Tenants should be allowed to attend owners' corporation meetings to give renters a much greater say in how their strata buildings are managed and maintained, tenants' groups and strata experts have said.

As anyone who has moved from a house to an apartment will tell you, there's a huge difference between living in your own free-standing Emoh Ruo and sharing a building as part of an attached community. 

The main problem with collective living is governance. Buildings need to be managed, and the management is provided by a group of owners elected by annual meetings of the body corporate (a flash name for all the owners).

NSW Fair Trading has issued a safety alert following a Coroner’s report into the death of a young security guard who died from carbon monoxide poisoning from an enclosed gas pool heater in a strata unit block.

Clover Moore MP has reintroduced the first of a series of bills for strata reform to the NSW Parliament.