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Strata development

Strata Development Pipeline report 2019

PRDnationwide recently released their “Strata Development Pipeline Capital City Metro Areas” report for 2019. This report is a treasure trove of information relating to the pipeline of strata developments in…

Enforcing an adjudicators order.

Enforcing an Adjudicator’s Order

By Gary Bugden* One way to resolve a body corporate dispute is to obtain an Adjudicator’s order to compel a person to do something, or to refrain from doing something….

Building Management Statement

What is a Building Management Statement?

A building management statement (“BMS”) is essentially an agreement between two or more entities that share and maintain a particular area or service within a building.  It is the key…

Strata Committee Members

Duties of Committee Members

Being elected as a committee member in Queensland is more significant than what most owners think. Decisions of a committee are decisions of the body corporate and its powers must…

Neighbours

Don’t forget the formalities!

For lot owners in smaller body corporate schemes, particularly in 2 lot schemes, it may be tempting to neglect some of the formalities required under body corporate or owners corporation…

Building defects

Are retro strata buildings back in vogue?

Strata managers and lawyers will tell you building defects have been a consistent issue in the apartment sector for many years. The problem however has not been highlighted to the…

Australia Strata Titles

Strata Titles – Australia’s least known export product.

By – Gary Bugden OAM* Strata titles was first introduced in NSW in 1961 to replace a range of apartment ‘ownership’ schemes which arose during the post-war housing crisis in…

Bond University becomes first Australian university to offer strata as a subject

Bugden Allen Lawyers partner, Gary Bugden, has accepted a professorial appointment at Bond University to deliver a new subject, “Strata and Community Titles”. The new subject is being offered as…

Launch of Australia’s most authoritative strata law firm

On 1st July 2019, it was announced that Bugden Legal, a boutique law firm in Brisbane, merged with Sydney-based Allen Partners and will now be known as Bugden Allen Lawyers. Bugden Allen…

A timely reminder about defamation

Defamation appears to be a popular topic of late. Following Geoffrey Rush’s award of the largest personal defamation payout in Australian legal history, comes a residential apartment tenant who was…

Child Safety Window Devices

Following a spate of child deaths from falling out of windows, the New South Wales Government introduced a Bill in 2015 to require certain owners corporations to install window safety…