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Ernst Body Corporate Management (Ernst) provides clients in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast with a full range of services as part of the administration of your property.

Ernst is a company that is passionate about people and property. With over 30 years trusted experience providing professional service that is tailored to suit your needs, we make strata simple for you. Ernst reflects the highest professional integrity in all our actions through greater transparency, responsiveness and honesty.

Strata management is the management of a block of buildings, which is either done by the property owner or by an outside service provider.

A prestige apartment building in Sydney built by a well-known developer is undergoing a second replacement of a terrace waterproof membrane five years after replacement of the first one, which had leaked from completion.

We are entering a new world where skyscrapers and other huge buildings are becoming redundant and need significant overhaul or replacement. The process is called unbuilding or, if you’re a bit highfalutin, deconstruction.

An Australian Apartment Advocacy survey with 1,050 apartment owners nationally has indicated that the presence of defects affects owner confidence levels with both referring apartments as well as purchasing again.

There’s nothing more frustrating for homeowners and tenants than when being passed from pillar to post when seeking a response to a query. To help ensure your query is directed to the right staff member, we outline the different roles of the strata manager and the property manager.

The functions and powers granted to an Owners Corporation are clearly defined in the Owners Corporation Act. But did you know an Owners Corporation can also undertake other functions, called “a service”, to its members and occupiers?

On the last day of summer for 2019, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) delivered a burst of sunshine to apartment owners at the high-rise Lacrosse building in the Melbourne Docklands precinct.

Body corporate is a collective of owners of individual units within a specific area. The area can be a large piece of land, a real estate development, or even an apartment building; as long as a physical structure is involved.

The strata have become staple living tools among many residential communities. City dwellers and those living in the suburbs as well have come to rely on strata to create living environments that cater to wide varieties of communities that contain equally large types of people, backgrounds and even temperaments.

A prestige apartment building in Sydney built by a well-known developer is undergoing a second replacement of a terrace waterproof membrane five years after replacement of the first one, which had leaked from completion.