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🚨 NSW Announces Housing Delivery Authority 🚨 Strata Sense welcomes today’s announcement by NSW Premier Chris Minns and Planning Minister Paul Scully, unveiling the new Housing Delivery Authority. This independent body will fast-track major development projects, assessing those over $60M in Greater Sydney and $30M in Regional NSW. It will also streamline spot rezonings and planning approvals, with Minister Scully personally overseeing key decisions. Set to begin in early 2025, the Authority aims to address the current planning system’s inefficiencies, speed up project timelines, and support housing affordability. This reform shifts the focus away from local council control, offering a fresh approach to solving NSW’s housing crisis. 👏 Congratulations to Premier Chris Minns and Paul Scully for driving this essential reform. #NSWReform #PlanningPolicy #HousingDelivery

🌟 We're proud to support the vital work of the Women's Housing Company! 🌟 They recently shared a post acknowledging our organisation for providing meeting space, and we couldn’t be happier to help. The issue of homelessness among older women is pressing, driven by factors like family breakdown, poverty, mental health challenges, and domestic violence. We can contribute to meaningful change in our community. Check out their organisation to learn more about their incredible initiatives! 👇 #WomensHousingCompany #EndHomelessness

👏 Kudos to our team for their exceptional meeting preparation and execution! Your dedication to ensuring every detail was meticulously planned and professional. It was also great to meet a fantastic group of owners. 🙌 A special thank you to the incredible owners and HYZ for their collaborative spirit and the opportunity to manage your building.

Welcome to the portfolio to Anden in Coogee! This fifteen lot scheme was completed in early 2023 and recently joined our portfolio seeking a trusted partner to guide them through the inevitable challenges facing a new building. Those challenges (defects, getting everyone moved in, setting the budgets/levies appropriately) can be daunting but it's critical to get those right, and we are excited by the opportunity to work with the owners in Anden with their interests at heart to set up a bright future for the development.

Compliance, done differently! At Strata Sense, we eschew the typical industry model of having a strata manager/assistant team that do everything for their clients. Instead, we have various teams that provide specialised services across the portfolio. Our compliance team handles all insurance renewals, AFSS lodgments, pool certification, lift compliance, and more across our buildings. Qing Liu and Miriam Pang make up that fabulous team. Qing has been with us now for near on seven years now and Miriam will join the five year club in September. They are great at managing all stakeholders in the process, be they building managers, fire safety contractors, or insurance brokers, all while keeping the client up to speed. Thanks for all your hard work, Qing and Miriam!

🏊♂️🚴♀️🏃♂️ Our Team, United in Motion! 🏃♀️🚴♂️🏊♀️ Recently, our team embarked on an exhilarating journey of camaraderie and perseverance as we took on the challenge of a corporate triathlon! 🏆 It was a true testament to the power of teamwork and dedication. This experience wasn't just about physical endurance; it was a profound reminder of the strength of our teamwork and the bonds that unite us. 💼👟 It's moments like these that define us as a team, bringing us closer together and fuelling our passion for success. Here's to many more adventures, challenges, and triumphs as a team! 🎉 #Teamwork #CorporateTriathlon #TogetherWeAchieve #TeamSpirit 🏊♂️🚴♀️🏃♂️

Celebrating this huge meeting last night. Everything that John says here bears repeating but just to also celebrate a couple of other points that are important to us strata folk: 1. The team managed to sign in 355 lots (only about twenty short of our all time record) in under 15min; 2. We managed to get through all twenty-three agenda items, including some difficult and contentious ones, in just over two hours. We only had four people leave during the meeting; 3. The owners and our team managed to calmly and respectfully talk through a very necessary but painful 22% increase in quarterly levies and nearly a million dollar special levy to start getting a proper savings account going for the building; 4. In contrast to previous meetings, we were able to have enough confidence from the owners to avoid unnecessary poll votes. We would give credit to those who disagreed on the contentious items that they did not put the owners to the pain of pausing the meeting repeatedly to administer poll votes. It's a small win but shows the power of working respectfully with everyone, even if you can't get agreement on everything. Congratulations to the whole team (six present at the meeting plus all the work on systems improvements to get better at these meetings over the years). And although we don't think that many owners hang out on LinkedIn, a really sincere thanks to the owners who worked so hard to communicate accurate and important information to their co-owners in the lead up to the meeting so that the right decisions were made. It should not be that owners need to spend huge numbers of hours door knocking and politicking to ensure that the building runs as the law requires, but unfortunately that is where we are at with some buildings at the moment and some owners really stepped up for this meeting.

We’re Hiring! For those that don’t know us, you can check out our website www.stratasense.com.au, and you’ll see we: - run a transparent and ethical business model, including rebating commissions in full to our clients and not taking kick-backs in any form - offer great employment packages, including additional leave such as cultural leave, loyalty leave, and flexi leave - have great avenues for growth in all of our departments You can see the roles we have available right now at https://lnkd.in/gWn8ED3n. Even if you don’t see a role there that’s the right fit for you, we encourage you to get in touch as we’re always looking for fantastic people to join the team. You can reach out for a discreet conversation by emailing [email protected].

A timely re-post of this article from Choice around the issue around the handling of insurances within the strata management sector....

Today, as we acknowledge the remarkable achievements of women across all levels of Strata Sense. We highly value and appreciate the strength, intelligence, kindness, and resourcefulness that our incredible female team members bring to our company, who help Strata Sense thrive.