Shenzhen targets illegal property ads
(Shenzhen daily)
Updated: 2005-04-13 10:57

Shenzhen government launched a one-month citywide campaign to eliminate misleading real estate advertising Tuesday.

The city's real estate management and industry and commerce administration authorities jointly sent four teams to inspect all property developers in the city's six districts to find out if they have violated regulations.

The city's land resources and real estate management bureau publicized the details of 18 categories of misleading real estate advertisements at the end of March.

The city's property developers were given 10 days, beginning from April 1 and ending Monday, to fix advertisements.

"When the amnesty ended, we received a total of 47 complaints from the public, which concerned misleading real estate advertising, poor housing quality and dishonest property intermediaries," said Li Dong, vice director general of the city's land resources and real estate management bureau.

"We will investigate those developers or advertisers implied first and then expand our inspection to all real estate property developers in the city," Li said.

When the one-month inspection period is over, the list of property developers who have violated related regulations will be published in local newspapers.

"All property developers who have made transgressions will be required to make rectifications after being punished," Li stressed.