The NSW government’s Customer Service department says Property Services and Strata Commissioner John Minns is “providing full support” to its inquiries following allegations surrounding his investments in a property management…
There’s been considerable speculation about NSW Strata Commissioner John Minns this week after the revelation on an ABC news report last week that he has retained a significant holding in…
There’s an old saying in strata – the smaller the block, the bigger the problems. When everyone knows each other, any points of conflict can quickly become personal. Add to…
With all the various defamation trials we’ve seen recently, it’s only natural that anyone who’s going to criticise anyone for anything might be a little concerned. And before I type…
In this week’s podcast, we look at why a problem in a company title block would have been much easier to resolve had the apartment been in a strata building.…
Here in strata, your building will hire a lot of people to help look after its and your interests. There’s probably a strata manager, there may be a building facilities…
There’s a really interesting post on the Forum about the first year in a new block’s life, but it has been sitting there for a week with a stack of…
It’s that time of year again, when strata experts drag themselves away from their research projects and academic papers to pass on their wisdom at seminars and workshops. The next…
This has absolutely nothing to do with strata, unless you count the fact that it was written in a flat in Kings Cross and the hero lives in a pad…
So the NSW Fair Trading Minister has revealed his law changes in the wake of the Netstrata scandal and they are, as one strata insider put it, like being slapped on the…
It seems one person’s regulation is another’s backdoor legitimacy, if the reaction to this week’s anticipated “crackdown” on strata managers by NSW Fair Trading is anything to go by. Minister…
Sometimes you just have to wonder why strata owners make life more difficult for themselves, twisting themselves into pretzels to find ways of doing stuff that the law clearly does…