Which obligations apply to your building?
Eleven obligations tested against your building: its size, its age, its equipment. Each with its legal basis, and the reason it applies — or does not.
Your building
Two figures are enough: age triggers the most obligations.
Residential, office or retail lots. Cellars and parking spaces do not count.
Since the works were handed over, not since you bought.
Its features
Three boxes, each triggering obligations of its own.
What applies to your building
10 apply · 1 can be waived · 0 out of scope
Registration on the national register
AppliesApplies to every co-ownership, whatever its size or age.
Article L. 711-1 of the construction and housing code
Summary sheet of the co-ownership
AppliesApplies to every co-ownership, whatever its size or age.
Article 8-2 of the act of 10 July 1965
Maintenance log
AppliesApplies to every co-ownership, whatever its size or age.
Article 18 of the act of 10 July 1965
Public liability insurance for the association
AppliesApplies to every co-ownership, whatever its size or age.
Article 9-1 of the act of 10 July 1965
Secure online space
Unless waivedCompulsory, but the meeting can waive it by a vote — a waiver that is rarely justified.
Article 18 of the act of 10 July 1965
Separate bank account
AppliesCompulsory with no possible waiver above the lot threshold.
Article 18 of the act of 10 July 1965
Works fund
AppliesThe building is over five years old: the annual contribution is due.
Article 14-2-1 of the act of 10 July 1965
Multi-year works plan
AppliesThe building is over fifteen years old: the multi-year plan is required.
Article 14-2 of the act of 10 July 1965
Collective energy assessment
AppliesThe phased timetable is now complete: every size is concerned.
Article L. 126-31 of the construction and housing code
Individual heat metering
AppliesCollective heating: individual metering is due, unless technical impossibility or excessive cost is shown.
Article L. 241-9 of the energy code
Lift servicing and periodic inspection
AppliesA servicing contract and a periodic technical inspection are compulsory.
Articles L. 125-2 and R. 125-2 of the construction and housing code
What triggers an obligation
Three criteria explain almost every difference between two buildings: the use of the building, its age, and its equipment.
Use, first of all
The works fund, the multi-year plan and the collective energy assessment concern only buildings in residential use, at least partly. A building entirely in office use falls outside.
The phased timetables are behind us
The multi-year plan and the collective assessment came into force in stages, from the largest building to the smallest. Those stages have passed: the number of lots no longer shifts the deadline, it only affects the separate account waiver.
Four common misunderstandings
They come up at every meeting, and mostly cost time.
“That is the agent’s job”
True for carrying it out, false for checking it. The condo board verifies that these obligations are met — nobody else will.
Confusing obligation with deadline
An obligation that has applied for two years but was never carried out is still an obligation. How long it has been overdue does not erase it.
“We are too small”
Size exempts almost nothing: it only opens a separate account waiver, voted at the meeting. Everything else applies.
Mixed building, mixed obligations
A partly residential building falls within the scope of housing-related obligations. The presence of shops exempts nothing.
These tools are calculation aids, provided for guidance only. They replace neither your co-ownership rules, nor the minutes of the general meeting, nor professional advice: in case of disagreement, your building’s own documents prevail.
Frequently asked questions about condo obligations
Yes. Registration on the national register is compulsory for every co-owners’ association, and the data must be updated each year by the managing agent. Failing to register can block access to certain grants.
A forgotten obligation surfaces at the worst moment
When putting a grant file together, when a lot is sold, when a new managing agent arrives. CoproHarmony keeps the building’s documents and their dates in one place — so the question “where do we stand?” is settled in a minute rather than in three emails.
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