BODY CORPORATE FINANCIAL DECISIONS: MEET PETER HUNT Following the opening of our October seminar series on the Sunshine Coast, we’re heading to the Gold Coast next Wednesday! As our Strata Community Education Seminar Series continues across Queensland, we’re excited to introduce our next lawyer guest speaker, Peter Hunt, Director at Mathews Hunt Legal, who will […]

FOREARMING THE COMMITTEE There are many rules and restraints on a committee’s ability to spend body corporate funds that can make it difficult to promptly deal with issues that arise. Compliance with these rules and restraints is a common feature of disputes that are made against a body corporate and its committee, or in the […]

BODY CORPORATE FINANCES: MEET JASON CARLSON NEXT WEEK The countdown is on! With just one week until our October Strata Community Education Seminar Series begins on the Sunshine Coast, we’re excited to introduce our first lawyer guest speaker, who will help unpack the legal and governance considerations behind body corporate finances. Jason Carlson, Practice Leader […]

ONE STORM, THREE CLAIMS When a severe storm hits a strata complex, the damage can extend far beyond a leaking ceiling or wet carpet. For owners, tenants, body corporate managers and committees, the hours and days that follow are often filled with uncertainty, phone calls, insurance paperwork and urgent decisions. What many people don’t realise […]

DEATH, TAX… AND BODY CORPORATE LEVIES There are three certainties in life: death, tax — and, if you own a lot in a Queensland community titles scheme, body corporate levies. For many Queensland lot owners, however, the third certainty is arriving at an increasingly difficult time. Australian households have spent the last several years absorbing […]