Housing lawsuits increase greatly

时间：2007-09-07 06:00:06

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Chinanews, Beijing, Sept. 7 – In Beijing, housing price has been soaring in recent years. In 2004, a commercial house in Beijing might be sold at less than 5,000 yuan per square meter (even then, many local residents thought such housing price was already too high). Now, the price has jumped to 14,000 yuan per square meter. Some people even say that currently, houses in Beijing might be even more expensive than houses sold in New York.

 

As the housing price rises day by day, the incidence of house dealers1 breaching3 their contracts by selling their houses to more than one purchasers is also on the rise. Information from the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court shows that during the first eight months of this year, the court had received more than 300 lawsuits4 about housing sales, a number greater than previous years.

 

Most of these lawsuits are related with the housing sales contracts. Sometimes, the contracts are about commercial house sales and at other times, the contracts deal with housing relocation projects. In many cases, the house owners are sued for breaching the contract. In some cases, housing sales agents are charged with selling a house already reserved by someone to another person at a higher price. In the latter case, the housing sales agents' act is prompted by the ever-increasing housing price.

 

“In many cases, the house sellers know that they have breached5 the contract and they might bear related legal liabilities, still they do it in order to make lucrative6 profits. The compensation they need to pay for contract breach2 is far less than the profits they can make,” said Ding Yuxiang, a judge at the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court.

 

In many of these cases, house sellers tend to be the plaintiffs, Ding said. “Because they feel that they suffer some economic losses by selling the house, so the house sellers want to bring the case to court and plead that the judge can nullify the contract. However, in many of these cases, the plaintiffs are also likely to lose the case,” Ding said.

 
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1 dealers 95e592fc0f5dffc9b9616efd02201373     
n.商人( dealer的名词复数 )；贩毒者；毒品贩子；发牌者
参考例句：
  • There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
  • The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败，与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。
2 breach 2sgzw     
n.违反，不履行；破裂；vt.冲破，攻破
参考例句：
  • We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
  • He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
3 breaching 14143775ae503c20f50fd5cc052dd131     
攻破( breach的过去式 )； 破坏，违反
参考例句：
  • The company was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety Act. 这家公司被控违反《卫生安全条例》。
  • Third, an agency can abuse its discretion by breaching certain principles of judge-made law. 第三，行政机关会因违反某些法官制定的法律原则而构成滥用自由裁量权。
4 lawsuits 1878e62a5ca1482cc4ae9e93dcf74d69     
n.诉讼( lawsuit的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Lawsuits involving property rights and farming and grazing rights increased markedly. 涉及财产权，耕作与放牧权的诉讼案件显著地增加。 来自辞典例句
  • I've lost and won more lawsuits than any man in England. 全英国的人算我官司打得最多，赢的也多，输的也多。 来自辞典例句
5 breached e3498bf16767cf8f9f8dc58f7275a5a5     
攻破( breach的现在分词 )； 破坏，违反
参考例句：
  • These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
  • Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。
6 lucrative dADxp     
adj.赚钱的，可获利的
参考例句：
  • He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.他决定把自己的爱好变成赚钱的副业。
  • It was not a lucrative profession.那是一个没有多少油水的职业。

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