Housing society

For the Hong Kong organization, see Hong Kong Housing Society.

A housing society or apartment associations is a situation popular in India with a group of house owners within a residential complex, usually one consisting of buildings that each have flats. A housing society's apartments or premises are formed as per relevant laws for smooth functioning of utilities and other amenities provided to them. The housing society formed must be formally registered with registrar of co-operatives. In India, each state has its own rules in this regard. Each building in same premise may have separate housing society or one. Many housing societies form one federation. Housing societies run on the service charges levied by them on house or flat owners. Some of the housing societies in Mumbai are cash rich, having millions of rupees in their bank account.

The Managing Committee takes care of the affairs of the Housing Society like appointment of service providers, maintenance of Society premises, solving member's greivances, maintenance of books of accounts and taking care of safety and security. "CloudSociety" ( http://www.cloudsociety.in ) A Housing Society Management Tool is made available to help housing societies all over India by the group of people from Mumbai, India. This is one of the best accounting software for housing society or apartment associations. Technically this is a pure Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) module of Cloud Technology. (Refer: http://housing-society-security.blogspot.in/)

See also

• Homeowners association
• Internet based a Housing Society Management Tool in the Cloud
• Encyclopedia for Co-operative Housing Society
• Web based management tool for Co-operative Housing Society
• Service Provider for Society Billing and Accounts, Compliance & Property matter