Gyeonggi Province to Operate 'Second Half Real Estate Transaction Order Assistants' from August

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hoon] Gyeonggi Province will operate the '2021 Second Half Gyeonggi Province Real Estate Transaction Order Assistants' from August 2 to establish a fair and transparent real estate transaction order.

The 'Gyeonggi Province Real Estate Transaction Order Assistants' are temporary workers assisting city and county civil servants. To actively address 'illegal real estate transactions,' a key provincial policy initiative, they will perform auxiliary tasks including prevention and guidance on fraudulent real estate listings and housing price collusion, investigation of real estate transaction reports, and investigation of planned real estate projects.

Prior to launching the project, the province conducted a needs survey across 31 cities and counties within the province last year and selected 11 cities and counties (Suwon, Hwaseong, Ansan, Siheung, Gwangju, Yangpyeong, Yeoju, Gwacheon, Goyang, Guri, and Pocheon) as target areas for the project, securing a business budget of 525 million won for 2021.

For the second half of this year (August to November), 120 applicants applied for the real estate transaction order assistant positions, and 23 were hired, including 9 graduates from real estate-related majors.

Hong Ji-seon, Director of Urban and Housing Affairs, said, "We will work closely with the relevant cities and counties to achieve good results from this project," and "We will review expansion of the project in the future to establish fair and transparent real estate transaction order and contribute to job creation."

Meanwhile, the province hired 40 real estate transaction order assistants last year and conducted investigations of 20,022 cases of real estate actual transaction price reports, prevention and guidance on 3,302 fraudulent real estate listings, special investigations of 2,885 suspected false real estate transaction reporters, and 593 planned real estate project investigations.