Is it legal that the group purchase fee charged for buying a house is not included in the house price?

Illegal.

1. According to the Notice of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on Further Standardizing the Business Behavior of Real Estate Development Enterprises and Maintaining the Order of the Real Estate Market, investigate and deal with the improper business behavior of real estate development enterprises according to law. Some real estate development enterprises have illegal business practices in pursuit of illegitimate interests, including:

(a) the sale of commercial housing is not clearly marked, which is higher than the marked price to sell the house or charge an unspecified fee;

(2) forcing the buyer to accept the price of the goods or services by tying or attaching conditions;

(three) the sale of commercial housing without obtaining the pre-sale permit;

(four) the unqualified commercial housing sales, subscription, reservation, lottery, card issuing, etc. charge the buyer or charge the deposit, reservation fee and other expenses in disguise, and take the opportunity to raise the price;

(five) hoarding property or housing in disguise;

(six) publishing false housing information and advertisements;

(seven) by fabricating or spreading information about price increases, maliciously speculating and driving up house prices;

(eight) reselling the commercial housing that has become the subject of the commercial housing sales contract to others;

(9) Other unfair business practices.

2, the existence of the above behavior of real estate development enterprises, real estate departments at all levels should intensify law enforcement inspection, severely punished according to law. Improper business practices should be handled by other departments, and should be promptly handed over to the relevant departments for legal treatment. Anyone suspected of committing a crime shall be transferred to judicial organs for criminal responsibility according to law.

Extended data:

The real estate departments at all levels shall, depending on the seriousness of the case, take the following measures for real estate development enterprises:

(1) A written warning;

(two) interview the main person in charge of the enterprise;

(3) Publicly reporting unfair business practices of enterprises;

(four) included in the list of serious illegal and untrustworthy real estate development enterprises;

(five) determined by the qualification licensing authority in the qualification examination.

(six) according to the requirements of this notice, all localities should conscientiously implement it and formulate relevant measures in light of the actual situation.

Ministry of Urban Construction of China-Notice on Further Standardizing the Operation Behavior of Real Estate Development Enterprises and Maintaining the Order of the Real Estate Market