The NSW Land and Environment recently made its first order giving effect to a strata renewal plan under Part 10 of the Strata Schemes Development Act 2015 (NSW).

The ideal for strata living would probably be best described as attempting to achieve a happy, comfortable (and perhaps perfect) unity between the residents of a building, with those residents regularly coming together to discuss and agree upon ways and …

In the NSW Court of Appeal case of The Owners – Strata Plan No 91322 v Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Archdiocese of Sydney [2019] NSWCA 89 the Court decided the owners corporation and lot owners, holding title under a 99-year …

Where a smaller lot with the benefit of an easement and another lot are consolidated into a larger lot, does the benefit of the easement pass to the whole of the new lot?

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal recently considered whether a notice of an extraordinary general meeting that did not comply with the requirements of strata legislation rendered invalid a resolution passed by the owners corporation at the meeting.

The NSW Supreme Court recently considered an owners corporation’s failure to strictly comply with strata legislation in relation to AGM notices and the effect of this failure on decisions purportedly made by the owners corporation at those AGMs.

With the increasing prevalence of property owners renting their property short-term, there have been moves by the State Government towards increasing the regulation of short-term accommodation in New South Wales.

A dissenting owner in a strata renewal application may have concerns as to whether the owners corporation has enough funds to cover that owner’s costs of the proceedings.

A recent NCAT case has given a owner who carried out unauthorised work to her lot a pathway to retrospective authorisation of the work.

In two recent cases, the NSW Land and Environment Court considered whether a proposed purchaser under a strata renewal plan for the collective sale of all lots in a strata scheme could be joined to proceedings.