Owners Corporation Law governs owners corporations (formerly body corporates), which manage the common property of a residential, commercial, retail, industrial or mixed-use property development.

Common property is whatever it is stated to be on the plan of subdivision and may include gardens, passages, walls, stairwells, pathways, driveways, lifts, foyers and fences.

The Owners Corporation Act 2006 empowers VCAT to hears disputes:

• between neighbours affected by the same owners corporation, service company or company title corporation, about behaviour, for example, noise, car parking, rubbish, use of common property, etc
• about owners corporation fees and levies
• about repairs and maintenance
• about how meetings are conducted (process, decisions, record keeping, committees, delegations etc)
• between the owners corporation and its manager (manager’s fees and performance, clauses in the management contract).

My services:

• Directions hearing
• Mediations
• Compulsory conference
• Final hearings and appeals