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Base fees run $300 to $500 a lot a year, with minimum fees of $1,800 to $3,500 for a small building. Disbursements, commissions and extra meetings add about 20% to 50% on top. Run on Quarter is $15 a lot a month for the first 50 lots, $11 for the next 50 and $8 after that, with the first 30 days free.
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| The line | Traditional manager | Quarter |
|---|---|---|
| Management fee | Traditional Base fee What the strata manager quotes. | Quarter Base fee $15 a lot a month, less as you grow. |
| Insurance commission Inside the premium. At best, a line in the disclosures at the AGM. | Traditional Extra About 20% of the base premium. Victoria's average is $91 a lot a year. | Quarter None No commission, on anything. |
| Disbursements Printing, postage, photocopying and "administration". | Traditional Extra Victoria averages $56 a lot a year. In Queensland they add 60 to 80% to the base fee. | Quarter Included Notices, agendas and minutes go out by email, and by post to any owner who prefers it, at no extra charge. |
| Software and portal fees "Management software", "owner portal", "technology fee". | Traditional Extra $2 to $8 a lot a month, recovered from the building. | Quarter Included Replaced outright. Every owner gets a login, in the price. |
| Extra meetings The fee schedule. Schedule B, in New South Wales. | Traditional Extra $150 to $400 a meeting, and 25 to 100% more after hours. | Quarter Included Hosted and minuted inside the plan, however many you hold. |
| Certificates on a sale Charged to the selling owner, so the committee never sees it. | Traditional Extra About $120 in New South Wales, $150 to $200 in Victoria, $86.95 in Queensland. | Quarter Included in four states Victoria's and Western Australia's certificates are produced from Quarter's records, and New South Wales's and Queensland's information is assembled for their approved forms. Other states not yet. |
| Arrears notices Recovered from the owner who is behind. | Traditional Extra $60 to $120 a notice. | Quarter Included Levy reminders go out automatically, as part of Finance. |
| Insurance claims The fee schedule. | Traditional Extra $100 to $250 a claim. | Quarter Included Tracked on the compliance dashboard, nothing per claim. |
| Professional time The fee schedule. | Traditional Extra $180 to $350 an hour. | Quarter Quoted up front 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 | $1,800 to $3,500 | $7,500 to $12,500 | $15,000 to $26,250 |
| Strata manager, all in | $2,160 to $3,500 | $9,000 to $18,750 | $18,000 to $39,380 |
| Run on Quarter | $1,080 $90 a month | $4,500 $375 a month | $12,300 $1,025 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. Run on Quarter is $15 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, Victoria
Run on Quarter
$4,500 a year ($375 a month)
25 lots at $15 a month. No commission, no disbursements, nothing per meeting.
You keep $4,500 to $14,250 a year.
That is 50 to 76% less than paying a strata manager, every year the building runs on Quarter.
The management fee is the range published for Victoria 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 $300 to $500 a lot a year, with minimum fees of $1,800 to $3,500 for a small building. Disbursements, commissions and extra meetings add about 20% to 50% on top. Run on Quarter is $15 a lot a month for the first 50 lots, $11 for the next 50 and $8 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.
Only the largest do. A Tier 1 owners corporation, with more than 100 occupiable lots, must appoint a manager unless it opts out by special resolution. Every other owners corporation can run itself, with or without a committee depending on its size.
Also: New South Wales , Queensland
How to self-manage in VictoriaReview 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 budget” 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 switch to Quarter comes next, and Quarter drafts that too.