NCAT

Sydney strata manager appeals 10-year ban for accessing funds without approval

2024-08-07T12:27:03+10:00

One of Sydney’s highest profile strata managers is appealing against a ruling that saw him banned for 10 years for a multitude of allegations, including failing to act with honesty, fairness and professionalism and accessing apartment buildings’ funds without approval. That same manager – despite having numerous complaints against him with the state government tribunal – had also, by the same body, been given total control over schemes that were in [...]

Sydney strata manager appeals 10-year ban for accessing funds without approval2024-08-07T12:27:03+10:00

‘Confidence is waning’: New strata commissioner’s urgent task to support high-rise city

2024-02-05T15:39:47+11:00

2 FEBRUARY 2024 A plan to build millions of apartments across Sydney will falter without major changes to the laws underpinning ownership and management of the properties, the state’s new strata commissioner warns. “The whole issue around housing supply, around affordability, and ultimately social and economic wellbeing, requires strata to be successful and requires people to have confidence in strata, and I guess the concern is there are areas where confidence [...]

‘Confidence is waning’: New strata commissioner’s urgent task to support high-rise city2024-02-05T15:39:47+11:00

The ‘extra obstacle’ for owners clashing with body corporates over building defects

2023-07-19T17:35:13+10:00

16 JULY 2023 The number of people applying for strata scheme mediation has surged by 45 per cent in five years as owners clash with owners corporations over building defects and repairs. The average wait time for parties to meet with a mediator was three months, NSW Fair Trading confirmed, while it takes another four months on average for a resolution for those who escalated the issue to the NSW Civil [...]

The ‘extra obstacle’ for owners clashing with body corporates over building defects2023-07-19T17:35:13+10:00

Relief for Residents Locked Out of Own Reception After Bitter Dispute

2022-03-21T11:47:26+11:00

A 25-year contract originally sold by developer Meriton for hundreds of thousands of dollars, giving another company exclusive rights for property management and letting services in one of their multi-storey apartment complexes, has been cancelled by a tribunal in a first for NSW. Apartment residents who successfully challenged the contract that earned Meriton an extra $310,000, in a practice that is now outlawed by the NSW Government, and which tied the [...]

Relief for Residents Locked Out of Own Reception After Bitter Dispute2022-03-21T11:47:26+11:00

Latest NCAT decision on by-laws affecting the keeping of animals

2021-03-10T19:32:41+11:00

9 MARCH 2021 - OCN Statement On 1 March 2021, NCAT senior member R C Titterton OAM handed down a decision in the matter of McGregor v The Owners – Strata Plan Nº 74896.   The building in which Mr McGregor and his partner live is part of a complex in Camperdown where each of the individual stratas is required to comply with the by-laws of the Community Management Statement for [...]

Latest NCAT decision on by-laws affecting the keeping of animals2021-03-10T19:32:41+11:00

Sydney pet owners get shock win in the battle against apartment pet bans

2020-10-07T04:21:26+11:00

26 AUGUST 2020 It could soon be near-impossible for any apartment building to vote to keep pets out after a last-minute amendment to an unrelated bill scored a shock win in the NSW Legislative Council just before 10pm on Tuesday night. The move by the Animal Justice Party (AJP) means that, if the bill is passed by the Lower House in September, no strata scheme will be allowed to have a [...]

Sydney pet owners get shock win in the battle against apartment pet bans2020-10-07T04:21:26+11:00

Puddle sets off epic dog fight

2020-10-07T04:24:39+11:00

22 AUGUST 2020 The day her miniature schnauzer urinated in the lobby of her luxury Sydney apartment block is one of the most traumatic of Jo Cooper’s 30-plus years. There is never a good time for a dog to wee in a lavish foyer, although Cooper insists it’s not much different to the coffee and salad spillages she has witnessed over five years of living in the award-winning, officially pet-free building. [...]

Puddle sets off epic dog fight2020-10-07T04:24:39+11:00

Strata loophole leaves owners vulnerable even when NCAT is supposed to be on their side

2020-10-08T12:50:43+11:00

18 FEBRUARY 2020 Every time Jan Newland leaves her apartment in a building on Sydney’s lower north shore, she checks the sky for signs of rain. And if there are darkening clouds, she pushes her lounge room furniture into the middle of the room, rolls up part of her carpet, puts down containers and hopes against hope it doesn’t rain. Newland has had leaks coming through her ceiling since work to [...]

Strata loophole leaves owners vulnerable even when NCAT is supposed to be on their side2020-10-08T12:50:43+11:00

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