Legal analysis: you can't apply for real estate license without paying the maintenance fund. According to the national regulations on the issuance of commercial housing property certificate, the owner must issue a proof of payment of the corresponding proportion of maintenance fund to the relevant departments before handling the housing property certificate. Without proof of payment, apply for real estate license. It is impossible for the real estate department to issue a real estate license to the owner. Because the maintenance fund is set up for the needs of the construction of public areas, it must be paid first before the property right certificate can be issued to the owners.

Legal basis: Measures for the Administration of Residential Special Maintenance Funds

Twelfth commercial housing owners shall, when handling the housing check-in, deposit the first phase of residential special maintenance funds into the residential special maintenance fund account.

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.

Thirteenth not according to the provisions of the deposit of the first residential special maintenance funds, development and construction units or public housing units shall not be delivered to the buyer.