Posts by Cate Bakos

A special levy is a capital raising exercise that is coordinated by an Owner’s Corporation (or Strata company) when funds are required for something that wasn’t budgeted for. The levies can sometimes be demure, but more often than not they signal something more serious or sinister. Special levies can be a once-off surcharge, a series…

Last week on our podcast, The Property Planner, Buyer and Professor we each shared our greatest property mistakes. I’ve written about mine before, in fact it’s the very first chapter of my book. I asked for advice from someone I trusted and I didn’t take it. As a cautious and relatively impressionable young adult, I…