Only institutions within the administrative area of the city (district) and county level have the right to handle real estate licenses, and other institutions have no right to handle real estate.

Lishui, formerly known as Chuzhou, is a prefecture-level city with the largest land area under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province. It is located in the southwest of Zhejiang Province, bordering Wenzhou in the southeast, Nanping and Ningde in Fujian Province in the southwest, Quzhou in the northwest, Jinhua in the north and Taizhou in the northeast.