Housing maintenance fund actually includes housing public facilities special fund and housing maintenance fund. The special fund for housing public facilities is referred to as the special fund, which is used for projects such as the renovation of common parts of property and public facilities and equipment, and shall not be used for other purposes.

1. When will the housing maintenance fund be paid?

According to the Measures for the Administration of Housing Facilities and Equipment Maintenance Fund jointly issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Finance:

(a) commercial housing sales, buyers and selling units should sign the relevant housing maintenance fund payment agreement, buyers should pay the housing maintenance fund to the selling unit according to the proportion of 2-3% of the purchase price.

(two) the maintenance fund collected by the sales unit belongs to all owners and is not included in the residential sales income.

(3) The current deposit standard of the first special maintenance fund is: 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). The provisions on the payment of the house maintenance fund are as follows: the owner shall pay the house maintenance fund before the house is delivered. The first phase of housing special maintenance funds, the owners can be directly deposited in the housing special maintenance fund account, can also be entrusted to the real estate development enterprises to pay. Entrusted by a real estate development enterprise, the real estate development enterprise shall, within 30 days from the date of receiving the housing maintenance fund, deposit the housing special maintenance fund into the housing special maintenance fund account.

Second, what is the maintenance fund paid when 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.

I hope the above contents are helpful to you. If in doubt, you can consult a professional lawyer.

Legal basis: Article 12 of the Measures for the Administration of Residential Special Maintenance Funds stipulates that the owners of commercial housing should deposit the first-phase residential special maintenance funds into the special maintenance fund account before handling the house occupancy procedures.

The owner of the sold public housing shall deposit the first special maintenance fund of public housing into the special maintenance fund account of public housing or hand it over to the selling unit for deposit into the special maintenance fund account of public housing before going through the housing check-in formalities.

Units selling public housing houses shall deposit the extracted special maintenance funds for public housing houses into the special account of special maintenance funds for public housing houses within 30 days from the date of receiving the payment for selling houses.