Housing maintenance funds can be entrusted to real estate developers, who will deposit the housing special maintenance funds into the housing special maintenance fund account within 30 days from the date of receipt, and the owners need to pay the housing maintenance funds before handing over the house. When selling commercial housing, the purchaser and the selling unit shall sign the relevant maintenance fund payment agreement, and the purchaser shall pay the 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.
Legal basis: Article 3 of the Notice on Printing and Distributing issued by the State Council Municipal Bureau of Organs Affairs (hereinafter referred to as the maintenance fund) is a fund that is drawn by the selling unit according to a certain proportion after the public housing of the unit is sold, and paid by the purchaser to the selling unit in one lump sum according to the regulations for the maintenance of the * * * parts of the house and facilities and equipment.
Notice of the State Council Municipal Administration of Organs Affairs on Printing and Distributing Article 6 Deposited Maintenance Fund. After the implementation measures for the sale of public housing by units are approved by the higher authorities, the entrusted bank will open the principal account of the unit maintenance fund and the interest settlement account of the unit maintenance fund under the special account of the maintenance fund of the central state organs. Within one month after collecting the individual house price, the funds paid by the purchaser shall be deposited into the main account of the maintenance fund of the unit, and at the same time, the subsidy funds drawn by the unit from the house price account shall be transferred into the main account of the maintenance fund.