• Read more about When administrator appointments in Queensland become necessary and how to make the responsible party pay

When can an administrator be appointed to a Queensland body corporate, and how can the costs be recovered from the responsible person?

Administrator appointments in Queensland are a structured legal mechanism designed to resolve serious dysfunction or enforce compliance when other options have failed. While legislation usually requires all owners to share the cost, courts may allow costs to be recovered from the responsible party if their conduct caused the administration.

• Read more about Why independent advice matters when planning lift replacements in strata

Lift replacement is one of the most significant capital decisions an owners corporation will face, directly affecting safety, compliance, property values, and residents' day-to-day experience. If the owners corporation gets it right, the building can benefit for decades. Get it wrong, and costs can escalate quickly.

During this webinar, Andrew Batynski from ABN Lift Consultants explained how a structured, independent approach to lift maintenance helps strata schemes across Australia to plan lift upgrades with clarity, confidence, and long-term value.

• Read more about Strata managers who work smarter will outlast the ones who work harder

Profit margins are down. Staff turnover is high. Owner expectations keep rising. And the average strata management business is now running 5.1 different technology tools, most of which don't talk to each other. In last week's LookUpStrata webinar, Leya Wall from Town Square stated this isn't a people problem. It's a systems problem. And it's one that the right technology, chosen and implemented well, can actually fix.

• Read more about The smarter, most cost effective way out of a Queensland caretaker dispute that most committees never consider

Queensland's management rights landscape has frustrated body corporate committees for decades. Caretaking agreements run for up to 25 years. Performance obligations are often worded so loosely that enforcement is nearly impossible. And the formal dispute process is so complex, expensive, and uncertain that many committees simply give up.

• Read more about Strata Defects & Risky Buildings – Practical tips on what to look for before buying an apartment in NSW

After reading an ABC news article about recent troubles at another NSW apartment building with severe defects, the article mentioned that the Owners had been pursuing the builder for defects since 2018.

A new apartment owner purchased into the scheme in May and seemed to have known nothing about the problems when he purchased just 6 months ago.

• Read more about Helping your body corporate deal with an emergency like flooding

Our thoughts are with those affected by the flooding on the East Coast. Please stay safe.

Will Marquand, General Manager from Tower Body Corporate is joining me to speak about the event and the types of damage buildings are seeing, especially in the southeast Queensland area. We hope this information aids both body corporate owners and committees dealing with an emergency. We discuss what to do now, ways committees can navigate the issues they are facing and what you can do in your building to mitigate risks in the future.

• Read more about Who’s actually holding the risk in your body corporate? It’s probably not who you think.

Risk in a body corporate context is rarely where people expect it to be. That was the central message from Frank Higginson, partner and strata lawyer at Redchip Strata Law, during a recent LookUpStrata Queensland webinar. Frank didn't present theory. He presented war stories — real cases from his desk that show exactly what happens when risk goes unmanaged, unacknowledged, or quietly passes to someone else.

It's not me. It must be you.