Legislation

July 2025 – BCCM Form 33 Body corporate certificate

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From August 1 2025, new property legislation is impacting the Queensland body corporate landscape. In the new legislation, there is much more responsibility on lot owners who are selling their lot to disclose information to potential buyers. ‘Buyer beware’ will be less of a catchcry because the seller is now obligated to inform the buyer […]

Best practice

April 2024 – Body corporate police

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Fun fact! There are no body corporate policemen. The Queensland Body Corporate and Community Management (BCCM) legislation is overwhelming. The Act combined with the associated regulation together exceeds 600 pages. The documentation is extremely prescriptive. For a self managed scheme, this can be very helpful so that committees can use the documentation to administer their […]

Issues

January 2024 – Body corporate account reconstruction

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We’ve just finished successfully setting up a new DIY client who has terminated their existing body corporate manager. Unfortunately, this was done just prior to the end of the financial year of the body corporate and we were required to reconstruct in excess of 300 transactions. The prior body corporate manager was not helpful and […]