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Nsw Strata Law A Comprehensive Legislature

NSW strata law of 1961 came up to counter the flaws of the company title scheme. Under the previous law individuals wanting to own units in multi level apartment buildings had to buy share certificates from the company that owned the building.
Conveyancing Act of 1961 came up for handling the legal ownership of a part or portion of a building or structure. Strata or strata title which was introduced in the state of NSW in Australia is gaining popularity day by day and millions of people are now residing in strata type property across the globe.
This act enabled the sub division of a building into independent units called lots and each of these lot owners received their own title certificate. This has an edge over the company share certificates because here the lot owners received title deeds for their part of the building and was able to get certain degree of freedom and financial security which was denied to them earlier.
Strata laws have gone through a lot of changes since its inception and new laws and amendments have been introduced to better the original one. The main regulations directly affecting the ...
... strata schemes are the NSW Strata Scheme Management Act 1996 and NSW Strata Scheme Regulation 2010.
Strata schemes are basically small communities which comprises of independent lot owners who own their units or apartments and share the ownership and responsibility of the common property. An individual buying a lot automatically becomes a member of the owner’s corporation who look after the common property and common facilities. Apart from attending regular meetings to discuss the different issues and formulating plans for the betterment of their scheme the lot owners have to pay the quarterly levies for the maintenance and pay for the sinking fund which is used for long term expenses.
Staying in a strata scheme differs from staying in a free standing house as thee are some life style restrictions and the residents have to abide by the scheme by- laws. To remove the obstacles involved in a strata type property the owner’s corporation generally hire the services of a reputed strata management company for the smooth running of a strata scheme. For a nominal retainer’s fee their strata managers who generally are licensed holders and have in depth knowledge about the strata living make the strata living an enjoyable experience.
While hiring the services of a strata management company it will save a lot of trouble if the owner’s corporation spends sometime to find a reputed strata management company with expert strata managers. It can be done through browsing the net, talking with friends and colleagues staying in other stratas and also by reading about the company.
As people have different ideas about finance some members prefer self management vs. hiring the services of an outside company. But once all the tasks that is involved in running a strata scheme is discussed it comes as no surprise when most of the people decide against self management.
The financial, administrative and secretarial task along with regular maintenance work, meetings and the other innumerable task performed by the strata managers make them the magician’s assistant who make his work look so effortless on the stage.
Christopher Whelan is a Licensed Strata manager at Whelan Property Group Pvt. Ltd. has years of experience in the marketing and trading Strata management. His online and offline knowledge regarding NSW strata law and schemes makes him a great resource of strata community.
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