“The contract can be signed online. After the lease start date is unsealed, it must be that the community can move in before it starts to count.” After learning that the reporter of the securities times · e company wanted to rent a house, He Shan, the “second landlord” of Zhangjiang sector in Pudong New Area, enthusiastically introduced the house supply to the reporter and said that he could wait until the seal was unsealed before starting the rent.
In March, real estate leasing transactions in Shanghai gradually stalled due to the epidemic. Recently, with the improvement of the situation, some leasing intermediaries have begun to be “busy”. In particular, the “second landlord”, who holds the vacant housing source, has tried his best to rent the house as soon as possible.
intermediary: Online house viewing, rent after unsealing
Shanghai housing rental market has been very active. Affected by the epidemic, housing rental activities in Shanghai have basically stagnated since March. Since then, some intermediaries have become volunteers in the community, and some have started community group buying. In order to minimize the vacancy of houses, many intermediaries continue to be active in the rental market.
\u3000\u3000“ ×× road × The master bedroom facing south is a single guard, which can be booked in advance and rented after unsealing. ” Since mid April, He Shan, the “second landlord” of Zhangjiang in Pudong New Area, still insists on updating the house availability information in the circle of friends every day.
“As a second landlord”, He Shan rented the house from the original landlord and sublet it to others after decoration and transformation to earn the price difference. He Shan has more than ten houses in his hands after the transformation. Before the closure at the end of March, four of his houses were vacant.
He Shan, who is used to updating the house availability information in his circle of friends every day, thought that after the epidemic was controlled, he could rent the house again soon, but there was no news until mid April.
On April 17, He Shan couldn’t help but start advertising again in his circle of friends. Unable to leave the community, He Shan said he could provide online house viewing services. Even the rent starting date, which has always been “unrelenting”, can be discussed, “if you can move in, you can start to count.”
He said it was an online house viewing, but he Shan just sent a video to the tenant that was taken before the epidemic. After yelling for more than a month, He Shan told reporters that there are interested tenants, but the tenants have not been finalized. “In the past, most houses had no vacancy period. They often booked the next tenant in advance, and someone moved in as soon as they moved out.”
“The cost of getting a house is very high. It costs 4000 yuan to get a one bedroom. If it is transformed into two rooms, it will cost 5000 yuan to rent out. Coupled with the cost of transformation and decoration, the profit of vacant two months is basically taken in.” He Shan said helplessly.
During the closure period, there were many “second landlords” and intermediaries as active as He Shan. At present, the service platforms of Anju and shell are in normal operation in Shanghai. The income of intermediaries is basically linked to the transaction, and the intermediary of shell platform Xiaowan has been working since the epidemic.
Xiao Wan told reporters that they also use the online house viewing mode at present. Many houses have made VR videos, which can be clicked directly. As he is only an intermediary, the starting date of rent needs to be communicated with the owner. Generally, it is negotiated from the time he can move in. “During the epidemic, these are easy to discuss.”
tenant: look, it’s one thing, renting is another
During the epidemic, there were not many people who needed to rent or sublet. In Douban’s “Shanghai rent” group, a large number of posts on subletting and rent seeking are published every day.
Some people have to find a house now because the rent is due and they don’t want to renew it; Some people rented a house in late March, but they had to pay the rent because they didn’t live for a day because of the epidemic. Others came to Shanghai in March to find a job, but stayed in the hotel until now. They want to find a house and move in as soon as possible after unsealing.
Although the complexity of renting a house is much lower than that of buying a house, a simple video is obviously difficult to completely answer the questions in the hearts of tenants. Therefore, the transaction rate of online house viewing during the sealing and control period is not high.
Pudong New Area tenant Xiao Li told reporters that his house expired in early June and is now preparing to find a house. “The agent I knew introduced me to some houses, but I couldn’t go to the scene. After thinking about it, I decided to find it after unsealing. During the epidemic, the rent expired, and it’s not difficult to negotiate with the landlord to extend it.”
Putuo District tenant Xiao Wang also told reporters that he originally planned to move in April, because the epidemic has been delayed until now, and has recently seen several houses online. “The intermediary has always introduced that the house has many advantages. I don’t think it’s necessarily objective. I can only see a rough idea in the video. I’d better see it on the spot after unsealing.”
“Some tenants want to know more about the surrounding facilities, the environment of the community and the neighbors. Of course, this is a very normal requirement, but I can’t understand these during the epidemic, and I can’t take videos for them.” He Shan said helplessly.
Intermediary Xiao Wan also told reporters, “there are more people consulting about renting recently, but except for those who are in a hurry to rent, the transaction is still much more difficult than usual.” He is responsible for a set of rental houses. 17 people have consulted in the last seven days, but they have not rented out. Before the closure in early March, many orders could be traded in the community a week.
Price is also an important factor causing tenants to wait and see. Since 2021, rents in some areas of Shanghai have continued to rise. Some tenants believe that after the epidemic, some people leave Shanghai, which may lead to oversupply of houses and decline in rental prices.
However, Xiao Wan believes that although it is unlikely that the rent will continue to rise sharply, there is little room for decline. “There are many houses coming out in June, but there are more people renting and changing houses. It is basically impossible to have a low price at that time. Because under normal circumstances, the rent in June, July and August is higher than that in other months.”
Under the epidemic situation, the work of community neighborhood committee and property management is very important. In the past, tenants did not have much contact with the property and neighborhood committee, but now, excellent property and neighborhood committee have also become the bonus item of renting.
“The community is still very OK. The property is really manageable. It gives everyone a lot of peace of mind during the epidemic.” “The community is a prevention area, which is inhabited by high-quality young people. During the epidemic, various immortal heads organized group purchase and scientifically distributed them. There have never been any new positive cases due to group purchase.” “10 supplies were sent during the epidemic in the community.” It was introduced when subletting the house.
the rental market is depressed under the epidemic
Affected by multiple factors such as the epidemic, the data of several research institutions showed that the scene of the national housing rental market continued to decline in April.
According to the data of the shell Research Institute, the activity of the leasing market in 40 key cities nationwide showed a cooling trend in April, and the trading volume decreased by 20.4% month on month. The leasing trading volume increased month on month in only 6 cities, and the leasing market decreased month on month in 34 cities.
In April, the rent level of 40 national key cities was 36.3 yuan / m2, and the rent index fell slightly by 0.7% month on month and 1.5% year-on-year; Among them, the rent level of 29 cities fell slightly month on month and 27 cities fell slightly year-on-year.
According to the shell Research Institute, according to the traditional law, the trading volume of the rental market will fall seasonally in April. This year, the epidemic factors are superimposed. The rental market in many places is heating up due to the improvement of the epidemic prevention and control, or cooling down sharply due to the relatively severe situation of epidemic prevention and control.
Zhuge housing search data show that the average listing price of rent in large and medium-sized cities across the country in April was 35.63 yuan / m2 / month, down 0.06% month on month, and the decline narrowed by 0.35 percentage points; The year-on-year increase was 2.88%, and the increase narrowed by 0.43 percentage points.
In April, although the epidemic situation in some cities showed signs of improvement in the middle and early ten days, some cities were repeatedly frustrated or deeply trapped, the state of the rental market was still weak, and the rental level continued to decline. Among the key cities, rents in 28 cities fell and only 11 cities rose.
According to the research report released by anjuke, due to the impact of the epidemic in many parts of the country, the popularity of the rental market fell in April, and the average listing rent of 65 cities in China fell slightly by 1.4% month on month, reaching 30.2 yuan / m2 / month. In April, 50 of the 65 cities across the country saw their listing rents fall.
The performance of the Shanghai market is of particular concern. According to the data of the shell Research Institute, affected by the epidemic, the rental market in Changchun, Shanghai, Harbin, Suzhou and Nantong has cooled significantly. The cooling rate in Changchun and Shanghai exceeded 90%.
According to the research data of anjuke, from the demand side, the heat of rental demand in the Yangtze River Delta region with Shanghai as the core has decreased significantly. At the same time, Kunshan, Suzhou, Nantong and Jiaxing around Shanghai were also affected to some extent, and the heat fell significantly month on month.
For the next market situation, the shell Research Institute believes that under the background of the small-scale rebound of the epidemic, with college graduates entering the rental market one after another, the rental market will show a warming trend in May.
