The research presented in the paper is aimed at determining possibilities for collecting historic data on the maintenance and use of buildings of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek. Surveys and questionnaires were prepared and used to collect data about the above mentioned costs, as well as the data on the properties of buildings, and on the way in which they were used for a defined time period. The data collected in this way were statistically analyzed and presented in this paper.
