About the October 2025 edition
The October 2025 edition of The QLD Strata Magazine covers body corporate financial governance, by-law enforcement, and fire safety documentation across Queensland schemes. Key topics include developer powers to enforce special levies at first meetings, building manager unfair influence in elections, selective service levying, and smoke drift by-law obligations. The edition also addresses electricity provider comparisons for cost savings, deadlock installation confirmation for insurance, locked-out occupier rights, and visitor parking towing authority.
- Access denied: what can the body corporate do if entry is refused? – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate
- Leading the way in strata funding – Lannock Strata Finance
- Do freestanding houses in a two-lot scheme need shared building insurance? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions
- Can a body corporate ban the burning of incense? – Jarad Maher, Grace Lawyers
- Committees need a different mindset for managing money – Frank Higginson, Redchip Strata Law
- How can bodies corporate confirm deadlock installations for insurance purposes? – Grant Mifsud, Archers
- Can a body corporate levy all owners for a service that only some agreed to and use? – Todd Garsden, Mahoneys
- Should strata residents regularly compare electricity providers to save money? – Altogether Group
- What counts as 'unfair influence' by a building manager in committee elections? – Chris Irons, Strata Solve
- Can a body corporate refuse to act on smoke drift if they haven't updated the by-laws? – Todd Garsden, Mahoneys
- Special levies at first meetings: do developers have the power to enforce them? – Frank Higginson, Redchip Strata Law
- Fire safety documentation: Your legal shield in the event of a fire – Stefan Bauer, Fire Matters
- Someone's made an offer to buy my strata management business - what do I do? – Strata Business Brokers
- Levy disputes and ownership changes: who keeps the refund? – Michael Kleinschmidt, Bugden Allen
- What should occupiers do if they are locked out of their strata lot? – Alanna Hill, Mathews Hunt Legal
- Can individual owners tow cars from visitor parking spaces? – Chris Irons, Strata Solve
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