Plain English, always.
Legislation, levies and lot entitlements should not read like a riddle. We translate the Owners Corporations Act into language your committee can understand and act on.
About the practice · Bendigo, Victoria
Steady hands for your owners corporation.
Bendigo Body Corporate Services is a locally owned strata management practice built for committees who want clear advice, tidy accounts and a manager who actually replies — not a call centre in another city.
Our story
Built in Bendigo, for Bendigo committees.
Bendigo Body Corporate Services was founded on a straightforward observation: too many owners corporations across Central Victoria were being managed from a distance. Decisions took weeks, invoices arrived unexplained, and committee volunteers spent their evenings chasing a head office in another city.
We set out to build the opposite — a locally owned practice where the person who manages your building is the person you actually deal with. From six-unit walk-ups in Kennington to mixed-use precincts near the city centre, we have grown almost entirely on word of mouth from committees who were tired of being a file number.
That local footing shapes everything we do. We know Central Victoria’s building styles, its council processes and its trades, and we answer to our neighbours — not to an interstate parent company.
What we stand for
Four principles, applied every day.
Local to the core.
Our managers live and work in the region they serve. When a storm damages common property or a contractor fails to front, we are nearby and accountable.
Financial discipline.
Budgets built line by line, levies struck with care, and trust accounts reconciled properly. Your committee will always know where the money sits and why.
The committee leads.
We advise; the committee decides. Our role is to arm volunteer owners with clear options and honest costs — then get on with the work.
“If a committee has to chase us for an answer, we haven’t done our job.”
The standard every Bendigo Body Corporate Services manager works to.
Our team approach
One manager. Genuinely yours.
No call centres, no rotating juniors. Every owners corporation we manage is assigned a dedicated senior manager who knows your by-laws, your budget history and your committee’s priorities — and who answers your emails directly.
- A named manager who handles your scheme’s AGM, committee meetings and day-to-day administration
- Emails acknowledged within one business day, with a real person on the reply
- AGM notices, minutes and financials prepared ahead of time — not the night before
- Contractor quotes sourced from trusted Central Victoria trades and checked line by line
- Quarterly financial statements your committee can actually read
- Maintenance plans and fund forecasts kept current, so long-term costs never sneak up on owners
Credentials & compliance
Properly set up, properly insured, properly run.
- Registered Australian proprietary company — ABN 86 703 987 875
- Management practices aligned with the Owners Corporations Act 2006 (Vic) and associated regulations
- Professional indemnity insurance maintained for the protection of the schemes we serve
- Careful, transparent handling of owners corporation trust funds
- Ongoing professional development so our advice keeps pace with legislative change
- Established working relationships with reputable local contractors and consultants
Reference material — including sample financial statements, meeting agendas and our management agreement — is available to committees on request.
Bendigo
Owned and operated — decisions about your building are made here, not interstate.
1 : 1
One dedicated senior manager for every owners corporation we serve.
1 day
Our target for acknowledging your committee’s emails with a genuine reply.
Ready for a manager who answers?
Tell us about your owners corporation and we will come back with a clear, fixed-fee proposal — usually within two business days.