Can rural houses be bought and sold?

Yes, but houses and homesteads in rural areas cannot be sold to people outside the collective economic organizations.

according to

People's Republic of China (PRC) and Land Management Law >: Article 63 stipulates that "the right to use land collectively owned by farmers shall not be sold, transferred or leased for non-agricultural construction". If farmers' houses are allowed to buy and sell freely, the right to use the homestead related to the house will be sold together with the house as the subject matter, which is essentially non-agricultural construction on the land collectively owned by farmers, which violates this regulation.

The second paragraph of Article 2 of the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Strengthening the Management of Land Circulation and Prohibiting Land Speculation stipulates: "Farmers' houses shall not be sold to urban residents, nor shall urban residents occupy farmers' collective land to build houses, and the relevant departments shall not issue land use certificates and real estate licenses for illegally built and purchased houses." ?

Extended data

The process of buying and selling rural houses:

1, the sale of houses shall be subject to the written consent of the collective, that is, the villagers' committee.

2. If * * * has a room, it must obtain the consent of other * * * people.

3. Submit the originals of household registration book, resident ID card, land certificate, real estate license and other related materials.

4. You should go to the property rights registration department to check whether there are any defects in the property rights of the house, such as whether there are mortgages and other guarantees, and whether the people's court has taken property preservation measures such as sealing up.

5. A written sales contract shall be concluded, and approval and transfer formalities shall be handled. The housing sales contract shall be approved by the relevant functional departments, and the procedures for the transfer and renaming of the homestead certificate or the collective land use certificate shall be handled; You should also go to the real estate management department to handle the transfer and renaming procedures of the Property Ownership Certificate according to law.

References:

Can rural houses be bought and sold? An Wei Journal