Strata management in Greenacre
Greenacre is not an apartment suburb. It is duplexes, villas and townhouse blocks, which means most schemes here are small: two, four, maybe six lots, often with no on-site anything and a committee of neighbours.
- Minutes from our Bankstown office
- NSW licence 10029095
- Managing strata since 2012
- 1,000+ lots under management
The numbers make the point
At the 2021 Census, Greenacre had 7,121 occupied private dwellings:
- 63.1%Separate houses
- 29.3%Semi-detached or townhouses
- 7.0%Flats or apartments
Only seven per cent of Greenacre lives in flats. But nearly thirty per cent lives in semi-detached, townhouse or villa dwellings, and a large share of that is strata titled. So Greenacre has plenty of owners corporations. They are just small ones, and small schemes have their own problems that nobody writes brochures about.
What actually goes wrong in a small scheme
The driveway
Shared driveways and crossovers are the single most common dispute in a two-to-six lot scheme. Who parks where, who pays when it cracks, and whether a visitor blocking a garage is a by-law matter or just a neighbour problem.
Nobody wants to be treasurer
In a four-lot scheme the same person has usually done it for a decade, unpaid, and is quietly resentful. When they sell, the records leave with them.
The fund is too small
Small schemes routinely set levies at whatever feels tolerable rather than what the roof will cost. Then the roof needs doing and it is a special levy split four ways.
It only takes one
With four lots, one owner in arrears is a quarter of your income. Recovery rules changed recently and there are limits on what an owners corporation can do and when.
Small does not mean the law is optional
A two-lot scheme carries most of the same obligations as a two-hundred-lot one. An owners corporation still has to insure the building, still has to hold an annual general meeting, still has to keep a strata roll and financial records, and still has to prepare and review a 10-year capital works fund plan. The Act does not scale its duties to the size of the building.
What does scale is the cost of getting it wrong. In a large scheme an error is absorbed across hundreds of owners. In a four-lot scheme it lands on four households, and usually on the one who volunteered.
Plenty of Greenacre schemes self-manage and do it perfectly well. The ones that come to us are usually at a specific moment: a major repair they cannot agree on, a sale where the buyer's solicitor has asked for records nobody has, or a treasurer who has finally had enough.
Source: Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW), sections 80, 160 and 178.
How we price small schemes
A four-lot scheme should not be paying a structure designed for a tower, and it should not be quietly neglected either. Tell us the number of lots and what the building is, and the free quote comes back in writing with our fee and the disbursements that sit alongside it. If self-managing is genuinely working for you, we will say so.
Who you are dealing with
Metro Strata Management is a licensed NSW strata managing agent at Unit 6/46 Restwell St, Bankstown NSW 2200, a few minutes from Greenacre. We have managed strata schemes since 2012 and look after more than 1,000 lots across Sydney. Zafar Ahamed is our Principal and Licensee, and we hold strata managing agent licence 10029095. We are a member of Strata Community Association NSW.
Owners rated us 4.3 stars across 79 Google reviews, and 96% of our clients stayed with us in 2025. Our ABN is 27 167 558 134.
Call 1300 609 605, Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm, or email admin@metro-strata.com.
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