Does the property maintenance fund have to be paid?

Housing maintenance fund must be paid.

You must pay the maintenance fund when buying a house. Maintenance fund, also known as public maintenance fund special maintenance fund, refers to the fund that the owners of residential properties pay a certain standard of money to a special account for the maintenance of public parts and equipment in the property area, and authorize the owners' committee to manage and use it uniformly. The following owners shall deposit special residential maintenance funds in accordance with the provisions of these Measures:

1. residence, except that it is owned by one owner and does not have * * * use parts and other properties and uses facilities and equipment;

2. Non-residential buildings in residential areas or non-residential buildings connected with single residential structures outside residential areas.

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Measures for the administration of residential special maintenance funds

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

(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 special maintenance fund for the house per square meter of construction area shall be 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. Ninth residential special maintenance funds deposited by the owners belong to the owners. The residential special maintenance funds extracted from the public housing sales funds belong to the public housing sales units. Ninth residential special maintenance funds deposited by the owners belong to the owners, and the residential special maintenance funds extracted from the public housing sales funds belong to the public housing sales units. Article 10 Before the establishment of the owners' meeting, the residential special maintenance funds deposited by commercial residential owners and non-residential owners shall be managed by the construction (real estate) department of the people's government of the municipality, city or county where the property is located. The competent department of construction (real estate) of the people's government of a municipality directly under the central government, city or county shall entrust a local commercial bank as the management bank for the special account of residential maintenance funds within its administrative area, open a special account of residential maintenance funds, and set up a sub-account according to the room number by taking the property management area as the unit; If the property management area is not demarcated, an account shall be set up in units of buildings, and a sub-account shall be set up according to the house number.