Certificates of land use rights and house ownership is granted at snail pace. – Photo rubiclaw.vn

HA NOI (Biz Hub) — The capital city people's committee has expressed concern over slow progress in the granting of land use rights and house ownership certificates to residents.

The committee said the number of certificates granted by end-September did not go according to plan. A report showed that in the first nine months of 2014, only about 3,815 or 68.5 per cent of the target number of certificates were granted to households.

So far, nearly 1.25 million certificates, or 85.7 per cent of the city's target land slots and 99.6 per cent of slots eligible for certificates, were granted.

The authorities asked that the accountabilities of management agencies and investors in the slow granting of land use rights and house ownership certificates be specified.

The committee pointed out that the main cause for the delay was investors' non-compliance with planning, construction, transactions and land use fees.

It ordered the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to make a list of investors who were slow in submitting documents required for the granting of certificates and publish the list on the department's e-portal. Investors found guilty of violations will be barred from participating in other housing projects.

Previously, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment proposed that the time for administrative procedures in granting red books in housing projects and new urban areas be reduced from the current 60 days to only seven days. — VNS