Starting today, real-estate brokers are required to provide prospective buyers with more comprehensive information, including records of any unnatural deaths that may have occurred on the property, Deputy Minister of the Interior Chen Chwen-jing (陳純敬) said yesterday.
The number of items on the checklist for real-estate brokers is to increase from 90 to about 200, Chen said.
One of the major changes is the requirement for full disclosure of any murders, suicides or death by carbon monoxide poisoning that occurred under the current seller’s ownership, he said.
Real-estate brokers are also required to provide prospective buyers with detailed information pertaining to the site and its environs, Chen said.
For example, if they are listing a house for sale, they will have to state whether it has any visible defects, list the direction it faces, and detail the facilities and structures within a 300m radius, the ministry said.
The list of surrounding structures should include supermarkets, schools, police stations, administrative agencies, stadiums, airports, power stations, temples, funeral parlors, cemeteries, incinerators, garbage dumps and gasoline stations, the ministry said.
In the case of prefabricated houses, real-estate brokers must provide records of any flooding within 300m of the property in the past five years, Chen said.
HB Housing (住商不動產) real-estate analyst Jessica Hsu (徐佳馨) said that the new regulations would prolong the transaction period and could lead to disputes.
For instance, it would be difficult to find out whether there had been any murders in a house listed for sale, Hsu said.
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