Help and information
The government's own plain-English guidance for your scheme.
- SA Government: Strata titlesOfficial overview of strata corporations, rules, titles and where to go with problems.
- SA Government: Community titlesThe same overview for community title schemes.
- Law Handbook: Strata titlesFree plain-language legal guide to committees, meetings, voting and disputes.
Disputes
Where to go when something can't be sorted out at the committee table.
- Law Handbook: Strata disputesIn SA, strata disputes go to the Magistrates Court as minor civil actions, not a tribunal.
- Courts SA: Starting a civil caseHow to lodge a minor civil claim: forms, fees and process.
The law itself
The Acts, straight from the official legislation website.
- Strata Titles Act 1988The Act for strata corporations.
- Community Titles Act 1996The Act for community corporations.
Plans, titles and scheme documents
Where to search or order the scheme plan, title and registered by-laws.
- Land Services SA: SAILIS supportHow to search titles and order strata and community plan images.
- Guide to strata and community titlesFact sheet comparing strata and community corporations, meetings and disputes.
Builders, trades and defects
Check a licence before you hire, and where to take defective work.
- CBS: Find a licence holderCheck builders, plumbers, electricians and land agents are licensed.
Also worth bookmarking
Other official pages committee members end up needing.
- Law Handbook: Community corporationsOfficer roles, funds, levies, record keeping and owners' rights to inspect.
Official forms
Where your state has an official or prescribed form, use it. For everything else, use our free forms.
- Land Services SA forms and guidance notesForms for changing articles, by-laws and scheme descriptions.
- Amending articles (Form B2 guide)How to lodge articles changed by special resolution.
- SA statutory declarationThe statutory declaration form for body corporate matters in South Australia.
Strata managers in South Australia
Thinking about changing managers? Start with these. Changing manager is usually a decision for a general meeting, and your current agreement sets out the notice period, so check both before you sign anything new.
Finders and registers
- SCA SA: member strata managersThe industry body's list of SA member strata managers, with a free quote request.
- SCA Strata DirectoryThe Strata Community Association's national directory of member strata managers and suppliers.
Strata management companies, A to Z
| Company | Areas they list |
|---|---|
| Ace Body Corporate Management | Adelaide |
| Adelaide Strata & Community Management | Adelaide |
| Fewster Properties | Adelaide |
| JE White's | South Australia |
| Strata Data | Adelaide and regional SA |
| Strata Management SA | Adelaide and regional SA |
| Stratarama | Glenelg, Christies Beach |
| Whittles | Adelaide (head office) |
Listed alphabetically. No company paid to be listed and none is recommended over another. Get at least three quotes and ask each one what is included in the base fee.
Local reading
Owner groups, the industry body and law firms that publish free plain-English articles for South Australia.
- SCA SA and NT chapterThe industry chapter for SA and NT, with owner FAQs.
- Lynch Meyer: strata and community corporationsSA articles on resolutions, unfinancial owners and good practice.
For news, forums and podcasts from across Australia, see what owners are talking about.
Want it all explained in one place?
The South Australia edition of The Committee Member Handbook walks through the job in plain English, written for SA's own law.