NSW: Q&A Can I Display a ‘For Sale’ Sign On My Apartment?
Question: Without a specific bylaw referring to this, can an Owners Corporation or the Strata Committee insist that a Real Estate Office erect their signs only on a Particular Area of the Common Property?
We have one owner in our small
I live in a block of 12 units in Sydney NSW.
We do not have a specific By-Law regarding “For Sale” and “For Lease” signs or whether they are permitted to be erected by real estate offices on our Common Property at the front of the building.
Without a specific bylaw referring to this, can an Owners Corporation or the Strata Committee insist that a Real Estate Office erect their signs only on a Particular Area of the Common Property?
Can the owners corporation also insist that the Sign be removed within seven (7) days of a sale or lease of a lot?
Answer: Even if you do not have a specific by-law for signage, the erection of signage is not permitted without the approval in writing of the owners corporation (or strata committee). That approval may involve conditions.
Even if you do not have a specific by-law for signage, the erection of signage, of necessity, involves the use of nails, screws and other “damage” to the common property which is not permitted without the approval in writing of the owners corporation (or strata committee). See for example a standard by-law no. 5 reproduced below. Part of that approval may involve the imposition of reasonable conditions such as designation of particular area for use and removal of the sign within a certain period of time.
5 Damage to Common Property
- An owner or occupier of a lot must not mark, paint, drive nails or screws or the like into, or otherwise damage or deface, any structure that forms part of the common property without the approval in writing of the owners corporation.
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