Residential, Retail & Commercial
From duplexes to multi-unit strata schemes, we will help you meet your statutory compliance obligations and protect your investment. We will ensure your property is professionally maintained and impeccably presented, with repairs completed to a high standard and in a timely fashion.
Countrywide Strata Management specialises in providing exceptional management of residential, commercial and retail buildings. Our team has extensive experience in managing properties of varying size and complexity, and provides a range of services to ensure your property is maintained to the highest standard.
Our residential, commercial and retail portfolio extends across New South Wales and ranges from quaint retail spaces and heritage homes to large building complexes. Our team works effectively and proactively to ensure obligations are met and your investments are protected.
Pre-purchase inspections
If you are considering investing into an existing scheme, it is important that you are aware of any ongoing issues that might be present.
With Countrywide Strata Management’s professional guidance, you can make an informed decision about your potential property purchase. Buying a property is one of the largest purchases you can make, but having Countywide Strata by your side through the process gives you peace of mind.
Countrywide Strata Management is here to help you ensure the property you purchase is in the condition you need. Our team of experienced professionals conduct a thorough inspection of the property, before providing you with a detailed report that outlines any issues that need addressing.
Developer Assistance
Countrywide Strata is appropriately qualified to aid you with establishing a strata scheme or provide consulting services to developers. Whether it's drafting by-laws or registering a plan, we can make it easier for you.
Countrywide Strata Management provides a range of services, from planning and design to ongoing management and maintenance, to ensure your development is built and maintained to a high standard. We work closely with developers to ensure that their projects are compliant and protected.
Our goal is to ensure that our clients' properties are well-maintained, financially sound, and compliant with all relevant regulations. We strive to foster long-term relationships with our clients by providing personalised service, timely communication, and transparent reporting.
Community Title
More and more new housing estates are set up as community, precinct or neighbourhood associations.
They typically offer a mix of strata titled apartment buildings, townhouses and shopping centres with shared promenades and parklands.
The developers of these locations typically market the lifestyles that come with buying a property in their estates. They offer bicycle tracks through parks, swimming pools and playgrounds.
Community Title Management involves the management of property within these gated estates, which typically consists of various strata title schemes and shared infrastructure, such as roads and various facilities. Another way of describing it, is that they are a subdivision of land with shared property, not dissimilar to strata title. Please note that there are some technical differences and variations from state to state.
Community Title Schemes typically maintain their own roads, parks and gardens, and garbage collection. This explains the popularity of this model with many councils. Residents still pay council levies, however only receive limited services from their council, as most are funded by themselves.
The Community Land Management Act 2021 and the Community Land Development Act 2021 are the two acts that detail how community schemes should be run.
The joined, collective ownership model is a corporation, named the ‘association’ and the communal owned property, such as roads, promenades and parklands are called ‘association property’.
In New South Wales, there are three types of associations, the previously mentioned community, precinct or neighbourhood associations.
A Community Plan is typically used when a developer wants to build a large scale development consisting of various release stages with a multi-tiered management structure. It divides the land in Association Property and lots for development. A Community Association can consist of Precincts, Neighbourhoods and Strata Schemes.
Precincts are pretty rare, mainly because they are a combination of Community Plans and Neighbourhood Plans albeit with certain restrictions.
Neighbourhood Associations is the most popular form of association and can be used in tiered, stand-alone and staged developments. It lets you subdivide lots in a Community Plan, a Precinct plan or conventional ‘strata’ lots.
Effectively, these associations all offer developers ways to gradually develop a parcel of land without restrictions without really affecting the individual lot owners.
These associations are very complex to manage, consisting of a mix of residential, commercial and retail lots, often with conflicting interests. As in strata, the schemes are managed through resolutions tabled at meetings. There is the community scheme committee for more day-to-day issues and general meetings attended by all owners for larger topics.
The by-laws of your strata titled building apply, as well as the by-laws of the community scheme. This means you might have to apply for permission of both committees to make changes.
All by-laws in a community scheme are detailed in a so-called Management Statement, which is lodged with each plan. Due to the varying nature of these scheme you don’t get the standardised by-laws as with strata schemes.