Michael Teys
Strata Advisor, Strata Researcher, and Strata Trainer in Australia
Michael Teys is a respected strata advisor, researcher, trainer and presenter, who works with property professionals, institutional property owners, and property managers navigating complex issues relating to strata titled property and management.
Strata owners, committees, managers and suppliers have been the focus of Michael’s professional life since 1985. He has unique range of experience as a former strata lawyer and strata manager, including -
• 33 years in private practice as a specialist strata lawyer.
• Majority owner of 11 strata management firms managing over 25,000 apartments throughout Australia.
• Author, ‘Growing Up – How Strata Title Bodies Might Learn to Behave’ (Major Street Publishing, 2015).
• Television host, presenter and strata expert for SKY News Business Channel and Margaret Lomas’, ‘Property Investing Matters’ on www.mypropertytv.com.au.
• Co-creator of the strata renewal concept adopted by NSW in 2015 for termination of strata schemes by collective sale and redevelopment plans.
Michael’s corporate advisory work is supported by his academic research of the strata sector. Strata is now a trillion-dollar asset class in Australia and is becoming ever more complex and important as our cities densify. Michael works with City Futures Research Centre, UNSW where he has been awarded an Australian Research Council-funded scholarship to complete a Master of Philosophy (Built Environment). His thesis is on the impact of large-scale mixed-use developments on urban renewal, and this work is part of a larger ARC-funded study, Reassembling the City: Understanding Resident Led Collective Sales of Property. Michael also recently worked as a research fellow for Deakin University, where he participated in studies relating to the future of strata management and the regulation of building defects, specifically passive fire protection systems and cladding. Michael is the author of Deakin University’s, Building Defects Rectification Toolkit(2020).
Training strata managers is an important part of Michael’s work, and he is currently the Director of Executive Education at Strata Institute Australia Pty Ltd. Michael writes practical training programs and resources that strata managers can use every day, and also writes training modules for RTO's on strata management.