 Strata News & Information
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Welcome to this edi tion of Your Strata News, coming to you from Koh Phangan, Thailand.
The contents of this edition of Strata News have been chosen by you - our LookUpStrata site visitors! As we inch closer to our 100th Newsletter, we thought we would take a look back over the years since LookUpStrata's launch on the 3rd February, 2013. Below we feature the all time, ever, most visited page, plus the top 5 articles based on most views.
Do you have a favourite LookUpStrata page or article you keep coming back to? Please let me know!
Our newsletters have changed quite a bit over the years. Our very first newsletter was sent out mid 2013 to around 60 subscribers. For quite a while, newsletters were sent out on a fortnightly basis. As more and more information was published to the site, we started sending publications out each week around September 2015. One of our earliest newsletter, this one from 24 June 2013, can be seen here.
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THE Strata Directory provides a dedicated database of businesses and services for strata managers and owners. Whether strata lawyers or financial advisors are required - plumbing, electrical or handyman work is needed Australia wide - you'll find what you're looking for here.
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Strata Legislation
With over 46,000 page views since March 2013, we can see this page is a valued resources. Listing and linking to strata title legislation for each and every state and territory in Australia, this LookUpStrata page is one to be bookmarked!
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Top 5 Most Viewed Articles
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#1 - How To Find Units With Low Body Corporate Fees
Lisa Rutland, mybodycorpreport.com.au
Why do body corporate fees vary so widely? The levies in a building reflect the cost of running that building and size really does matter!
This article, written in February 2014, has had almost 15,000 page views.
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#2 - Parking...A Perennial Issue
Peter Brodbeck, Vesture Limited
Parking is a perennial issue in strata schemes due to increasing population and the greater number of vehicles. In inner urban areas these problems are exacerbated because cars which were not commonplace when many suburbs were created now typically have residents with two or more cars to one unit and often there is little, if any parking, within the property. This is not to say that parking problems are confined to inner city areas. Far from it, wherever there are cars there are parking problems.
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#3 - What is a Strata Inspection Report?
Paul Mulligan, Find Our Home
A strata inspection report is necessary for all purchasers of a strata, community or company titled property - whether it be residential or commercial.
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#4 - QLD: Pets in Body Corporates
Kelly Borell, Tower Body Corporate Administration
Some body corporate schemes adopted by-laws that state all animals are banned from the scheme, only to have lot owners challenging the validity of the by-laws down the track. So, what is a reasonable response to handling the issue of pets in body corporates?
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 #5 - QLD: Can a Body Corporate Tow A Car?
Hynes Legal
The word on the street is that by-law enforcement will be a part of the next discussion paper issued under the Queensland government property law review. The law on this point - can a body corporate tow a car - is frustrating and, to a large extent, toothless. Some changes are being explored across the industry which will no doubt be part of the discussion paper.
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The New Daily
The massive wave of new apartments scheduled to hit the market could trigger a crisis as skint buyers become unable to complete their purchases, according to new data from Core Logic RP Data. That ‘settlement risk’ is highest in Melbourne and Brisbane, where the supply jump in new apartments is expected to be the highest.
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Leesha McKenny and Jacob Saulwick, SMH
More than four times as dense as the current densest area in Australia, Pyrmont, which houses 14,000 people per square kilometre. The Green Square area, which is already an emerging transport nightmare, is planned to house a comparatively modest 22,000 people per square kilometre.
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