NEED A SCHEME?
Leaky building? Significant repairs? Large-scale maintenance project? A body corporate facing significant building works to repair building defects and associated damage, or replace building components at the end [...]
WHEN IS A DISPUTE NOT A DISPUTE?
In Body Corporate 375933 v Tenancy Tribunal [2017] HCNZ 1619, the High Court considered whether the Tenancy Tribunal had jurisdiction and/or discretion to hear a dispute between a [...]
Is the short stay rental boom worsening the housing shortage?
As featured in stuff.co.nz Joanne Barreto, president of the Strata Community Association, which represents body corporates, says Airbnb's growth is having a huge impact in apartment buildings. Complaints [...]
Layered Developments
A layered development is the creation of a new unit title development within an existing unit title development – a little like a Russian Doll. Sections 19-22 of [...]
Unit Titles Legislation Review – Working Group Update
As you may be aware Property 101 Group Director & SCA(NZ) President, Joanne Barreto was on the Working Group for the Better Body Corporates initiative that spearheaded the [...]
Top lawyer reveals apartment ‘wars’: what owners fight about
Anne Gibson has shared just a snippet of the pearls of wisdom following our hugely successful SCA(NZ)/ADSL symposium last week. Several SCA(NZ) members and industry leaders shared their [...]
REDEVELOPMENT
The Unit Titles Act 2010 provides for unit owners and the body corporate to amend or replace the unit plan by carrying out a “redevelopment”. A redevelopment [...]
Earthquake-prone buildings – Leglislation Update
The Building (Earthquake-Prone Buildings) Amendment Act 2016 (“EPB Act”) came into force on 1 July 2017. It amends the Building Act 2004 by introducing a new nation-wide [...]