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One million homes in NSW are under strata title, covering about 17 per cent of the population, and this number will grow as more apartments are built to tackle the housing crisis.
But at Sylvan Street, many of the owners say they would never buy strata again.
“It’s fine living in a strata property when everything is going well”, owner Susan Magnay said.
“But if you have something drastic happen, like the property being destroyed by fire or those apartments in Sydney that are uninhabitable, you don’t actually have control over your own property – you’re at the mercy of the owners’ corporation”.
Magnay, 71, and her husband Philip Bull, 82, lived full time in their unit before the fire, but are now paying $600 a week to rent in nearby Batemans Bay. They have been forced to move three times in four years.
Owner Dallas Smith said: “[With strata] you leave your destiny in way too many people’s hands. You’re trapped, and if being trapped makes you bankrupt, that’s too bad.”
The Herald spoke to the owners of nine out of the 13 units, including holiday home owners, sea-change retirees, and a pensioner whose home was her only asset.
The owners are yet to lodge plans with council. Instead, they are waiting to be contacted by a new compulsory strata manager after the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal refused to reappoint the previous one in December in a scathing decision.
Owner Phillip Cobden said a rebuild was the only option because it would be impossible to get unanimous agreement to sell the entire site to a developer, and no one had the appetite for court.
“We’re in a bear trap … Every time we take a step, we’re dragging it along”.
Philip Cobden, strata homeowner
Trying to force a collective sale is notoriously difficult. Last month, the NSW Supreme Court refused an application by the majority of residents of the defect-riddled Mascot Towers in Sydney to wind up their strata scheme.
Yet, Cobden and others said the initial insurance payment of $10 million was not enough after four years of inflation, and the prospect of a further payout was unclear.
“We’re in a bear trap,” Cobden said. “We can feel it around our legs and every time we take a step, we’re dragging it along with us.”
新南威尔士州有 100 万套房屋属于分契式产权，覆盖了约 17% 的人口，而且随着更多公寓的建设来解决住房危机，这一数字还将继续增长。
但在 Sylvan Street，许多业主表示他们再也不会购买分层公寓了。
业主苏珊·麦格奈 (Susan Magnay) 表示：“当一切进展顺利时，住在分契式房产中就很好了。”
“但如果你发生了一些剧烈的事情，比如房产被大火烧毁，或者悉尼的那些公寓无法居住，你实际上无法控制自己的房产——你会受到业主立案法团的摆布”。
71 岁的马格奈 (Magnay) 和她 82 岁的丈夫菲利普·布尔 (Philip Bull) 在火灾发生前一直住在他们的公寓里，但现在每周支付 600 美元在附近的巴特曼斯湾 (Batemans Bay) 租房。 四年内他们被迫搬家三次。
业主达拉斯·史密斯 (Dallas Smith) 表示：“[使用分契物业]，你将自己的命运交到了太多人的手中。 你被困住了，如果被困住会让你破产，那就太糟糕了。”
《先驱报》采访了这 13 个单位中的 9 个单位的业主，其中包括度假屋业主、彻底改变的退休人员，以及一名房屋是她唯一资产的养老金领取者。
业主尚未向议会提交计划。 相反，在新南威尔士州民事和行政法庭去年 12 月作出严厉决定拒绝重新任命前一位强制分契经理后，他们正在等待新的强制分契经理与他们联系。
业主菲利普·科布登(Phillip Cobden)表示，重建是唯一的选择，因为不可能达成一致同意将整个场地出售给开发商，而且没有人愿意诉诸法庭。
“我们陷入了熊陷阱……每次我们迈出一步，我们都会拖着它前行”。
试图强制集体出售是出了名的困难。 上个月，新南威尔士州最高法院驳回了悉尼问题重重的吉祥物塔 (Mascot Towers) 的大多数居民提出的终止分层计划的申请。
然而，科布登等人表示，在四年的通货膨胀之后，最初的 1000 万美元保险付款还不够，进一步付款的前景也不清楚。
“我们陷入了熊陷阱，”科布登说。 “我们可以感觉到它在我们的腿上，每次我们迈出一步，它就会跟着我们一起拖着走。” |
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