The article focuses on the important role of the contract as a regulator of relations for the management of an apartment building.It is established that the value of the contract of the management of apartment building as a transaction is that its conclusion by a singlewill of the parties, first, indicates the onset of legal consequences in the form of a simultaneous legal relationship between its parties,and secondly, expresses the focus of joint action of the parties to achieve the desired results and, as a consequence, giving the partiesto the contract mutual rights and obligations in the field of apartment building management.During considering the concept of the contract of the management of apartment building, we should not only proceed from itslegal nature, which reveals the essence of the contract as a legal fact that generates certain legal consequences, but also take into accountits essence as an obligation due to the conclusion of this contract. Accordingly, the specifics of the subject of legal relations from thecontract of management of an apartment building is primarily that one of the parties to the contract is a specialized subject of civil law –an individual-entrepreneur or legal entity-entrepreneur, which under the agreement with co-owners provides proper maintenance andrepair of common property of an apartment building and adjacent territory and proper living conditions and household needs.In the context of the study of the contract of the management of apartment building regarding the object of obligatory legal relationsmediated by it, it is established in view of its legal name that its object is apartment building management services. The subjectof the contract of the management of apartment building is proposed to be understood as a set of legal and factual actions that shouldbe taken to achieve the purpose of the contract. It follows that the subject of the contract under study is the activities of the manager toprovide services for the management of an apartment building (or in general – the management of an apartment building); in this case,the apartment building, including indoor premises and adjacent territory, should be perceived as a material object of the contract understudy and the subject composition.Separately within the limits of the article the basic characteristic features of the contract of management of the apartment houseare allocated, among which: 1) civil-law nature of relations on management of the apartment building; 2) the specificity of the subjectcomposition of the contract; 3) the dual legal and material nature of the object of binding legal relations; 4) a special subject of the stu -died contract.