Guangdong Zhiming Law Firm lawyer successfully recovers home purchase deposit for property owner
In August 2011, Ms. Fu learned through an advertisement that a property in Bao'an was about to be put up for pre-sale. She went to the sales office to inquire about the development and was warmly received by a sales representative, who showed her the specific layout of a unit on a certain floor. That same day, she paid a deposit of 150,000 yuan for the apartment. After calming down a few days later, she conducted an on-site inspection and gathered more information, and came to realize that her decision to buy had been hasty—the property did not actually meet her requirements. She then developed the intention to cancel the purchase and get her deposit back. When Ms. Fu informed the sales representative of her intention to withdraw, she was met with a cold refusal. She then sought legal assistance, but after consulting several lawyers who all told her there was no hope of recovering the deposit, she was referred through a friend to...Lawyers.
After reviewing the subscription agreement and detailed information about the property, Attorney Wang Tengfeng, with keen insight, identified the decisive key point for resolving the dispute: the subscription agreement was signed one day before the property's pre-sale launch, and it explicitly stipulated that the sales office was obligated to provide the buyer with access to and explanations of the formal real estate sales contract text and supplementary agreements, the land use rights transfer contract and its supplementary agreements, the "Real Estate Pre-sale Permit," the "Construction Land Planning Permit," the "Construction Engineering Planning Permit," the "Construction Permit," and other relevant documents. Since the subscription agreement in this case was signed prior to the property's pre-sale date, the aforementioned documents were neither displayed at the sales office nor provided to Ms. Wang for review or explanation, which constitutes suspected fraud.
Therefore, our firm successfully took on this case, and thenLawyersUnder the guidance of [the relevant authority], our firm's lawyers Yang Lirong, Chen Qingxu (trainee lawyer), and Ren Guo (trainee lawyer) formed a legal team to handle the case specifically. Through arduous mediation and negotiation with leaders at various levels, including the sales office and the property developer, a settlement agreement was reached: the full deposit of 150,000 yuan was refunded to Miss Wang! The case concluded smoothly as originally anticipated, sparing the time-consuming and laborious litigation process.
