Each Christmas Santa checks his naughty or nice list to decide on where to deliver presents and who gets them. So, which Australian states are getting strata law Christmas presents this year? And, how much will they enjoy them over the holidays and in 2022 …

Elevators are an integral and essential part of strata title life for most of us. But, does anyone really enjoy them? Maybe there’s a way to change that and make elevators fun …

Since common property in strata buildings is real estate, it’s assumed it has value like every other piece of real estate. But, maybe that’s completely wrong and it’s valueless [at least in the conventional sense]. In this article, I start to explore alternative propositions about common property value …

Does anyone really want to be on a strata committee? Why not and what’s to be done about it? Does it mean the wrong people are running our strata buildings?

As another challenging year draws to a close, let’s get ready for the festive season with my take on the classic Christmas carol for all strata nerds. Enjoy …

From low rise walk-up strata apartment blocks in the 60’s and 70’s, we’ve seen bigger and bigger strata complexes each decade. But, they’ve also been getting taller and taller as the ABS’ analysis demonstrates.

We’re all trapped by conventional thinking and approaches to things that prevent experimentation, innovation and change. So, what if we challenged ourselves to reverse [or flip] our thinking; even as an experiment?. Here’s seven flipped over highrise buildings to open up your mind …

New South Wales strata buildings [along with other Australian strata buildings] have been going through a long and slow descent into building defect hell. But, hot on the heels of the NSW Building Commissioner and other changes comes the announcement of salvation in the form of Decennial Liability Insurance. So, will this be the solution we’ve all been waiting for, or, just a step into another level in Dante’s Inferno …

For strata apartment buyers size does matter: even if developers tell them it’s their designs, layouts and finishes that make all the difference. So, this recent Victorian Supreme Court case that overrode sale contract provisions where some new apartments shrunk before completion and a few other strata changes were made is welcome news for buyers …

It’s great that Australian [and New Zealand] cities keep winning and making the top ten in the global liveable cities rankings, but what are they, how do they work, and, what is the relevance to strata title stakeholders …

The NSW Court of Appeal decides Trentelmans Case by holding the hotel/motel operator to promises made at a strata meeting and giving the strata owners and corporation permanent rights to the pool despite them voting to give them away as part of a redevelopment proposal. Seems a fair enough decision, but there are also a few extra tasty legal gems for all the strata geeks out there …

For more than 25 years I’ve pursued strata developers and builders over strata building defects, but whilst they affected building compliance and strata owners’ and residents’ amenity, they could still live in their apartments. That seems to have changed and I wonder what’s going on …

Do strata committees and strata owners squabble instead of dealing with important issues or is that just an all too easy trope? Let’s consider a recent US story arising after the Surfside Condo collapse and why it might be true there, here, and elsewhere.

In the entrepreneurial world of tech start-ups when things aren’t working; you pivot. So, when no-one wants to buy your product or service, we find something else for it to do. That’s why Strata Dog is now Build it Dog.

The Chinese property developer, Evergrande Group, is heading for one or another kind of collapse with uncertain international and Australian impacts. So, what’s the latest news on this story, and what do real experts say about it …

It’s time for an NSW strata owners’ meeting refresher [in a few parts]. So, let’s work out when and how to set up strata owners’ meetings in New South Wales.

The persistence of Covid 19 means that the ‘work from home’ phenomenon is becoming more normal and is here to stay. So, what does that mean for the many and varied strata workers who do things at and for strata buildings? And, is their strata work future, the same, better or worse …

Since we’ve all been to hundreds [or thousands] of strata owners’ meetings, we treat them as routine. But, they’re a complex outcome of many technical and cross-dependent elements which can unexpectedly unravel at or after the meeting.

So, it’s time for some strata owners’ meeting refreshers.