What is the maintenance fund for buying a house?

The maintenance fund paid at the time of purchase is used for the maintenance and renewal of the main structure, public parts and public facilities and equipment of the house after the warranty period expires. The main load-bearing structures of houses include foundation, internal and external load-bearing walls, columns, beams, floors and roofs. Public parts refer to outdoor walls, hallways, stairwells, corridors, etc. Public facilities and equipment refer to water pipes, elevators, facades, fire-fighting facilities, green spaces, roads, ditches and other facilities and equipment used by owners in houses and related supporting areas.

What are the relevant provisions of the maintenance fund?

According to the provisions of the Measures for the Administration of Residential Special Maintenance Funds:

1. The owners of commercial housing and non-residential housing shall deposit special housing maintenance funds according to the construction area of their own property, and the amount of the first special housing maintenance funds deposited per square meter of construction area is 5% to 8% of the local housing construction and installation project cost per square meter.

The competent departments of construction (real estate) of the people's governments of municipalities directly under the central government, cities and counties shall, according to local conditions, reasonably determine and announce the amount of the first-phase residential special maintenance fund deposited per square meter of construction area, and make timely adjustments.

2, the sale of public housing, residential special maintenance funds deposited in accordance with the following provisions:

(1) The owner shall deposit the special maintenance fund for the house according to the construction area of the property he owns, and the amount of the first deposit of the special maintenance fund for the house per square meter of construction area is 2% of the local housing reform cost price.

(two) units selling houses shall, in accordance with the proportion of not less than 20% of multi-storey houses and not less than 30% of high-rise houses, draw a one-time special maintenance fund for houses from the sales funds.

How to calculate the housing maintenance fund

When selling commercial housing, the purchaser and the selling unit shall sign the relevant housing maintenance fund payment agreement, and the purchaser shall pay the housing maintenance fund to the selling unit according to the proportion of 2-3% of the purchase price.

The maintenance fund collected by the selling unit belongs to all owners and is not included in the residential sales income.

The current deposit standards of the first special maintenance fund are: 90 yuan per square meter for high-rise buildings (including multi-storey buildings with elevators) and 50 yuan per square meter for multi-storey buildings (including villas).