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Ministry of Construction, Housing Registration Measures
建设部房屋登记办法

Housing registration to protect purchasers of pre-sold housing premises.

Date: May 2008

CLP Reference: 4100/08.02.15

Promulgated: 15 February 2008

Effective: 01 July 2008

Keywords (click to search): [housing registration] [pre-sold housing premises] [housing register] [housing title certificate] [pre-registration] [mortgage] [housing ownership] [commodity premises] [common owners]

Promulgated: February 15 2008

Effective: July 1 2008

Applicability: The term “housing registration” refers to the recording of rights to housing premises and other particulars that should be recorded by the housing registry on the housing register in accordance with the law (Article 2).

Main Contents: Applications for registration of ownership of commonly-owned housing premises shall be submitted jointly by the common owners. Applications for registration of a change in ownership to commonly-owned housing premises may be submitted by the concerned common owner. However if there is a change to the nature of the common ownership or the shares of the common owners, the registration application shall be submitted jointly by all common owners (Article 13). The housing registry shall, according to the records of the housing register, fill in and issue housing title certificates to the rights holders. Housing title certificates, including the Housing Ownership Certificates and the Certificates of Third Party Rights to the Housing Premises, are proofs of rights to the premises to which the rights holder is entitled (Article 25). In the case of inconsistency between the housing title certificate or the registration certificate and the records of the housing register, the records of the housing register shall prevail unless there is evidence to prove that the housing register truly contains errors (Article 26).

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