Strata reports must be better, says AIC boss
AIC NSW president Jennie Tonner has urged the state’s consumer protection agency to boost safeguards for apartment buyers by standardising strata reports. With no qualifications needed to become strata inspector in NSW, there are industry concerns about the quality of strata reports relied on by consumers, with calls by some practitioners to mandate standard minimum requirements. Speaking at the AIC NSW state conference, Tonner, an industry veteran, said there was merit in a state-wide “systemisation” of strata reports. “(It) would be great to know that if we’re reading a repor