*** FULLY BOOKED *** C6 Working with Commercial Strata Titles (FREE Lunch & Learn Event)

1 CPD Point, Face to Face (SLPL34)

The workshop is intended to provide an overview of strata titles concepts and issues from a commercial property perspective, including with respect to the management and sale of commercial strata lots.

Specific areas covered by the workshop will include:

• key concepts under the Strata Titles Act 1985 (WA), including:
  • strata vs survey-strata;
  • lots vs common property;
  • strata managers, strata councils, and strata companies;
  • scheme plans, unit entitlements, scheme notices, and scheme by-laws; and
  • administrative fund and reserve fund levies;
• the general division of responsibility between lot owners and strata companies;
• the interpretation and impact of scheme by-laws, including exclusive use by-laws;
• the circumstances in which strata company approval may be required to undertake work;
• issues associated with the management of retail tenancies, including when a strata scheme may be a “retail shopping centre” for the purposes of the Commercial Tenancy (Retail Shops) Agreements Act 1985 (WA), and limitations on the recovery of strata management fees from retail shop lease tenants via administrative fund levies;
• how the Act regulates the sale and purchase of existing or proposed strata and survey-strata lots; and
• the resolution of strata scheme disputes.