Strata management, professionalised.

Michael Teys spent 40 years inside an industry built on commissions — and built the alternative. Founder of The Strata Professionals Australia. Creator of the Balanced Strata Method™. Lawyer, researcher, and one of Australia's most straight-talking advocate for strata reform.

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Forty years in strata.
Still building the profession it deserves to be.

Lawyer. Manager. Researcher. Franchisor. Publisher. Investor. I've worked inside strata management from nearly every vantage point available — and I've spent much of my career working out how to lift it from an occupation into a genuine profession.

The Short Version

I trained as a lawyer, practised for over three decades, and then built and ran strata management companies across four states. Later in my career, I went back to research — because experience told me what was going wrong, but only rigorous evidence could tell me how to fix it. Today I write, teach, speak, and study strata management full time, including as a doctoral candidate at Oxford. The goal hasn't changed since I started: build the case, and the systems, for strata management to be treated as a profession in its own right — to improve the lives and built environment of millions of Australians.

Strata Management Has a Structural Problem

Independent research from across the sector — including government-commissioned studies, national surveys of strata committees, and industry benchmarking reports — keeps arriving at the same conclusion. Strata committees are volunteers with limited knowledge, managing buildings worth millions, while dealing with commercially sophisticated management firms. The contracts, fee structures, and delegation arrangements those firms use are often designed to favour the agent, not the owner.Every part of my franchised strata management network, The Strata Professionals Group has been designed as a direct response to a problem the research identifies.

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