What is a housing maintenance fund?
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. Special funds to implement the principle of "money with the house". When the house is transferred, the remaining funds in the account are also transferred to the new owner of the house.
What is the proportion of the housing maintenance fund?
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. 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).
Under what circumstances can the housing maintenance fund be used?
The housing maintenance fund is used for large and medium-sized repair and renovation projects 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 supply and drainage pipelines and equipment, distribution cables and equipment, elevators, public lighting, fire-fighting facilities, green spaces, roads, ditches, non-operating parking garages, public cultural and sports facilities and other facilities and equipment owned and used by the owner. The maintenance fund is managed by the Housing Authority, and the application process is complicated.
Can the housing maintenance fund be used in other places?
The "Administrative Measures" of the Ministry of Construction stipulates that when the maintenance fund is idle, it is strictly forbidden to use it for other purposes except for purchasing government bonds or other fields stipulated by laws and regulations. According to Article 63 of the State Council's Property Management Regulations, the real estate administrative department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall recover the misappropriated special maintenance funds, give a warning, confiscate the illegal income, and may impose a fine of less than 2 times the misappropriated amount; Property management companies misappropriate special maintenance funds, and if the circumstances are serious, the qualification certificate shall be revoked by the department that issued the qualification certificate; If the case constitutes a crime, the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.
Who manages the housing maintenance fund?
According to the Measures for the Management of Facilities and Equipment Maintenance Fund in Residential Areas jointly issued by the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Finance 1998, the maintenance fund of public facilities and equipment is paid by all owners and owned by all owners. Under normal circumstances, it will be managed by the real estate administrative department. After the establishment of the owners' committee, the public maintenance fund will be handed over to the industry committee, which will exercise the management right.
(The above answers were published on 20 16- 12-08. Please refer to the actual situation for the current purchase policy. )
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