The article is devoted to changes in state regulation of activities of apartment buildings management. The author proposes the ways of increasing the efficiency of the mechanism of legal regulation of business activities in the market for housing and communal services. On the basis of the analysis the author determines possible ways to streamline the activities of the participants in the market for housing and communal services by means of self-regulation. The article provides the analysis of amendments to the legislation concerning licensing activities in the sphere of managing apartment buildings. The author thoroughly examined the procedure of forming a licensing committee, licensing requirements for managers, the procedure of issuing and cancelling licenses of management organizations. The article considers the procedure of keeping data registrars that contain information on licensing the activities of the management of apartment buildings. Special attention is paid to the issue of the right of a management company to manage an apartment building. The author considers the peculiarities of interrelation between companies providing resources and management companies in the market of housing and commune services and tries to differentiate responsibility between the participants for the quality of the services provided to the consumers.