Two years ago, in many localities, especially in Hanoi, there was a situation where some individuals and small businesses bought up land from people in villages, divided it into lots, and sold it.
Before subdivision, many plots of land originally used for perennial crops, garden land, etc. were converted to residential land, but not for residential purposes but for sale.
The situation of land division and sale is happening in some suburban districts of Hanoi such as Thach That, Quoc Oai, Me Linh, Dong Anh...
For example, in Binh Yen and Tan Xa communes, Thach That district, it is not difficult to find plots of land that have been divided into lots. The plots of land usually have an area of 50 - 100m2 but have a selling price ranging from 1.5 - 2.5 billion VND.
It is worth mentioning that after being sold to investors, the subdivided lands are often abandoned, overgrown with grass, without any construction or residents.
To avoid the widespread subdivision of land, Hanoi has proposed many management solutions.
Most recently, this locality is seeking opinions on a draft regulation on conditions for land division and consolidation, and the minimum area and size allowed for division for each type of land.
Accordingly, if the land division does not form a new path in the ward or town, the land plot must ensure an area of not less than 50 square meters, a length of over 4 meters and a width adjacent to the traffic road of 4 meters or more.
For communes in the plains, the minimum area for plot division is 80m2, for communes in the midlands it is 100m2 and for communes in the mountainous areas it is at least 150m2.
In case of land division with the formation of a walkway, the required cross-sectional width of the walkway is from 3.5m for towns, 4m or more for plain areas and 5m or more for midlands and mountainous areas...
Currently, land division in Hanoi is being applied according to Decision No. 20/2017/QD-UBND. Accordingly, the land plot after division must have a minimum area of 30m2 for wards and towns and not less than 50% of the new land allocation limit (minimum) for the remaining areas.
Sharing about this issue, economic expert Associate Professor Dr. Dinh Trong Thinh said that raising the minimum area for land division in wards and towns will create a mechanism to prevent the widespread division of land plots, disrupting urban planning in the central area because Hanoi is a special urban area, with great pressure on mechanical population growth.
According to Mr. Thinh, in fact, in the suburban districts of Hanoi such as Quoc Oai, Thach That, Ba Vi, etc., recently there has been a wave of investors buying large plots of rural land, then dividing them into smaller plots according to the local minimum residential land area along with garden land, then buying and selling them again, pushing up prices to make a profit.
However, there are also opinions that the proposal to increase the minimum land area in wards and towns could also create great pressure on people in need of housing and land, especially in the context of real estate prices in Hanoi that have increased sharply and remained high in recent times.
