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By Emma Smythies* New legislative reforms for off-the-plan contracts for sale in NSW will become effective from 1 December 2019.  The reforms in the Conveyancing Legislation Amendment Act 2018 and Conveyancing (Sale of Land)…

By Gary Bugden OAM* Forward This article was written by Gary Bugden in 2012 and published in Inside Strata Magazine. When the article was written in 2012, the $52 per…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…