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Do you know your strata plan number?
It starts with SP and is on your rates notice or insurance certificate. You need it for insurance, records and any sale.
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Is your building insurance in the name of the owners corporation?
The policy should say “The Owners – Strata Plan No. …”, not just your names.
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Is the sum insured based on a professional valuation from the last 5 years?
The law requires cover for the full cost to rebuild. A recent valuation is how you show the figure is right.
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Do you have a copy of the registered strata plan and your by-laws?
These set out who owns what and the rules for the property.
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Is there an up-to-date strata roll with both owners' details?
The strata roll is the legal list of owners and their addresses for notices.
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Have you both agreed, in writing, how shared costs are split?
Insurance and repairs to shared parts are split between the two lots. Writing it down avoids arguments later.
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If one of you sold tomorrow, could you produce the records for a Section 184 certificate?
The buyer's conveyancer will ask for one within 14 days. Missing records hold up the sale.
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How we take care of it
Duplex Strata looks after all 7 of these for you, for $395 + GST a year for the whole block, not per home.
- No meetings. Decisions are signed online by both owners.
- No insurance commissions, and we never hold your money.
- No lock-in. Paid one year at a time.
- A Class 1 licensed strata manager behind every document.
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General information only, not legal advice. Start again
- From 1 October 2026 (now in force): 2-lot schemes no longer lodge the annual Strata Hub report (NSW Fair Trading, "Changes to strata laws").
- Small strata scheme rules (no meetings, decisions by written resolution of both owners, new s 7A): in a Bill that has passed the Legislative Assembly and is before the Legislative Council. They start on a date to be proclaimed. Until then, where the law still requires a meeting, we give you a simple template pack so you can hold it yourselves in a few minutes.
- Unchanged: the duty to insure the building for full replacement value in the owners corporation's name, to keep common property in repair, to keep a strata roll and records, and to provide a Section 184 certificate when a lot is sold.