Taking Charge of Your Building: A Guide to the Strata Council

Key Takeaways Shape your living environment: Your vote at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) is a powerful tool to elevate your building’s financial health and community spirit. Leverage governance for harmony: Understanding the Strata Titles Act 1985 (WA) and your scheme’s by-laws empowers owners to maintain a peaceful, respectful standard of living. Protect your asset […]

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The Challenges of Large Lot Strata Management

Living in a sprawling strata complex or a towering high-rise comes with distinct advantages. You gain access to premium amenities. You share the financial load of major property upkeep. You belong to a readymade community. Running that community is an entirely different story. Managing a large lot strata property is essentially running a small town. […]

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The Annual General Meeting (AGM): Your Guide to Effective Participation

Your strata property is a major financial asset. The Annual General Meeting (AGM) decides how that asset is managed, maintained, and funded. This yearly gathering is where lot owners vote on budgets, elect the strata council, and set the rules for the community. Show up unprepared, and you risk leaving disappointed with the outcomes. Walk […]

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Two tradesmen performing renovation work in a strata complex.

Transforming Your Home: A Friendly Guide to Strata Renovations

Renovating your home is an exciting milestone. In a Western Australian strata community, your journey is shared with your neighbors. Because certain parts of your building-like the roof and external walls-are can be common property (owned by all owners), there is a helpful approval process in place. This ensures that every upgrade remains safe, keeps […]

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Buying or Selling in a Strata Scheme: Key Checks for WA Buyers

Essential insights for navigating the Western Australian strata market. Buying or selling a strata property in Western Australia is different from a typical home transaction. Strata living involves shared ownership, collective decision-making, and ongoing financial commitments – so understanding the health of the strata scheme before you sign is essential. Whether you’re purchasing or preparing […]

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Understanding Strata Roles in WA: Owners, Councils and Strata Managers

Why Roles Matter in WA Strata Strata living is incredibly common across Western Australia. Whether you live in a unit, townhouse, villa complex or a mixed-use building, you are part of what is known as a strata scheme. That means you share ownership of certain parts of the property – like roofs, driveways, stairwells and […]

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