1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 359 Real Estate Development

On a per capita basis, the medical and educational resources enjoyed by the naturalized people in the Shengli Port area are much higher than those of Ming Dynasty and other contemporaneous empires, and the economic cost for the naturalized people to enjoy these treatments is very low, even almost free. It also reduces the cost of living of the local naturalized people in a disguised form, allowing them to use their salary income for other aspects of improving their living standards.Some naturalized residents with higher positions, stable income and certain savings have begun to subscribe for affordable housing specially built for naturalized residents.

The design and construction of affordable housing organized by the Ministry of Construction has completed hundreds of units since the construction began at the beginning of the year.This includes the tube-building apartment sold to the inside of the group. Most of the hundreds of people staying in Shengli Port have moved into new apartments in batches from prefabricated houses after several lottery selections.In order to avoid unnecessary troubles, the members' welfare rooms are well-decorated in a uniform standard, and the furniture and sanitary ware in the room are all custom-made in large quantities.The building has realized hot water and electricity supply, and the indoor lighting is installed with LED lamps purchased before the crossing. This kind of long-life lamps can be used in the future when the crossing group has the ability to produce incandescent lamps by itself.

Although the interior space of these apartments is limited, each household is only more than 20 square meters, and hot water and electricity are supplied for a limited time every day, but it allows members to feel the familiar feeling of living in a cement box before time travel , The privacy of each household is also far better than the collective dormitory where many people live together.Although there is still a gap from the local tyrant environment that everyone expects in the deep house compound, it has been greatly improved compared to the prefabricated house that I lived in for a year.Besides, even the high-ranking executive committee members also live in this kind of dormitory building, and the members really have nothing to complain about.

The real estate project has been in the planning of the Ministry of Construction for a long time. As a former real estate developer, Tao Donglai is now the leader of the executive committee and the head of the Ministry of Construction. He knows that meeting the rigid demand of the people for housing will help maintain Social and economic stability, so he attaches no less importance to real estate projects than military construction.In addition to the welfare housing built to improve the living environment of the members, Tao Donglai will naturally not let go of the opportunity to sell real estate projects to ordinary people.

The Executive Committee implemented a strict land collective ownership system in the areas under its administration, so it is basically impossible for the local naturalized people to complete the purchase of land and build houses on their own, and their existing houses belong to the Executive Committee and its subordinate units , the people themselves do not own their property rights.Under such a background environment, the only way for naturalized people to obtain their own real estate in this area is to buy official commercial real estate.

In July, the Ministry of Construction tentatively launched two affordable houses for local naturalized residents with a total of [-] households, which immediately caused a wave of panic buying.This kind of affordable housing for naturalized residents looks almost the same as the welfare housing of Transiters in appearance. It is also a two-story small building with [-] households in each building and a masonry and cement structure.However, its interior is just a simplified version of the welfare housing, without hot water, electricity and other supplies, no independent bathroom space, no flat floor tiles, and no painted walls. It basically looks like the rough housing of later generations.

But these are not a big problem for the naturalized people. There is no hot water, but everyone has long been used to the collective bathhouse, and it is free, so there is nothing wrong with it.If there is no toilet, the problem can be solved by putting a toilet in the house. As for high-end toilets, ordinary naturalized people must not be able to afford them.Electricity is useless to the naturalized people, and electric lights are not needed for lighting. At present, the lighting equipment of the naturalized people is mainly kerosene lamps. Those with better conditions can use horse lanterns with glass covers. There is a calcium carbide lamp that has just started to be produced by the Ministry of Industry and is still in an internal trial state.

Calcium carbide lamps are not high-tech gadgets. Simply put, calcium carbide reacts with water to generate flammable acetylene gas, which relies on acetylene to burn to emit light.This kind of lamp was widely used in the 21th century when power resources were not yet developed. The lamps hung on the old manpower rickshaws were calcium carbide lamps.Even in the [-]st century, because of its combustion principle, the color change of its flame will provide a warning of lack of oxygen, and it is still used as a must-have item for miner's lamps and cavers.Its light-emitting principle is very simple, and the process of making pig iron calcium carbide lamps is not complicated. At present, calcium carbide can be prepared in the coking process, and the raw materials are also sufficiently guaranteed.This thing has basically no disadvantages except for a little smell when it burns, but as long as the indoor ventilation is good, this is not a big problem. The brightness of its lighting completely exceeds that of oil lamps and candles. The next step of the Ministry of Industry is to use this as a civilian direction. The new products are mass-produced and exported as fist products.

Regardless of the differences in these objective conditions, just being able to live in the same house as the Haihan chiefs is enough to make the naturalized people excited.Those who have the financial conditions to apply for affordable housing are basically the cadre class among the naturalized people, and this class, as a vested interest in the development and growth of Haihan, has almost become Haihan culture after a long period of indoctrination and brainwashing. The diehard members of Haihan regard the chiefs of Haihan as omnipotent existences, and intentionally or unintentionally imitate the living habits of the bosses.

Cutting hair and making clothes easier, learning some propaganda slogans, these are very superficial things, even without the identity of a cadre, they can also be imitated, which is not enough to reflect the difference and sense of superiority.However, this kind of residence that is exactly the same as that of the bosses is not available to everyone. This is the symbol of status and class within the system.If you use the words of Haihan's chiefs, this is a force!Living in this kind of place is completely different from living in a boat-shaped house with bamboo and wood structure. Judging from the current insignificant social differentiation in Sanya, it can be said that this safe house is the most intuitive and effective social status symbol.

Of course, this kind of house is not without its shortcomings. From the perspective of Chinese tradition, at least there must be a courtyard to look like a home. The living space of this Anju house is too small. If there are two generations , living seems a bit crowded, we must consider household division.But the problem now is not the size of the house, but that there is no option to build a house by yourself in the Haihan area.

Although foreign merchants can enclose land and build houses, the land still belongs to the executive committee and is only used on a lease basis. To put it bluntly, it is hard to say who owns the house.However, the Anju houses sold by the Ministry of Construction have property rights that outsiders dream of but cannot obtain. They can be transferred and inherited. Prestige's endorsement.

When the Ministry of Construction sells this batch of affordable housing, there is another threshold that cannot be ignored, that is, there are clear restrictions on the identity of the applicants, who must have been naturalized for more than one year, and the labor class must not be lower than the third level. Personnel are eligible to apply for this affordable housing.This basically explains the status of affordable housing from an official point of view—those who are eligible to apply for purchase are basically the upper-class people in the local naturalized society, which is enough to make ordinary people feel envious.

Of course, if you want to obtain this fixed asset, not everyone can afford the economic costs that need to be paid.Or to be more precise, judging from the income level of the naturalized people, the vast majority of them cannot pay off the official house price in one lump sum.

The Ministry of Construction sets the price of affordable housing at 260 yuan per household. If this price is used as an analogy, it has actually far exceeded the real estate price level in Yacheng. The yard bought by the Yacheng Office only cost 500 taels of silver. It was more than [-] square meters, and the courtyard of seven main houses, but this money could not even buy two affordable houses in Shengli Port, and the gap was huge.Of course, even a naturalized citizen with such financial resources would never exchange the negotiable notes in his hand for silver to buy a house in Yacheng—even if he could buy a bigger house there, it is almost impossible to find it in Victory Harbor. It is even more impossible to have a "cadre" official position that is not in the Ming system.

Two hundred yuan per household may not seem high, but it is definitely not a sum that ordinary naturalized people can easily afford. Even senior naturalized cadres like Yu Dashan and Zhang Tiangui have an average monthly income of only ten to ten yuan. Between 15 yuan, and then excluding living expenses and daily consumption, it is difficult for them to pay off the house at one time with their savings for a year.

However, Zhang Tiangui finally defeated his old rival Yu Dashan in this competition, and became the first person among the local naturalized people to successfully apply for the purchase, and bought two houses at once.This is also due to the fact that his family has a large family, five sons and himself have a total of six labor forces, and the monthly income is quite considerable.

And Yu Dashan, like other applicants, chose the low-interest housing loan provided by "Haihan Bank".Since these people do not have any real assets that can be mortgaged, the final nature of the collateral is somewhat special-their personal labor rating points.If they fail to repay the loan on time and in quantity, their personal labor points will be deducted according to the corresponding proportion, and the labor grade may be lowered due to insufficient points. In extreme cases, "Haihan Bank" will even come forward Take back the safe house.

Of course, Yu Dashan and others dared to boldly choose loans to buy houses, mainly because of the credit of "Haihan Bank" and the low interest rates announced by it.In the eyes of naturalized people like Yu Dashan, the annual interest rate of 10% loan is considered generous. You must know that the monthly interest rate they used to borrow money from some wealthy households has far exceeded the "Haihan Bank" Annual interest level.Calculated based on the income of the fourth-level laborers and naturalized cadres, as long as they live a little frugally, it is not difficult to pay off the loan, which is not too much, within one or two years, so home buyers sign the loan contract Appears to be stress-free.

According to the statistics of the civil affairs department, there were more than 270 naturalized workers at the fourth level, more than [-] workers at the third level, and more than [-] people who had the qualifications to apply for the naturalization.And the vast majority of people in the middle have gone through the purchase procedures, so the first batch of [-] houses that the Ministry of Construction withdrew from were ordered without any suspense. The third-level workers held a lottery ceremony to determine the lucky ones who are eligible to settle in the housing.

This wave of home buying has become so popular that it has even attracted the attention of the outside world.Two well-informed people, Wei Ping and Luo Shengdong, approached Tao Donglai several times, trying to get the executive committee to let go of the threshold for selling houses, so that they could also have the opportunity to participate in the purchase of real estate.

Since these two guys became Haihan's spokespersons with all their hearts, their income has been rising steadily, and they also have some extra money on hand.The two had long expected to buy property and houses in Shengli Harbor, but the land policy here made them feel that renting land to build houses was a little unreliable. People could build commercial facilities and rely on their income to make money, but if It is not cost-effective to build a courtyard, and the land is not his own.Now that the affordable housing policy came out, the two immediately smelled the commercial flavor of it, so they came to the door on their own.Two hundred yuan per household may not be a small amount in the eyes of the naturalized people, and even requires a loan to complete it, but it is not a problem at all in the eyes of Luo Shengdong and Wei Ping, two people who rely on speculation to make money from the land. If the executive committee is willing to sell, they even thought about raising funds to buy ten sets and eight sets at one go, and then slowly increase the price and resell them later. Strict purchase restrictions established by the number of people, and high additional taxes are also levied on the resale of real estate.

For the development of commercial real estate, Tao Donglai has long considered a comprehensive consideration. The affordable housing launched for the naturalized people will not be sold to outsiders, so even if the two of them wear their mouths, Tao Donglai will not The meaning of loose mouth.

However, Tao Donglai pointed out another way for them—in the Sanya Xincheng District centered on Sanya Xingang, the Ministry of Construction and "Qiong Lianfa" will jointly launch high-end real estate properties for sale to non-naturalized persons.If they want to buy real estate in the Sanya area, it is best to buy this local real estate.

When "Joan Lianfa" was established, Schneider had already disclosed to the shareholders the operation mode of the real estate project.However, due to the limited size of the construction team under the Ministry of Construction, they have been busy with the construction of internal welfare housing and affordable housing, so the "Qiong Lianfa" project was put on hold.It was not until summer, under the urging of the shareholders of "Qiong Lianfa", that the Ministry of Construction finally came up with a development plan and submitted it to the executive committee for approval.

Shareholders are not in a hurry to earn money from this project. At present, "Qiong Lianfa" has more than a dozen projects that are in progress or are about to be carried out, and the fastest will be able to see the income before the end of the year. In fact, not many people are optimistic about the not-so-fast real estate, and even many shareholders still doubt the profit prospects of this project.However, with the overall development of the Sanya area, the shareholders also realized that the development of this area is bright, and they gradually began to have the willingness to buy properties locally. It is definitely not possible to rent land to build houses. It is built on its own land, but this conflicts with Haihan's land collective ownership.

The solution proposed by the executive committee is that the Ministry of Construction and "Qiong Lianfa" jointly develop real estate projects. In this way, shareholders and wealthy businessmen can obtain land ownership by purchasing real estate—you can’t Buy the land alone, but you can buy the commercial real estate on the land to obtain the ownership of the land, which is also a policy flexibility.Of course, the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Construction will clarify the nature of land use in the house purchase contract, and land ownership cannot be transferred at will, and house buyers don’t have to expect to use this flexible method to buy dozens of acres of land and develop it on their own.

At the beginning of August, during the period when militiamen crossed the sea to attack Hoi An in South Vietnam, the Ministry of Construction launched the first commercial real estate "Sanya Garden" for sale to foreigners on the banks of the Linchun River in the new city of Sanya.The main body of this real estate project is divided into two parts: the villa area and the garden house. Buyers can obtain the property rights approved by the Haihan Executive Committee, including the ownership of the corresponding land.

The garden house is a three-story building, with four households on each floor, and a total of twelve households in each building.Except that there is no electricity supply, other hot water, bathroom, and interior decoration are all available, and equipped with locally produced glass windows. The living conditions are almost the same as the welfare houses in Transit, and the apartment size is several times larger.Of course, the corresponding price is not cheap. The price of each household starts from 500 taels, and varies according to the floor and orientation.The main sales targets of this kind of house are Luo Shengdong, Wei Ping and some foreign businessmen who are resident in Sanya, satisfying their willingness to purchase a real estate here without spending too much money.

If this price had been placed two years ago, it would have been enough to scare Luo Shengdong and Wei Ping away directly, because even Yacheng has no real estate at this price, let alone a building without an independent courtyard.Even in Guangzhou, this amount of money is enough to buy a nice small courtyard.If someone had been hawking such a nondescript property at such a price, everyone would have thought he was crazy.

But today is different from the past. Now that you can buy a property at such a price on the territory of the Haihan people, although the price is a bit expensive, quite a few people still express their intention to buy it.The sea merchants bought a shipment of Haihan products in Shengli Port, and sold them back to the mainland. The profits they got were enough to buy a property here.Luo Shengdong is currently the biggest salt dealer in Qiongzhou Island, and 500 taels of silver is not a big amount to him.If it wasn't for the desperate opposition of the old man in Yacheng, he would even have the idea of ​​buying a villa here directly at a high price.

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