Villa & townhouse schemes
Survey-strata and built-strata villas on a shared drive: common-property lawns, the bin store, the letterbox bank, the fence nobody owns.
from $1,560 a year · $260 a lot, 6-lot minimum
Strata management · Joondalup · schemes metro-wide
Strata management for Perth's northern suburbs — the scheme runs, you don't have to.
Villas, walk-ups and mid-rise schemes managed from our Joondalup office: levies issued on time, minutes inside a week, a licensed trust account and a manager who picks up the phone.
SCA (WA) member firm Licensed trust account, audited annually Managing schemes since 2015
Changing managers?
The council of owners resolves it, we serve the notice under your current agreement and run the handover — records, trust funds and the roll — with the first council meeting booked before the old manager's last day.
The Scheme Ledger — price your scheme before you ask
Sixteen lots, one phone number
Low-rise · walk-up
Levy noticeProposal · Northline Strata, Joondalup
$5,248a year
+ $1,100 one-off
Low-rise apartments (walk-up) · 16 lots
- Management fee · 16 lots × $320AGM, levies, arrears, portal, trust accounting$5,120 a year
- Billed at the 6-lot minimum.
- After-hours emergency line · 16 lots × $8$128 a year
- 10-year maintenance plan · quantity surveyorRequired at ten lots and up (WA Strata Titles Act)$1,100 one-off
- Building insurance valuation · every 5 yearsnot included
- Extra meetings, by-law reviews, disputeshourly schedule
Total$5,248 a year+ $1,100 one-off
GST inclusive. The management fee includes the AGM, levy issuing & arrears follow-up, the owner portal, trust accounting and one council-of-owners meeting a year.
Demo estimator: rates are illustrative for the WA market. The real proposal follows a scheme walk-through and a look at the last two years' accounts.
Scheme type
Lots in the scheme
Add-ons
Extra general meetings, by-law reviews and dispute work are billed at the hourly schedule in your agreement — we show you the schedule before you sign.
Services & fees
What a well-run scheme costs.
Per lot, per year, GST inclusive. No admin surcharges, no "disbursements" line you can't decode.
Low-rise apartments
Walk-ups of two to four floors: stairwells, fire services, common laundries and the maintenance plan that stops the roof surprising you.
$320 a lot, a year
Mid-rise with lift & pool
Lift contracts, pool compliance, access systems and the building manager's brief — plus a budget that funds them.
$380 a lot, a year
10-year maintenance plans
Prepared by a quantity surveyor: what wears out, when, and what to reserve so it's paid for. Required at ten lots and up; useful at six.
$1,100 · one-off
After-hours emergency line
A person on the phone at 2am who knows your scheme's plumber, lift contractor and gate installer.
$8 a lot, a year
By-law reviews & dispute work
Extra general meetings, by-law drafting, breach notices and SAT preparation. Billed by the hour on the schedule in your agreement — shown before you sign.
Hourly schedule
- Since 2015Managing northern-suburbs schemes for over a decade
- SCA (WA) member firmStrata Community Association WA
- Licensed trust accountAudited annually, owners' funds held separately
- PI insurance $5MProfessional indemnity, certificate on request
- Owner portalLevies, minutes and the maintenance plan online
- ABN 00 000 000 338Northline Strata Management Pty Ltd
From councils of owners
What changed when the scheme was run properly.
★★★★★
"Our old manager took six weeks to send minutes, if they came at all. Northline had the AGM minutes in the portal four days later. Owners actually read them now."
★★★★★
"We handed over a 22-lot low-rise in Alkimos. Northline had the roll, the trust account and the insurance sorted, and ran the first AGM on day 30. Purchasers noticed."
★★★★★
"Arrears in our walk-up were sitting at nearly a fifth of levies. Twelve months of proper follow-up and payment plans and it's under a tenth. The budget balances again."
Where we manage
Joondalup office, northern corridor first, schemes metro-wide.
Most of our schemes sit between Hillarys and Alkimos along the Mitchell Freeway — close enough that a site visit is a twenty-minute drive, not a calendar negotiation. We also manage schemes across the metro where a council wants the same service.
- Joondalup
- Currambine
- Clarkson
- Butler
- Alkimos
- Kingsley
- Hillarys
- Wanneroo
- Ellenbrook
- Scarborough
- Perth CBD
- Metro-wide
Straight answers
Questions councils actually ask.
What does a strata manager actually do?
- Issues levies, chases arrears and keeps the trust account reconciled.
- Convenes and minutes the AGM and council meetings; keeps the roll and records.
- Arranges building insurance and lodges claims.
- Engages contractors for common-property repairs and checks the invoices.
- Keeps the scheme compliant with the Strata Titles Act — the 10-year plan, by-law registration, disclosures on sale.
How do we change managers?
The council of owners resolves to change; the notice period is whatever your current management agreement says (commonly one to three months). We serve the notice, request the records and trust funds, and book the first council meeting before the handover date so nothing sits in limbo.
Who holds the scheme's money?
The strata company does — in a licensed trust account operated by us and audited annually. Owners' funds are never mixed with our operating funds, and every council member can see the balance in the portal.
What's a 10-year maintenance plan and do we need one?
A forward plan of major common-property works — roofs, painting, lifts, pool plant — with the reserve fund contributions to pay for them. Under the WA Act it's required for schemes of ten lots or more; for smaller schemes it's optional and, honestly, still the best way to avoid special levies.
How are levies set?
By the owners. We prepare an administrative and reserve budget from the actual costs and the plan; the AGM adopts or amends it; levies follow from the budget and each lot's unit entitlement. We don't set levies — we make sure the budget is honest.
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