Changes to NSW strata and community land laws

Written on the 13 September 2024

Strata has quickly become a large and complex part of the housing mix in our state. Updated laws that aim to make strata and community living fairer and more transparent are now in place.

Changes to NSW strata and community land laws* started on 11 December 2023. The changes:

• make it easier and fairer to keep pets
• affect managing agent contract notice periods
• improve scheme meetings
• increase accountability for scheme finances
• ensure strata records have information about tenants
• improve information to tenants about a scheme
• affect two-lot scheme arrangements
• bring more transparency to the strata renewal process.

The changes implement 31 recommendations from the 2021 Report on the Statutory Review of the Strata Schemes Development Act 2015 and Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 and align community land laws with strata laws. The Report’s recommendations were informed by public consultation on the strata laws.

To learn more about these: 

• visit the NSW Government's Changes to strata scheme laws webpage 
• visit the NSW Fair Trading Changes to community land laws webpage 
• contact NSW Fair Trading on 13 32 20.

Further changes will be progressed in 2024.

*Strata Schemes Management Act 2015, Strata Schemes Development Act 2015, Community Land Management Act 2021 and Community Land Development Act 2021.

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