Shops are real estate specially used for business activities, and are places where operators provide commodity transactions, services and experiences to consumers. Broadly speaking, the concept of shops includes not only retail business, but also real estate used for entertainment, catering and tourism, profitable exhibition halls, stadiums, bathrooms, and commercial trading places with physical buildings such as banks and securities.

Transfer is the process of changing something belonging to one owner into another owner through normal procedures. The buyers and sellers of real estate put into use in accordance with the provisions on house transfer and transfer shall sign real estate sales contracts. The text of the contract can be a model text formulated by the Housing and Land Administration Bureau or a self-made contract.

If a self-made contract is adopted, the parties concerned shall entrust a legal service institution recognized by the Municipal Real Estate Bureau to conduct pre-trial before applying for transfer, and the legal service institution shall put forward pre-qualified opinions on the self-made contract that meets the requirements.