Can’t sit still! Countdown to the New Deal, car owners have sold their cars and transferred their ownership.
Chinanews. com client Beijing December 20th (Reporter Zhang Xu) Sigh, anxiety and busyness … … With the approaching of the official implementation date (January 1, 2021) of the new policy of regulating the number of passenger cars in Beijing, everyone involved has been mobilized, which can be said that some people are happy and others are worried.
Cars running on the urban roads in Beijing. Zhongxin. com reporter Cheng Chunyu
The way to rent and sell "Beijing brand" will be gone.
"A business friend I know bought nine minivans and nine Beijing brands that year." Mr. Lu, the owner of the car, told the reporter of Zhongxin. com that one of his bosses who is not registered in Beijing and is engaged in fruit wholesale business has been increasing his income by renting and selling license plates for many years. "Nine cars are all Beijing brands. He has been waiting for the appreciation of these years."
In recent years, due to the continuous decline in the lottery winning rate of Beijing passenger cars, the business of "renting Beijing brand" has continued to be hot in Beijing, and the restrictions on foreign-brand vehicles in Beijing have also caused the price of Beijing brand to rise.
According to reports, the current offer for renting a Beijing brand is about 12,000 yuan per year, but if you really want to rent it, you need to pay additional money such as deposit and security deposit. A middleman can earn 5,000-6,000 yuan for a Beijing brand. Therefore, the actual price of renting Beijing brand for one year has reached about 20 thousand yuan.
However, in the face of the New Deal, the road to renting Beijing brand has been blocked. In February 2020, the General Office of Beijing Municipal Government issued the Action Plan for Comprehensive Traffic Management in Beijing in 2020, which intensified the crackdown on the illegal activities of renting and selling passenger cars. The passenger car index confirmation notice is only used by the index owner. If there is any act of buying, selling, renting or renting, lending or borrowing the passenger car index confirmation notice, the index management institution will announce that the index is invalid.
"Coupled with the New Deal next year, his Beijing brand business is estimated to be impossible. His family has no household registration and cannot transfer indicators. So many brands must be in their hands." Mr. Lu said.
On December 7, the newly revised Interim Provisions on the Regulation of the Number of Passenger Cars in Beijing and the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Interim Provisions on the Regulation of the Number of Passenger Cars in Beijing were officially announced. The New Deal tilted towards car-free families and promoted the orderly withdrawal of the second and more passenger cars registered in this city under the name of individuals. The New Deal will be implemented on January 1, 2021.
In other words, there can only be one passenger car indicator under each person’s name, which is the license plate. If there are multiple license plates in the name and there are no eligible transfer objects, the extra license plates will be invalidated together when the vehicle is scrapped.
There is a long queue of cars in Beijing used car market. Zhongxin.com reporter Zhang Xu photo
Queue up late at night to ensure the index, and the transfer of used cars has surged.
According to the New Deal, as long as the vehicle transfer, transfer or cancellation registration has been completed before December 31, 2020, you can apply for updating the indicators at any time in the future.
In addition, the relevant car owners do not need to apply for updating the indicators before the implementation of the New Deal, and there is no longer a time limit for applying for updating the indicators within 12 months after the implementation of the New Deal. However, once the application is obtained, the index is still valid for 12 months. If the vehicle under his name is sold or scrapped after January 1, 2021, only one of the vehicles can apply for the updated index.
The reporter visited and found that many car owners rushed to sell old cars and buy new cars before the implementation of the New Deal to extend the service life of the indicators. As the date of the implementation of the New Deal is getting closer and closer, the transfer of ownership has become a top priority for car owners with related needs. The reporter learned from a number of interviewees that it even takes more than 24 hours to queue up to transfer to the Beijing Huaxiang used car trading market recently.
"At the Huaxiang Market at two o’clock in the morning, queue up late at night to guarantee the indicators!" "If you want to transfer, you have to fill up the oil and come back. Don’t catch a cold for 24 hours. It took an hour to walk 10 meters. " "Huaxiang used car transfer, lined up for a few kilometers … …”
Netizens said that vehicle transfer needs to be queued late at night. Weibo screenshot
"The New Deal is coming, my dad is going to transfer an indicator to me, let me buy one quickly, and I will come and look at the second-hand one." In Beijing Huaxiang used car market, a young customer said to the salesperson. The staff said that after the release of the New Deal, the number of people who came to the store to see cars increased significantly, and more than half of them were young people who got indicators from their parents.
Mr. Zhang, a citizen holding two passenger car indicators at the transfer site, is anxious to find a buyer for an extra car. Mr. Zhang admits that there are also indicators under the names of relatives, and he can only choose to sell the old car at the end of this year to make room for indicators, so that he can buy two new cars after the implementation of the New Deal.
In response to Mr. Zhang’s situation, the customer service staff of the Beijing Passenger Car Indicators Control and Management Office said that if an individual has two indicators and two cars are sold this year, after the indicators are vacant, the two indicators can still buy two new cars after the implementation of the New Deal. However, if the vehicles under the two indicators are sold after the implementation of the New Deal, only one new car can be updated according to the requirements of the new regulations.
In response to the surge in transfer business, the Beijing used car market has also started a seven-day work week model. On the basis of maintaining the original Monday-Saturday transfer, we will open the Sunday transfer business, and continue to handle it on December 13 and December 20, with the same acceptance time as other working days.
Huaxiang used car trading market opened on Sunday to accept vehicle transfer business. Weibo screenshot
The huge market demand makes the agency earn a lot of money. "Everyone is anxious to buy a car, and it is no problem to trade more than a dozen mid-to high-end used cars a day recently." A staff member of a used car brokerage company said.
It’s just that the money doesn’t seem to be easy to earn. Lv Tianyi, who has gone through the formalities of licensing a new car, said that when looking for an agency, the cost of licensing a new car is around 1,500 yuan, while that of a used car ranges from 1,500 yuan to 3,000 yuan, which will be charged according to the condition of the used car, whether it has been modified or decorated, and so on.
"In the first half of this year, business was generally not good. Recently, I saw that my former colleagues in the circle of friends were very busy, and they were all queuing for transfer. The business was really good, but it was really not easy in the cold weather."
There are too many people selling cars, and some used cars have fallen by tens of thousands of yuan.
With the surge in the number of used car transfers, the price of used cars is also falling.
On December 17th, after more than a week’s consultation, Dai Nan, the owner of Chaoyang District, finally made up his mind to sell his Magotan, which had only been in operation for two or three years. Half a year ago, after seeing the news of pushing the second license plate under his personal name to withdraw in an orderly manner, he considered what to do with the car, but he never made a move. As a result, as soon as the New Deal landed, the quotation of used car dealers was immediately reduced by more than 10,000 yuan.
In fact, it is not a case for car owners to encounter underpricing. Many car owners said on social media and forums that before and after the release of the New Deal, the price of cars was reduced by several thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan. The answer given by the car dealer is very straightforward: "When the New Deal comes out, the indicators will be invalidated if they can’t be updated. The market is like this, and the price is already ok. If you don’t sell it, some people will sell it."
Parking lot of a shopping mall in Haidian District, Beijing. Zhongxin.com reporter Zhang Xu photo
In order to sell a Mercedes R350 in his hand, Mr. Li asked a number of used car dealers in Beijing, but the price never reached expectations. "I am anxious to sell cars recently, but the used car dealers only give 150,000 yuan, which is much lower than I thought."
"If a month ago, the price of this car should be more than 180,000 yuan." A second-hand car dealer said that now car owners are anxious to sell cars, and the source of cars is increasing. Second-hand car dealers also have to look at the market. At present, the prices of high, medium and low-end models have generally declined compared with a month ago.
Used car dealers also have their own troubles. "We have to look at the market when we collect cars. The price of high-end models has not dropped much, and the price of low-end models has been reduced by almost 20%. Many of the cars sold are older models of National III and National IV, which can no longer be sold in Beijing and need to be moved to areas with looser emission standards. The owner feels that we are pushing down the price too much, but it is not easy for us. The market is like this. Transfer and relocation are all costs and have to be counted. " A used car dealer said.
It is worth noting that the lack of indicators of some used car dealers has also become one of the reasons for the decline in car prices. "Many of us are also personal indicators for renting. These cars must be sold this year, otherwise they will all be in their hands."
A BMW 4S shop in Haidian District, Beijing. Zhongxin.com reporter Zhang Xu photo
Selling old ones for new ones, it is hard to find a car for popular models in 4S shops.
Also affected by the market is Mr. Zhang who wants to replace Ollie A6L. At the end of last year, car dealers offered more discounts, but more cars were sold and more cars were bought. This year, the discount was reduced.
The new Audi A6L car that Mr. Zhang took a fancy to, after ten days’ hard work, the terminal discount was reduced from 20% to 14%, and the price of the old car was suppressed, which added up to nearly 40,000 yuan more than expected.
"Many popular models are even hard to find a car." According to CCTV’s financial report, I visited a number of 4S shops selling cars in Beijing. The staff said that many car owners recently chose to buy new cars immediately after selling their old cars or scrapping their vehicles. Therefore, some popular models in the store have been sold out, and some even have a small price increase.
According to the Voice of China report of the Central Radio and Television General Station, the supply of new cars in 4S stores is in short supply, and the sales of 4S stores have said that many hot-selling models are not available now, and even the prototype cars in some exhibition halls are sold out.
"Maybe everyone didn’t study the policy that just came out, and they were anxious to buy a car and settle down." Some insiders said that in fact, as long as the vehicle transfer, transfer or cancellation registration has been completed during the period from January 1 to December 31, 2020, you can apply for updating indicators at any time in the future, and you don’t need to apply for updating indicators before the implementation of the New Deal. (End)