Free talk-to buy or to rent a house

Shortcomings:
1. lack of stability 2. what if you meet a mean landlord? 3. what if your future mother-in-law says no? 4. …
Will you buy or will you rent?
Shortcomings:
1. afford a lot of money or even have to bear a burden of housing loans
2. what if you are not satisfied with the goods you buy?
3. what if the housing price lower?
Alibaba's Sesame Credit
By connecting prospective tenants with housing information, they vowed to use their resources of consumer data, online payment technology, and credit rating systems to prevent dishonest deals and sudden rate hikes.
If we buy a flat, what can we get?
Benefits:
1. feel more comfortable to live in your own home 2. do any decoration as you like 3. help your children to enter a better school 4. get a local Hukou 5. ….
4. …
If we rent a flat, what can we benefit from?
Benefits:
1. have money saved for other purposes such as paying tuition for further study 2. can change your choices 3. …
China will uphold long-leasing as a corner stone in developing the rental housing market, with a series of policies on the way to encourage people to rent instead of buying.
single bed
quilt
double bed
pillow
bed-linen
curtain
blanket
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armchair
mattress
Vocabulary for your reference
dormitory
deposit
flat/apartment
whole rent
UP TO YOU
Vocabulary for your reference
fridge
stereo
washing machine
radiator
dishwasher
toaster
water heater
dryer
microwave oven
air conditioner
Vocabulary for your reference
What did they do?
Since middle of this year, the country’s tech giants such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Tencent Holdings Ltd and JD have entered the home leasing market, creating online system that include apartment searching, contract signing and payment.
suburb/outskirts
joint rent
downtown/urban area landlord/landlady tenant
one month’s rent as a deposit plus a prepayment of three months’ rent
roommate
Long-term leasing gets more impetus
Free talk
TO BUY OR TO RENT A HOUSE
Vocabulary for your reference
single bedroom double bedroom living room kitchen toilet bathroom
courtyard garage balcony corridor fence fountain
Why?
China will move faster to “put in place a housing system that ensures supply through multiple choices, provides support through multiple channels, and encourages both house purchases and rentals”.