What is a typical HOA management fee per unit?

Nationally, most portfolio management falls somewhere between about $12 and $30 per unit per month, but that range is so wide as to be nearly useless without the qualifiers, and the qualifiers are where the answer actually lives.

Four things move it more than anything else. Density — a 300-unit high-rise costs less per door to manage than a 40-unit townhome association, because the fixed work is spread further. Market — coastal metros run materially above inland ones. Product type — co-ops and high-rises with staff cost more than garden-style HOAs. And scope — a fee that includes meeting attendance, collections coordination and reserve support is not comparable to one that bills each separately.

Small associations are where the per-unit figure breaks down entirely. Below roughly fifty units, most firms price to a monthly minimum rather than per door, and the effective per-unit rate can double.

Use per-unit figures to sanity-check an outlier, never to pick a winner. The number that matters is the three-year total with every ancillary charge you will actually incur, and no per-unit average will produce it.