Is it legal for the intermediary to collect property fees in advance?

Because intermediary companies only provide intermediary services, including information services and transfer services. Intermediaries can help buyers and sellers pay off their property, but they can't charge property fees. Because paying the property fee requires the invoice of the property, the intermediary can't provide the invoice for collecting the property fee, and if there is property arrears, it can't produce the invoice.

Property fee, technical term is wùyèfèi, is the fee charged by property owners and users who entrust the property management unit to carry out daily maintenance, repair, renovation and other services related to residents' life in residential areas, such as houses, public facilities, greening, sanitation, transportation, public security, environment and so on.