Transaction surge: sellers are worried about falling house prices, and buyers are worried about missing the "last bus"
"Yesterday, a suite had 12 customers to see." A real estate agent in Xicheng District, Beijing told reporters that since the release of the new admission policy, there have been an endless stream of people looking at houses, selling houses and consulting. Statistics from RealData show that during the May Day period, the volume of second-hand housing transactions in Xicheng District of Beijing increased by more than 100% month-on-month and year-on-year.
At the end of April, Xicheng District of Beijing issued a new education policy. Since July 3rd, this year, families who buy houses have stopped enrolling, and all of them have enrolled in the school district or adjacent school districts by means of "multi-school scribing". So far, all six districts in Beijing have clearly adopted the method of "multi-school dicing" to enroll students.
Once the policy was announced, the quiet second-hand housing market began to fluctuate during the epidemic. Desheng School District House and Financial Street School District House are the two most sought after school districts in Xicheng District by real estate agents. Only half a day after the policy was released, 8 sets of one-bedroom apartments in Yuxiang Primary School, a well-known school district in Desheng School District, were newly listed, with the cheapest listing of 7.45 million yuan.
In the Financial Street School District, Hongmiao Primary School is the counterpart of the experimental middle school affiliated to Beijing Normal University. At present, the housing in the opposite school district is more than 6,543.8+0.9 million per square meter, and the house with a total price of only over 50 square meters10 million is sold quickly.
A number of real estate agents said that the increase in transaction volume was caused by the anxiety of buyers and sellers: the owners of the school district were worried that the regional advantages would no longer exist, and the house prices might drop sharply and they were eager to sell; Parents who buy a house are worried about "multi-school dicing" in the future. They are not sure about going to a prestigious school and want to catch the "last bus" quickly.
In Shanghai, the reporter visited and found that the sales unit price of school districts with better counterparts has also risen. The primary school affiliated to East China Normal University is the first echelon key primary school in Putuo District, Shanghai. The first village and the second village of East China Normal University were originally limited to the internal sales of faculty and staff. From July 20 18 to now, the house price has risen from 60,000 yuan per square meter to 83,000 yuan.
Mr. Li, 35, spent more than 5 million yuan to buy a set of 50 square meters of "old broken small" for his son to attend the primary school affiliated to East China Normal University. "We are willing to sacrifice for our children. Just buy a degree indicator and sell it when you run out. " He said.
In Shenzhen, driven by the overall rise of the property market, the school districts are also rising. According to the website of Zhongyuan Real Estate, the average transaction price of second-hand houses in Shenzhen rose by 5.76% in April, up by 14.84% year-on-year.
A real estate agent in Baihua District, Futian District, Shenzhen said that taking Guocheng Garden as an example, the transaction price of a one-bedroom apartment with an area of 44 square meters was 6.5438+0.05 million yuan in March this year, while the transaction price of a house with the same area was 6.5438+0.05 million yuan in February last year.
Li, chief researcher of Guangdong Housing Policy Research Center, said that housing prices in school districts have risen rapidly this year, which is related to the impact of the epidemic on the economy; Although the housing in the school district is old, poorly equipped and has poor living experience, it is still regarded as a safe investment by some speculators.
Multi-school scribing, lottery, and collectivization of prestigious schools have diluted the concept of school districts.
In recent years, many places have adopted the principle of "admission to the nearest school", which has led to the rising price of school districts and has gradually become an educational investment tool. There have been many strange phenomena that 10 square meters of corridor rooms, garages and diaojiao buildings sell for millions of yuan. The abnormal development of school districts has turned compulsory education in some places into "fighting for fathers" and "fighting for houses".
At present, the state regards the balanced and fair development of compulsory education as an important goal. Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other cities have taken measures to dilute the concept of school district housing.
Beijing has expanded the coverage of quality education resources by means of group running schools and district system reform; The sixth district of the city has defined measures such as "one degree in six years" and "multi-school scribing" to cool down the school district. Shanghai vigorously promotes the collectivization of running schools, and through policies such as public and private recruitment and private lottery, it prevents the screening from becoming younger and promotes the fair and balanced development of educational resources. According to the regulations of many districts in Guangzhou, if there is no self-owned house in the city, you can take the rented house as the only place of residence in the district to enter the school nearby.
Some experts believe that the gradual implementation of policies such as "multi-school scribing" is a new starting point for the equalization of compulsory education, and school districts with "high fever" for many years are expected to cool down.
Wang Ming, deputy director of the Education Development Research Center of the Ministry of Education, believes that in the past, the policy of "single school dicing" strengthened the scarcity of high-quality educational resources, and the determination of the dicing scope was arbitrary, which caused a lot of controversy. The implementation of "multi-school dicing" can promote fairness by increasing selectivity, make students with average family economic strength more likely to enter high-quality schools, and objectively curb excessive speculation in school districts.
Chen Jie, director of the Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Research Center of Shanghai Jiaotong University, said that the incentive to invest in school districts can be weakened through "multi-school scribing" and irregular degree rotation.
Balanced development, increase high-quality resources and improve the transparency of distribution.
Many experts believe that in the near future, the policy of "multi-school scribing" will help promote education equity, implement the policy of "housing and not speculating", and further cool down the speculation of school districts; In the long run, the "premium" effect of high-quality educational resources attached to the concept of school district housing cannot be completely eliminated in the short term. The government needs to further strengthen balanced development, increase high-quality resources and meet the educational needs of the masses.
She Yu, a researcher at the Social Development Research Department of the State Council Development Research Center, said that after years of efforts, China has made positive progress in promoting education equity. But on the whole, the allocation of educational resources among urban and rural areas, regions, schools and groups is not balanced enough, and there is still a big gap between the conditions for running schools and the level of teachers. Especially in the compulsory education stage, the problem of "being educated" has been basically solved, but the contradiction of "being eager to learn" is prominent.
She Yu suggested that we should continue to increase investment in compulsory education and further improve the policies that have been introduced, such as scribing and entering schools nearby. At the same time, expand the coverage of quality education resources, narrow the gap between regions, urban and rural areas and schools as soon as possible, eliminate the phenomenon of school choice, and effectively reduce the pressure on family education expenditure brought about by school choice.
Ma, vice president of the Research Branch of China Private Education Association, said that in the compulsory education stage, not only public education will be more balanced, but private schools will also meet the overall requirements of achieving balance, and they can no longer enjoy the policy of free enrollment, and cross-regional enrollment will be brought into unified management. In addition, we should pay attention to the rational distribution of high-quality education resources in cities, and don't concentrate too much on certain areas, so that more students can find their favorite schools at their doorsteps.
Some parents worry that the opaque allocation of degree resources after "multi-school dicing" will also lead to injustice. Wang Ming believes that the implementation of "multi-school scribing" should ensure the openness and transparency of the process and prevent the black-box operation from having adverse social impact.
At the same time, Chen Jie and other experts pointed out that the added value of quality education is an important part of real estate prices. Even in developed countries, the housing prices in good school districts are usually higher. Therefore, the concept of school district housing can be diluted, but it will not disappear. The key is not to push the house price too high, which is extremely distorted.
The front-line teacher of a well-known school in Haidian District of Beijing admits that some parents spend a lot of money to buy school districts in order to invest in their children's education, with good intentions. But after all, the school is an external force, and the core of education quality is the family environment and the children's own efforts.