HISTORY

Harvie Strata Management Pty Ltd (HSM) was established in 1974 to provide an exclusive professional strata management service for medium to large residential strata schemes located in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. We are licenced by the NSW State Government under the provisions of the Property Stock and Business Agents Act 2002 and our Corporate Licence number is 119475.

Since 1974 HSM has expanded its operations in order to meet the needs of a growing market and now exclusively manages residential and commercial strata schemes in the CBD, Eastern Suburbs, Inner City and Lower North Shore.

In order to provide our client strata schemes with a more immediate and personal service we restrict our management activities to the Eastern Suburbs, CBD and nearby areas located within a relatively close distance from our stylish architect designed offices and meeting rooms, conveniently located in Surry Hills near Central Railway Station.

All our strata managers hold either strata managing agent’s licenses or certificates of registration issued by the NSW State Government under the Property Stock and Business Agents Act 2002, and our principal has held an agent’s licence for over thirty years. We ensure our strata managers are able to offer a superior level of personalised service by allocating each manager a significantly smaller portfolio of buildings (maximum of 50 buildings) than the accepted industry average (up to and in excess of 100 buildings).

HSM is committed to regular office technology upgrades and all of our systems are of the highest quality and specification in order to maximise efficiency on behalf of our clients. We were among the first strata managing agents to offer telephone direct debit levy payments and we are again leading the way by providing internet levy payment facilities for our busy lot owners. Email communications have long been provided and welcomed by many of our clients. Traditional forms of communication are still used by many of our clients.

In order to keep up with rapidly evolving legislative changes all HSM managers attend regular Continuing Professional Development seminars dealing with The Home Building Act, The Building Code of Australia, The General Insurance Code of Practice, Office Bearers Liability issues, Occupational Health and Safety legislation, Fire Safety legislation, The Privacy Act, The Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 and The Property Stock and Business Agents Act 2002.

Weekly internal staff training sessions are held to deal with the many and varied matters which impact upon day-to-day strata management. Our focus is on minimising our own and our clients’ exposure to any unnecessary risk or liability. Proactive risk management is the foundation of all our professional management activities.

We are active members of the National Community Titles Institute, The Institute of Strata Title Management and The Real Estate Institute of NSW.

To ensure our managers and their support staff provide, in an efficient and sincere manner, superior quality professional strata management services to discerning clients and their real estate agents.