Buyers fear commercial housing presale traps

08:51, October 19, 2012

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The new luxury apartment Zhou bought in downtownBeijing did not bring her a pleasant and comfortable life. Instead, she and her familywere forced to move out after excess levels of formaldehyde were detected in thehouse.

After moving to the apartment in Beijing's Chaoyang district in May, Zhou and her familystarted feeling uncomfortable and fell ill frequently. They decided to move outtemporarily and rent another home.

Professional home inspectors checked the home Zhou bought and found that the levelsof formaldehyde gas emitted by the furniture in her home exceeded normal levels.

She purchased the home about three years ago at a price of more than 100,000 yuan(about 15,867 U.S. dollars) per square meter. The price amounts to the annual incomeof many middle-class people in the capital.

Home buyers have frequently come across quality control problems in new housing, aphenomenon stemming from the practice of using presales to sell new homes beforeconstruction is actually completed.

"The problem is that after buyers pay for their future houses, they cannot monitor theirquality," said Cao Jing, a resident of Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong province.

Cao bought her house in 2009. But when she moved to the new house in 2010, shefound cracks in the walls and a water leak in the bathroom, as well as a problem withthe apartment's electrical wiring.

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