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Strata law changes land in wave after wave

There's a whole raft of strata law changes coming into force in NSW - and that's just the start with another wave due later this year.

When your off-the-plan developer starts bending the rules and testing the law, pray the only people on your side aren't strata newbies.

Productivity and Equality Commission report says phasing out insurance commissions for strata managers will save state millions.

Forum: Fostering cats when permission costs $100 a moggie, how UEs favour the rich, fixing mould in a rented flat and proxy farming.

Mandatory training for NSW strata committee members should be in place later this year - and now we know what it will look like.

QUIRKY: Queensland resort Island residents with no utilities now have to pay service providers $22m in backdated fees.

NEWS: New laws will fine real estate agents for under-quoting to trick potential buyers and stop them from conealing prices on their listings.

Your unit entitlements may give you higher levies but more voting power - harking back to the olden days when only landowners could vote.

Forum: Unapproved renos, Communications breakdown, Zoom ban for AGM, tree roots bursting pipes, sacking the SM, recount in resolved vote.

NEWS: It's taken 10 years to track them down, but the NSW Crime Commission has seized $30m worth of the Obeids' hidden property assets.

QUIRKY: It's the size of a two-bed apartment... but it's totally underground. Plus a raft of weird and wonderful property yarns.

Two must-attend webinars cover water leaks and impending new strata laws - and they're free.