Generally speaking, you can't ask the buyer for the housing maintenance fund. Because the property right of the house has been transferred after selling the house, the maintenance fund paid before will not be refunded. The former maintenance foundation was handed over to the new buyer at the same time as the property right was transferred. But if you want to recover the maintenance fund, you can discuss it with the buyer, for example, in the contract.
The management of housing maintenance fund will follow the five principles of "unified deposit, special account storage, earmarking, owner's decision-making and government supervision". With the strengthening of the government's supervision over the whereabouts of the housing maintenance fund, the improvement of relevant laws and regulations, and the improvement of the welfare that ordinary people should enjoy, the problems existing in the housing maintenance fund will be solved.
The maintenance fund shall be used exclusively for the maintenance, renewal and transformation of equipment and public facilities in the same place in the property management area after the expiration of the property warranty period, and shall not be used for other purposes. According to the regulations, the owner can't apply. Only with the consent of the owners' management committee and the approval of the owners' real estate administrative department (in some places, it may be other departments or institutions) can the maintenance fund be used for audit. After the audit procedure is completed, the maintenance fund will be withdrawn from the designated bank with the audit procedure.
I hope the above content can help you. If in doubt, please consult a professional lawyer.
Legal basis:
Measures for the administration of residential special maintenance funds
Fourth residential special maintenance funds management to implement the principle of special account storage, earmarking, owner decision-making, government supervision.
Article 6 The owners of the following properties shall deposit special maintenance funds for houses in accordance with the provisions of these Measures: (1) Houses, except those owned by one owner and not used with other properties and using facilities and equipment; (2) Non-residential buildings in residential quarters or non-residential buildings connected with single residential structures outside residential quarters. If the property listed in the preceding paragraph belongs to the sale of public housing, the selling unit shall deposit special housing maintenance funds in accordance with the provisions of these measures.
Article 8 Where public housing is sold, the special housing maintenance fund shall be deposited in accordance with the following provisions: (1) The owner shall deposit the special housing maintenance fund according to the construction area of the property he owns, and the amount of the first special housing maintenance fund deposited per square meter of construction area shall be 2% of the local housing reform cost price. (two) units selling houses shall, in accordance with the proportion of not less than 20% of multi-storey houses and not less than 30% of high-rise houses, draw a one-time special maintenance fund for houses from the sales funds.
Ninth residential special maintenance funds deposited by the owners belong to the owners. The residential special maintenance funds extracted from the public housing sales funds belong to the public housing sales units.