After signing the house purchase contract, if the floor area ratio, green space ratio and construction drawing design of the interior decoration project are changed, the buyers also have the right to change or terminate the contract, that is, return the house. On June 13, it was learned from Ningbo Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau that in order to guide and standardize the change of commercial housing sales contracts and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of both parties to the contract, especially the buyers, the bureau recently issued the Notice on Further Improving the Management of Commercial Housing Sales Contracts.

According to the notice, after the signing of the commercial housing sales contract, with the approval of the competent urban and rural planning department or in accordance with legal procedures, if the planning permission contents such as the planned use, area, floor area ratio, green space ratio, infrastructure, public services and other supporting facilities, construction engineering construction drawing design documents, and interior decoration engineering construction drawing design documents of the fully renovated house are changed, and may affect the quality or use function of the commercial housing, the real estate development enterprise shall promptly notify the purchaser in writing or in accordance with the contract, and the purchaser has the right to serve the notice.

The paper finds that in the current Measures for the Administration of Commercial Housing Sales, only the structural type, apartment type, space size and orientation of commercial housing change, and other circumstances that affect the quality or use function of commercial housing as agreed by the parties to the contract, the real estate development enterprise should notify the buyer in writing, and the buyer has the right to choose to change or terminate the contract within a reasonable time or within the time agreed in the contract from the date of the notice.

In addition, the notice also pointed out that real estate development enterprises should perform all obligations stipulated in the commercial housing sales contract in good faith, and may not exempt themselves from the main responsibility, aggravate the responsibility of the purchaser or exclude the main rights of the purchaser in the form of standard terms.