About the October 2026 edition
The October 2026 edition of The QLD Strata Magazine covers the questions Queensland lot owners and committees face around selling, insurance and fire safety. Articles look at appointing a body corporate manager to help with a lot sale, record-keeping problems for small schemes at sale time, budgeting for building insurance, and whether owners who volunteer their expertise are covered by body corporate insurance. The edition also covers smoke detector compliance before purchase, who is responsible for fire compliance and fire damper repairs, caretaker obligations over common property keys, building managers renting out car parks, and owner notification for minor voting outside committee (VOC) decisions.
- Can I insist we appoint a body corporate manager so I can sell my lot? – William Marquand, Tower Body Corporate
- Must the committee estimate the building insurance in the annual budget? – Tyrone Shandiman, Strata Insurance Solutions
- Small schemes face record-keeping headache at sale time – Frank Higginson, Redchip Strata Law
- Who pays to fix ceilings opened for fire damper repairs? – Brendan Pitman, Grace Lawyers
- Must a caretaker hand over common property keys to the committee? – Todd Garsden, Mahoneys
- Can a building manager rent out common property car parks? – Sarah Mumford, BAC Insurance Brokers
- Do minor VOC decisions require owner notification? – Chris Irons, Strata Solve
- Is my apartment’s smoke detector compliant before I buy? – Stefan Bauer, Fire Matters
- Isn’t the fire contractor responsible for my body corporate’s fire compliance? – Stefan Bauer, Fire Matters
- Are owners who volunteer their expertise covered by body corporate insurance? – Eleni Svinos, Cohabit
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