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Plain-English strata guidance for real buildings.
Your Strata Property With Amanda Farmer is a brisk, plain-English guide to the legal and operational realities of strata living. It suits owners and committee members trying to understand what managers, agencies, proxies, reforms, fire standards, and mixed-use schemes mean in practice.
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Your Strata Property With Amanda Farmer covers strata ownership as a practical, legal, and managerial problem that has to be solved in real buildings. The show is not casual property chat. It is closer to a working conversation between people who have seen committee confusion, manager pressure, expired agreements, fee disputes, compliance obligations, and owner frustration from the inside. Amanda Farmer often begins with a concrete problem: a manager adding a renewal motion to an agenda, a committee asking for itemised fees, an owner trying to understand proxy limits, or a building facing new fire safety requirements. Then the episode slows down just enough to separate authority from assumption. The result is useful and specific. Recent conversations look at whether strata management is broken by design, why owners can feel forced to manage their own manager, and how a one-manager boutique model with AI support might change accountability. Other episodes bring in owner and committee perspectives, including KT’s experience across two buildings and Danielle’s experience with a large mixed-use scheme. The show also keeps returning to the administrative details that make strata work or fail: agency agreements, agendas, Schedule B fees, committee nominations, mediation, owner expectations, and records that should be available when requested. It is alert to technology without treating it as magic. AI appears as both a possible fix and a current source of confusion, especially where tools produce inaccurate material or add more work before they remove it. Fire safety compliance gets the same grounded treatment, with AS1851 explained through its effect on residential apartment buildings in New South Wales. The conversations can be dense, but they rarely feel ornamental. They keep asking what a rule, clause, or process means for the people trying to run a building. The show’s best moments come when a tangled complaint becomes a cleaner operational issue. It gives owners language for meetings. It gives committee members a way to test claims. It gives managers a mirror for the expectations now sitting on their role. Above all, it treats strata as a shared governance system where paperwork, power, and trust all matter.
Made for: For strata owners, committee members, strata managers, and apartment residents who need practical clarity on governance, compliance, fees, meetings, and disputes.
What sets it apart: The show combines a strata lawyer’s procedural eye with lived examples from managers, owners, and committee members. It turns narrow rules and messy building politics into usable next steps.
The ultimate source of actionable tips for strata property owners with Amanda Farmer
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Amanda Farmer makes the financial and procedural machinery of strata buildings easier to inspect, question and manage.
Amanda Farmer treats strata property as a working financial system, following costs and obligations from the committee room into management contracts, insurance decisions and employment practice.
A proxy form is not a committee nomination, and Amanda Farmer will make sure you know why.
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A clear, practical episode on mediation pressure and the records behind extra strata management fees.
Strata conflict comes through as a practical pressure point, with Rina Van Elst relaying a mediator's account of rising mediation demand and limited resources.
A grounded live-chat review of AI limits, fee transparency, and strata expectations into 2026.
Amanda Farmer's five-surprise tour of strata in 2025 considers what the year may be telling the sector about its next turn. Drawing on client work, live chats, disputes in real buildings, and audience comments, the episode checks whether those surprises truly landed as…
A clear, practical guide to proxy limits and committee nomination rules.
This episode keeps proxy questions tied to the practical business of committee nominations, paperwork, and consent. Amanda Farmer's conversation with Rina Van Elst is clearest when it separates voting by proxy from being nominated to a committee.
A practical look at strata risk profiling, insurance readiness and valuation gaps that can leave buildings under-insured.
The episode frames pre-loss risk profiling as a practical step before strata insurance is arranged. Amanda Farmer and Edwina Phelan explain how clearer information about a building can help insurers understand the risk they are being asked to cover.
A practical strata energy discussion on tendering common-area contracts and finding potential savings.
Amanda Farmer's conversation with Sally Pollard, General Manager and Board Director of Strata Energy Services, turns strata energy costs into a clear procurement issue.
A practical discussion about drawing the line between a 9pm emergency and a 9am conversation.
Strata managers face a familiar workplace tension under new legal pressure: what needs attention after hours, and what can reasonably wait. The episode gives that question a useful, practical shape through Nick Hedges, founder and director of Resolve HR and a human resources and…
Short-term rental lessons from the operator side.
Strata lawyer Amanda Farmer interviews Tom Richards about his new platform Cohabit, which aims to improve visibility and efficiency in strata management by providing a building health score.
Strata lawyer Amanda Farmer discusses new NSW legislation increasing disclosure obligations for strata managers and aligning pet rules for community schemes.
Strata lawyer Amanda Farmer interviews Sally Pollard, General Manager of Strata Energy Services, about reducing strata energy costs.
Strata lawyer Amanda Farmer interviews HR expert Nick Hedges about new right-to-disconnect laws affecting strata managers.
Strata lawyer Amanda Farmer interviews Tim Sarra, founder of Sarra Strata, about his critique of the broken strata management model and his new boutique practice built on accountability and AI.
Strata lawyer Amanda Farmer interviews Kareem Tawansi about his experiences as a strata committee member and the power of influence over authority.
A strata lawyer and manager discuss a case where a strata manager added their own renewal motion to an AGM agenda without committee consent, despite their expired agency agreement.
Amanda Farmer introduces a new interview format with guest Danielle, who shares her experience living in a mixed-use strata scheme in New South Wales.
Strata lawyer Amanda Farmer interviews Dominic Dodwell about the mandated compliance with AS 1851 for fire protection systems in New South Wales residential apartment buildings.
Strata pressure is already showing in early 2026.
Five surprises frame Amanda's 2025 strata review.
Amanda Farmer and Rina Van Elst tackle a hoarding complaint under section 153 of the New South Wales legislation, after a tenant's unit is linked to cockroaches and a building-wide nuisance.
"Data is king" for strata insurance because up-to-date risk information helps brokers get better outcomes.
Strata lawyer Amanda Farmer interviews Tom Richards about his new platform Cohabit, which aims to improve visibility and efficiency in strata management by providing a building health score.
Fire safety engineer Ben Hughes-Brown discusses strategies to avoid the expense of removing combustible cladding from apartment buildings.
Amanda Farmer interviews Lisa Macqueen about the importance of cleanliness in strata buildings beyond aesthetics.