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Base fees run $200 to $450 a lot a year, with minimum fees of $3,000 to $5,000 for a small building. Disbursements, commissions and extra meetings add about 20% to 50% on top. Quarter self-managed is $12 a lot a month for the first 50 lots, $8 for the next 50 and $5 after that, with the first 30 days free.
In Victoria, commission and disbursements alone average $147 a lot a year. That is more than Quarter's whole price, per lot, at any size.
| The line | Typically | Where it hides | With Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insurance commission | Typically: About 20% of the base premium. Victoria's average is $91 a lot a year. | Where it hides: Inside the premium. At best, a line in the disclosures at the AGM. | With Quarter: No commission, on anything. |
| Disbursements | Typically: Victoria averages $56 a lot a year. In Queensland they add 60 to 80% to the base fee. | Where it hides: Printing, postage, photocopying and "administration". | With Quarter: Notices, agendas and minutes go out digitally. There is nothing to post. |
| Software and portal fees | Typically: $2 to $8 a lot a month, recovered from the building. | Where it hides: "Management software", "owner portal", "technology fee". | With Quarter: Replaced outright. Community is free, with a login for every owner. |
| Extra meetings | Typically: $150 to $400 a meeting, and 25 to 100% more after hours. | Where it hides: The fee schedule. Schedule B, in New South Wales. | With Quarter: Hosted and minuted inside the plan, however many you hold. |
| Certificates on a sale | Typically: About $120 in New South Wales, $150 to $200 in Victoria, $86.95 in Queensland. | Where it hides: Charged to the selling owner, so the committee never sees it. | With Quarter: Western Australia's certificate is produced from Quarter's records, and New South Wales's information is assembled for its approved form. Other states not yet. |
| Arrears notices | Typically: $60 to $120 a notice. | Where it hides: Recovered from the owner who is behind. | With Quarter: Levy reminders go out automatically, as part of Finance. |
| Insurance claims | Typically: $100 to $250 a claim. | Where it hides: The fee schedule. | With Quarter: Tracked on the compliance dashboard, nothing per claim. |
| Professional time | Typically: $180 to $350 an hour. | Where it hides: The fee schedule. | With Quarter: Not something software replaces. When you need a person, we quote it up front. |
Sources, all 2026: the Macquarie Strata Industry Benchmarking Report as quoted by Inner OC, Compare Strata Managers, StrataClear, Tracsafe, two management firms' own fee guides, and the Queensland and New South Wales governments. Typical figures, not quotes. Your own agreement and your last year's accounts are the real numbers.
A year of running the building, three ways, at three sizes.
| A year | 6 lots | 25 lots | 75 lots |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strata manager, base fee | $3,000 to $5,000 | $5,000 to $11,250 | $15,000 to $26,250 |
| Strata manager, all in | $3,600 to $7,500 | $6,000 to $16,880 | $18,000 to $39,380 |
| Quarter self-managed | $864 $72 a month | $3,600 $300 a month | $9,600 $800 a month |
"All in" adds the disbursements, commissions and extra-meeting charges that usually come on top of the base fee, 20% to 50% of it. 2026 market ranges. Quarter self-managed is $12 a lot a month for the first 50 lots and less after that, with the first 30 days free.
How many lots, and where. If you know the management fee on your budget, put it in and we'll use yours, then add what a normal year puts on top of it.
25 lots, New South Wales
Quarter, self-managed
$3,600 a year ($300 a month)
25 lots at $12 a month, with Community included. No commission, no disbursements, nothing per meeting.
You keep $2,400 to $13,280 a year.
That is 40 to 78% less than paying a strata manager, every year the building runs itself.
The management fee is the range published for New South Wales in 2026, with the minimum a strata manager charges a small scheme and the lower rate they quote a big one. Extras are 20 to 50% of the fee in a normal year. A bad year costs more.
Base fees run $200 to $450 a lot a year, with minimum fees of $3,000 to $5,000 for a small building. Disbursements, commissions and extra meetings add about 20% to 50% on top. Quarter self-managed is $12 a lot a month for the first 50 lots, $8 for the next 50 and $5 after that, with the first 30 days free.
Insurance commission of about 20% of the base premium, disbursements, software recovered from the building at $2 to $8 a lot a month, extra meetings at $150 to $400 each, certificates on a sale and arrears notices at $60 to $120 each. Together they typically add 20% to 50% to the base fee.
No. The Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 lets an owners corporation run itself at any size, through its strata committee. A large scheme, with more than 100 lots, keeps more paperwork, including an annual audit, but is still not required to appoint a strata managing agent.
Also: Victoria , Queensland
How to self-manage in New South WalesReview your management fees
The calculator is an estimate. The review is the real figure: every dollar your strata manager was paid last year, beside what Quarter would cost the same building, and the service you got for it.
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Press “Review our management fees” on its page. Quarter already knows its size and its state, so the estimate is there before you type anything.
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Once you've joined: the last statements or budget, the management agreement and the insurance renewal invoice. Quarter reads them and adds up the fee, the extra work, the disbursements and any commission on the insurance.
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A poll with the real figures on it, to send round. It binds nobody. When the numbers make the case, the motion to run the building yourselves comes next, and Quarter drafts that too.