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There is a 30-year-old woman who paid 50 million won to buy a row house with a charter.
Two years later, the woman’s father ran for mayor, and he went to the area and pledged to push for redevelopment.
This is the story of former lawmaker Shin Sang-jin, who became a candidate for the People’s Power Seongnam Mayor.
Correspondent Kim Sang-hoon reported exclusively.
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The old downtown area of Jungwon-gu, Seongnam, where four to five-story row houses are lined up.
There are many dilapidated houses built in the early 1990s, so there is hope for redevelopment.
It is said that there is a lot of demand for ‘gap investment’ because you can buy a house for tens of millions of won if you use a jeonse.
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“Because of the redevelopment here, we are investing a lot in the gap. Well, people from Seoul come and buy a lot, and they don’t just buy a house, they rent it…”
One of them is a row house.
According to the registration, the owner is Mr. Shin, who was born in 1990.
In July 2020, I bought this 38-square-meter house for 175 million won.
It is a typical ‘gap investment’ method, in which, after ten days of the contract, the charter was paid for 120 million won and actually only 50 million won was spent.
Shin’s father is a candidate for Seongnam Mayor Shin Sang-jin, who served as a four-term lawmaker in the region.
At the time of the contract, Shin’s daughter, a 30-year-old graduate student, lived in an officetel in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, and still lives in Seoul.
A local real estate agent said that he sold about 90 similar properties in three months, and said that the market price has risen by more than 100 million now.
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“By the time my children get married, they have developed and will receive a right to move in (a new apartment)… (with such anticipation) I am now investing in the mid- to long-term perspective.”
However, Candidate Sang-Jin Shin held a redevelopment meeting with the residents of this neighborhood twice recently.
At a meeting last week, when the residents said, “I believe that you will solve the redevelopment problem,” he replied, “I will surely repay you with a market of hope that solves reconstruction and redevelopment.”
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“That’s what the candidate said. ‘I’ll find a way to redevelop it within 2030’…”
The area for redevelopment promised by Candidate Shin includes a row house invested by her daughter.
In response, Candidate Shin said in a phone call with MBC, “I bought it for the purpose of living when my daughter receives 50 million won from her grandmother and gets a job.”
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“I had all the money I received from my grandmother, so I thought I would live after graduating from graduate school and get a job, so I rented a…
He also emphasized that he promised to redevelop several places in the Seongnam area as well as the area, and that it had nothing to do with the purchase of his daughter’s house.
However, when the conflict of interest problem was pointed out, candidate Shin said, “I will sell the house if I am elected,” and then sent another text message saying, “I put it up for sale today on real estate.”
This is Kim Sang-hoon from MBC News.
Video coverage: Na Kyung-woon
Video Editing: Park Hye-rin
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