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Owners across Australia are sacking their strata managers and running their own buildings. A Guardian feature and a Victorian review lay out why trust in the commercial model has broken — and where member-owned management fits.

New South Wales' strata reforms are a step forward - but regulation addresses the symptoms of a broken system, not the cause. The structural conflict of interest at the heart of traditional strata management remains.

NSW has delivered its biggest strata law overhaul in a decade. Hidden fees, undisclosed commissions and structural conflicts of interest were exposed. And the same conditions exist in South Australia right now.

A 251-charger installation at Sierra Hawthorn by NOX Energy demonstrates that large-scale EV charging in strata buildings is achievable, challenging long-standing resistance from building managers and committees.

A deep dive into Australian strata management regulation, revisiting a 1994 CHOICE Magazine exposé and examining what has — and hasn't — changed in three decades.

ABC's Four Corners investigation revealed phantom fees, secret insurance kickbacks, developer conflicts of interest and corporate consolidation trapping millions of Australian apartment owners in an unregulated industry worth $7 billion a year.

The ACT has become the latest jurisdiction to recommend sweeping strata reform. South Australia hasn't moved - and the structural conflict driving the problems interstate is alive and well here too.

An ACT Legislative Assembly inquiry has handed down 33 recommendations for strata reform - licensing, a Strata Commissioner, a no-cause right to sack your manager and tighter commission disclosure. Here is what is in it.

Philosopher Alain de Botton argues that modern life's quiet unhappiness has a single underlying cause: we evolved to live in tight-knit groups of twenty or thirty, and most of us don't anymore. A reflection on what that diagnosis means for strata and community-title living.