When buying a new house, also known as a first-hand house, you need to pay a special maintenance fund.
Regardless of whether it is a newly purchased commercial house, affordable housing, or a public house converted into a private house, etc., you need to pay this fee. According to Article 6 of the "Measures for the Management of Special Residential Maintenance Funds": The owners of the following properties shall deposit residential property in accordance with the provisions of these Measures.
Special maintenance funds: (1) Residences, except those owned by one owner and which do not have public parts, public facilities and equipment with other properties; (2) Non-residential buildings in the residential community or outside the residential community and single buildings
A nonresidential property connected to a residential structure.
If the properties listed in the preceding paragraph belong to public housing for sale, the selling unit shall deposit special housing maintenance funds in accordance with the provisions of these Measures.
When buying a second-hand house, you don’t have to pay the special maintenance fund again.
Because the characteristic of the maintenance fund is that the money goes with the house.
That is, after the property is sold, the special maintenance fund paid by the original owner is automatically transferred to the new owner along with the house, instead of being returned to the original owner.
Article 28 of the "Measures for the Management of Special Residential Maintenance Funds" stipulates: When the ownership of a house is transferred, the owner shall explain the deposit and balance of the special residential maintenance funds to the transferee and issue a valid certificate.
The funds are transferred with the ownership of the house.
The transferee should wait until the special account management bank to go through the name change procedures for the separate account with the agreement on the transfer of special residential maintenance funds, the house ownership certificate, and the ID card.