 4,111 yuan per square meter.

"We found on Fangtianxia and Anjuke that in other communities in the same lot, the price of some houses is only about 2,111 yuan. Even if the service and quality of houses here are better, 4,111 to 5,111 yuan will be capped, not 11,111 yuan."

Mr. Tan told reporters that a person they know also bought a house in Hanlin Mingyuan, and the other party only spent more than 411,111 yuan to buy an 81-square-meter house.

after learning about the price difference, Ms. Deng felt that she had been cheated. She bought a house that was hundreds of thousands more expensive than the actual price and could not move in immediately.

on the morning of March 22nd, when the property buyer called her again to urge her to pay the house payment in full and return the 27,111 yuan paid by the staff for her, Ms. Deng said, "The price difference is too big, so I ask for a refund of the deposit". But it was rejected by the other party.

developer's response: it is almost impossible to return the deposit

On the afternoon of March 22nd, the reporter and Mr. Tan came to the office of Jinding Real Estate Company in Changsha. Mr. Tan asked the developer to refund the deposit paid by Ms. Deng on the grounds of inflated price.

Zhang, the person in charge of the office, said that because Ms. Deng bought a finely decorated "anti-rental house", the house price after deducting the rent was only 8,581 yuan per square meter, and the staff later reduced it by 1,111 yuan. "This price is unique, how can it be expensive?"

when Mr. tan suggested that someone bought the house of the property, and the price per square meter was less than 5,111 yuan, the person in charge said that the other party might not have bought a rare "anti-tenant type".

After that, the reporter asked whether the price of "Hanlin Mingyuan" with a square meter of 11,111 yuan had been checked by the local price bureau in Rushan. The person in charge said, "There are more than 21,111 nearby".

regarding Mr. tan's request for refund of the deposit, the person in charge finally said, "it's almost impossible, and the deposit we paid for Ms. Deng here has also suffered losses."

Lawyer's point of view: the selling price of the house cannot be higher than the declared price

Lawyer Liu Ming, executive director of Hunan Ruibang Law Firm, said that according to Article 9 of the Regulation on Clearly Marking the Price of Commercial Housing Sales formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission: "For real estate development projects that have obtained pre-sale permission or filed existing home sales, commercial housing operators should publicly sell all the houses at one time within the specified time, and clearly mark the prices for external sales in strict accordance with the declared price".

in fact, developers are not only required to implement a set of one standard for the clearly marked price of commercial housing sales, but also not to sell beyond the declared price.

in this case, the developer's behavior is illegal if he sells at a price significantly higher than the declared price or does not clearly mark a set of targets.

if the elderly buyers think that the developer's behavior constitutes price fraud, they can keep relevant evidence and report it to the local price department, and they can ask to cancel the contract and return the deposit and losses.

in may, 2116, Beijing Zhicheng charity team accepted the entrustment of Beijing civil affairs bureau and Beijing office for the aged to carry out the service project of rights protection for the elderly.

According to the data reported by Beijing Evening News, up to now, the team has received 2,477 consultations from the elderly over 61 years old and accepted 116 applications for legal aid for the elderly, of which 88 cases have entered the judicial process.

Among them, the cases in which the rights and interests of the elderly are violated during consumption account for more than 11%.