About The Firm

Alex Ilkin is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales with over 40 years legal experience and an acknowledged specialist in all aspects of strata schemes law, community schemes law and building defect claims.

Alex regularly gives lectures on those legal specialties at seminars conducted for University of New South Wales, the Australian College of Community Association Lawyers, Strata Community Australia (formerly known as the Institute of Strata Titles Management), the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales, Legal Wise Seminars and the former Home Unit Owners Association of New South Wales. For many years he also taught strata law at the University of Western Sydney and various colleges throughout Sydney. Alex is a Fellow of the Australian College of Community Association Lawyers and a current member of the Strata Community Australia. He served as a member of both the New South Wales Government’s Strata Titles Act Review Committee – which recommended to Parliament appropriate amendments to the Strata Titles Act 1973 (NSW) for the Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 (NSW) and of the Strata Management Chapter of the Real Estate Institute.

>He acts as legal advisor for owners, owners corporations, developers, strata managers, solicitors, barristers and judges in strata matters. His plain English style of communication has proven very popular with clients.

He is the author of the leading, reader-friendly textbooks on strata and community title law entitled, “NSW Strata and Community Schemes Management and the Law”, (now in its' fourth edition) which is often called the “Strata Bible” and “Strata Legislation Handbook in NSW 2016-2017” published in 2017. Both books are recommended texts for many property law university and TAFE in New South Wales courses. He has also published several articles on practical solutions to problems experienced in strata and community schemes. Alex often appears as a guest speaker on radio and has acted as solicitor in many of the leading edge strata title cases decided in New South Wales Supreme Court, and Court of Appeal, Strata Titles Board, Consumer Trade and Tenancy Tribunal and Civil and Administrative Tribunal.