[단독] Dasan New Town’Sold Out in Sale’, Thousands of Generations Strike a Class Action

Input 2021.04.19 13:30

Eileen’s Garden, Peninsula Yubora Maple Town 2.0, etc.
Participated in class action suit for 7 apartments in new cities
In case of victory, about 6.5 million to 8 million won per household will be returned.

Residents of Dasan New Town in Namyangju go to a class action lawsuit against the developer and the construction company who unfairly received additional fees for violating the sale price ceiling system. Thousands of generations participated in the public recruitment of litigation participants conducted by a large law firm, and the size of the litigation alone is expected to reach tens of billions of won.

According to the legal community on the 19th, Dong-in Law Firm is preparing a class action suit against a contractor on behalf of a resident of an apartment that violates the sale price ceiling system in Dasan New Town in Namyangju. An official from Dong-in said, “We plan to submit the complaint at the end of this month.”

Dong-in’s’Residential Site Development Team’ will take over this lawsuit. The Dong-in housing site development team is led by lawyer Kim Jin-hyun (24th Judicial Research and Training Institute), a former judge of the Seoul Central District Court. Attorney Kim is from the Construction Department of the Seoul Central District Law and the Construction Department of the Seoul High Court, and is a lawyer specializing in housing site development.

Earlier, in February of last year, the Board of Audit and Inspection announced the results of an audit conducted with Namyangju City on the operation of the pre-sale price ceiling system. According to a report by the Audit and Inspection Service, it was revealed that the seven apartments in Dasan New Town had not changed their structure, but they were illegally incurring additional expenses of 584 billion won to the tenants due to the change in the structure type.

The additional cost refers to the cost of equipment incurred in the process of developing a housing site. In the 7 apartments, which had a problem in reflecting the additional cost to the sale price, the contractor paid the residents in the form of additional cost of equipment that were not actually used.

Although the problem was revealed by the audit of the auditor, the construction company is not returning the unfair benefits they have earned to the residents. The Board of Audit and Inspection and Namyangju City are also holding back, saying that this is a problem that the contractor and residents must solve.

Since last month, Dong-in dispatched a lawyer from the housing site development team to Dasan New Town and held a briefing session for a class action suit. He announced that the only way to get the penalty fee back was the lawsuit and started recruiting participants in the lawsuit. An official from Dong-in said, “We decided to receive compensation only if Dong-in paid all the litigation costs and won.”

Dong-in believes that if he wins this lawsuit, it will be able to get around 6.5 million to 8 million won per household. About 60% of the residents of Dasan New Town’s three apartments’Eileen’s Garden’,’Bando Yubora Maple Town 2.0′ and’Shinan Insville First Fore’ have decided to participate. The number of litigation participants continues to increase in the remaining four apartments. Considering that the total number of apartments in question is about 7,000, thousands of households are suing.

Although it is not easy to win a lawsuit to receive the payment of the pre-sale payment back, this lawsuit is also predicting the possibility of winning because the audit result of the auditor can be used as evidence. Attorney Kim said, “Despite the report of the auditor, there seems to be no intention of returning the profits that the apartment developers have taken unfairly to the residents.”