What is Strata Management (Body Corporate Management)?

A body corporate can engage a body corporate manager to supply administrative services to the body corporate. If a body corporate has chosen a committee, the body corporate manager is engaged to help the committee. The manager can only do what the body corporate asks them to.  The duties of the manager are contained in the written engagement (Strata Management Agreement) entered into with the body corporate.  For more information on our duties, please refer to your Strata Management Agreement or contact our office.

A body corporate manager automatically becomes a non-voting member of the body corporate committee. The voting members of the committee can ask a manager not to attend a committee meeting. The manager is not responsible for the maintenance of the common property, but may organise work if the committee asks them to.  The committee’s powers are not lessened by the authority given to the manager. Executive members of the committee can still act within their authority (e.g. the secretary can still call a committee meeting if asked to do so).

Pinnacle Strata is a professional Body Corporate Management Company that prides itself on customer service and attention to detail. We take a proactive approach to Body Corporate Management by providing expert management, financial services, problem solving and owner education.  We are dedicated to providing exceptional service and value to our clients. 

What is a Body Corporate?

“Strata” is a word commonly used in all states of Australia and overseas to describe the subdivision of property into lots (which are individually owned) and common property (which is property and facilities shared by the owners). The language is different in different jurisdictions but the concepts are the same.

In Queensland, the “Body Corporate” is the legal entity created when the plan of subdivision is registered in the titles office.   For a short time the original developer is the sole member of the Body Corporate. There are restrictions on what a developer can do during this time to avoid abuses of this power, which can work against future members of the Body Corporate.

The purpose of the Body Corporate is to control, manage and maintain the common property. The common property is property that is not within a lot.  The powers of a Body Corporate (and hence the Committee) are quite limited. They include enforcing the rules about the use of common property (by laws), collecting money from the owners to pay for the cost of repairs and maintenance of common property and other costs of running the Body Corporate, and keeping the records of the Body Corporate.