During the epidemic prevention period, many landlords and renters reached rent reduction, rent-free and rent-deferred arrangements.

During the epidemic prevention period, many landlords and renters reached rent reduction, rent-free and rent-deferred arrangements-

Rent relief to tide over the difficulties

Recently, in order to effectively curb the spread of COVID-19 epidemic, various places have extended the Spring Festival holiday to minimize the gathering of people. Relevant measures will inevitably affect many businesses with offline customers as the main body, such as catering, entertainment, individual merchants and so on. 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 together. With the deepening of national epidemic prevention and control, more and more landlords and renters have reached the arrangement of rent reduction, rent exemption and rent postponement, with a long-term view to protect the economic vitality of China.

Whether to reduce or not, each has its own difficulties.

Doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control 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'm ready to look for a job or find a job after the results come out. However, due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, these plans cannot be continued, and funds are 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 reduce 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 increasing rents.

Xiaoqing Zeng, a citizen of Shenzhen, has several properties for rent. When talking about rent reduction, he said that rent reduction for tenants in special periods is a win-win approach, which can help tenants who have not been reworked for the time being and have financial difficulties to take a break. "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 make a living, then rent reduction will inevitably bring pressure to them. For example, some houses are long-term, the rent has already been paid, and there is no way to change them in the short term; In some places, it is impossible for landlords to reach an agreement. Landlords who want to reduce rents are afraid that reckless actions will affect other landlords in the same area. So this matter still depends on personal strength and ideological consciousness. Like our family, the main source of income is work, and the rent is only part of it, so we plan 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. " Xiaoqing Zeng said.

Faced with the impact of the epidemic, local governments have introduced measures to encourage landlords to appropriately reduce rents. Among them, Shandong Province proposed that small and medium-sized enterprises that lease the operating properties of state-owned enterprises can reduce or halve the rent of 1-3 months; Chongqing Real Estate Association issued a proposal to the city's leasing industry, suggesting that landlords should appropriately reduce rents; Hangzhou, Zhejiang encourages landlords to reduce rents for tenants. For those who are rent-free for more than two months, the government gives property tax and urban land use tax relief according to the number of rent-free months ... These measures make 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 most important impact of the epidemic on the economy is reflected in two aspects. First, the normal production and operation order has been affected, and it is difficult for some enterprises to return to work on time. Second, psychologically and expected, it will bring greater impact to industrial and commercial operators.

It is worth noting that many leasing companies or owners are taking the initiative to help tenants tide over the difficulties.

Country Garden Tonghu Science and Technology Town Park in Huizhou City, Guangdong Province has established a group prevention and control mechanism with companies within its jurisdiction to assist in epidemic prevention. At the same time, it voluntarily reduced the venue rent and property management fee for one month for shops in the park, reduced the property management fee for enterprises entering the park for one month, and provided 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 enterprises in the park to carry out the declaration of various procedures for returning to work and the investigation of personnel returning to work, and continuously strengthen the temperature detection and disinfection work in the park to ensure the safety of personnel in the park.

"The whole country United to curb the epidemic, and the enterprises in the park delayed the resumption of work to effectively prevent and control the epidemic, which did bring a lot of operational 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 the difficulties with everyone, become a solid dependence of enterprises entering the park, and make due contributions to society. " Xiang Junbo, assistant to the 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 increased their support for Wuhan, opened free posts in Wuhan for medical staff to live in, and reduced the monthly rent for free tenants in Wuhan by 50%. 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 introduce free preferential measures such as flexible lease renewal, service fee reduction, upgrade disinfection and cleaning, and assistance in baggage delivery; Provide temporary resettlement houses for tenants who cannot return to the rented 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 casually.

At the same time, Vanke Commercial, Wanda Commercial Management, Longhu Group, China Jinmao, Sanya International Duty Free, OCT Group and other dozens of housing enterprises. It also announced rent reduction measures to varying degrees and chose to tide over the difficulties with merchants. Among them, Poly Development Commercial Company quickly made the deployment action of tenant rent reduction support, and reduced some rents for the settled merchants in its 22 shopping centers, and some "tax-free cities" became "rent-free cities". During the Spring Festival in CR Vanguard, the rents and property management fees of stores all over the country will be exempted, benefiting about14,000 merchants nationwide, with a business area of about184,000 square meters and a reduction of about130 million yuan.

Pay attention to economic vitality

For small and micro enterprises, especially start-ups, reducing the rent of office space is a "timely help" for enterprises.

"We are a project team, graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia, mainly engaged in robot education and programming education. We have been renting in Jintou Plaza for six months, and we all like the vibrant and high-quality office environment here. Recently, affected by the epidemic, I can only work online at 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 was gone in an instant. " Wang Shuang, head of personnel department of Yunxi Technology (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. said.

It is understood that as a creative incubation space for college students and entrepreneurial teams, Jintou Plaza has attracted a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises 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 this epidemic coincides 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, on June 29th, 65438, we decided to reduce the rent for commercial tenants of Jintou Plaza by one month and increase the rent-free period for joint office tenants by one month. After Tianjin 2 1 measures for benefiting enterprises were introduced, we responded immediately. On the basis of reducing or exempting one month's rent for tenants in the previous period, the policy of reducing or exempting two months' rent and halving three months' rent has been added. 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 a critical period. " Zhou Hongbin, chairman of Tianjin State-owned Capital Investment and Operation Co., Ltd. said.

Dong Dengxin pointed out that rent reduction has played a very good role in alleviating the high housing prices and rents in first-and second-tier cities. If more intermediaries and large owners can appropriately reduce or exempt rents, it will be of great help to the subsequent economic recovery and 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 rent may be weaker. However, if the whole society makes large-scale arrangements such as reducing rent and delaying rent, it will have a demonstration effect. The government and society should continue to encourage this transitional arrangement. " He said.