Today SCAQ launched StrataWeek 2026 with a clear message: Standards Matter. Choose a strata professional. Queensland’s strata communities are growing, and with that growth comes the need for professional support, strong standards and trusted advice. Strata managers do far more than administration. They support bodies corporate with governance, meetings, records, financial processes, compliance obligations, maintenance planning, insurance coordination, communication and disput

Article supplied by SCAQ Partners, Leisuretex We’ve all done it… You need some work done on your building, you call a few tradespeople, and frustratingly, one contractor doesn’t answer, another agrees but never follows through, and perhaps only one provides a quote...It’s hardly the ideal basis for comparison. However, with a more strategic approach, strata managers and committee members can position their projects more favourably and significantly improve the likelihood of r

How did you first come to work in strata? I actually found my way into strata almost by accident. At the time, I was eight months pregnant and working evenings to help a Strata management company on the Sunshine Coast (a family friend of my mothers) transition all of their records into Stratamax. Before that, I’d been working in our family real estate/property business as a property manager, preparing to step away on maternity leave. As I worked through the data, I became un