General condominium assemblies: Do you know how much your trustee costs you every month?

Between what co -owners think they are paying for their trustee and the reality of the fees received, the gap varies from simple to triple.

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“Il” is the great organizer of general assemblies (AG) of condominium, whose 2025 season is currently in full swing. “Il” is the trustee, compulsory in any condominium. Responsible for managing the building, he performs the decisions voted by co -owners at the general meeting and applies the co -ownership regulations, which specifies the rights and obligations of the inhabitants and the operating rules of the residence. A profession that “Suffers from a Bad image with the general public»»underlined the Paris Region Institute, in a note published in late 2024. In particular due to reactivity not always up to the fees paid by co -owners to trustees.

Still it would be necessary that the former really know how much the latter cost them. The UNIS, an organization bringing together co -ownership trustees, real estate agents and property administrators, asked the question to 1,100 co -owners. Published this month, the results of this survey, led by the Ipsos Institute, are edifying. No less than 40% of those questioned admit to GO ignore the amount of the fees they pay each month to their condominium trustee. A quarter of respondents have an idea “Approximate”. The remaining 35%, convinced to know “precisely” The monthly amount of their trustee’s fees, evaluate it to 141 euros on average. And 20% of them even cite a range of 200 to more than 400 euros…

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Trustee fees much lower than popular belief

Gold “Reality is between 15 and 30 euros monthly, all charges included”strangle with Capital Danielle Dubrac, President of the United. These 35% of co -owners who are convinced to know exactly how much their trustee costs them Would they not confuse fees and co-ownership charges ? “Yes, yet the question was well formulated, specifying that we only talked about the fees of the trustee and not of all the co -ownership charges”sighs Danielle Dubrac.

More broadly, the co -owners do not have a very precise knowledge of the role of the trustee. A very short majority of respondents (52%) support “See well” its missions but a little more than a third have only one vague idea and 14% simply ignore what its attributions are. This does not prevent nearly two thirds of the co -owners interviewed to say they are satisfied with their trustee … A trustee they expect above all from reactivity in emergency management, such as elevator breakdowns or cellar floods. As well as “Particular attention to contain the co -ownership charges while ensuring quality management”. In short, butter and butter money.

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“We have A real communication issue and margin of progression as to the visibility of our actions ”concludes Danielle Dubrac. The President of the United is particularly admitted (and unfavorably) “Impressed by the fact that 38% of residents do not identify any action implemented in the past two years by their condominium of their main residence in favor of the Ecological transition!»» A height with regard to “All the evil that we give ourselves to massify the renovation” energy of condominiums, she regrets.