Multi-Owned Property in the Asia-Pacific Region

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Rights

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities in Context

      • Erika Altmann, Michelle Gabriel

      Pages 3-15

   3. The Unintended Consequences of Strata Title for Urban Regeneration

      • Rebecca Leshinsky, Peter Newton, Stephen Glackin

      Pages 17-37

   4. Termination Legislation: Property Rights or Wrongs?

      • Alice Christudason

      Pages 39-63

   5. Impediments to Effective Strata Governance

      • Nicole Johnston, Eric Too

      Pages 65-82

   6. City Transition: A MOP Rights Boom in China

      • Zhixuan Yang, Abbas Rajabifard

      Pages 83-101

3. Restrictions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Conflict Between Private and Public Restrictions

      • Cathy Sherry

      Pages 105-118

   3. Environmental Restriction in Multi-Owned Property

      • Erika Altmann, Phillipa Watson, Michelle Gabriel

      Pages 119-136

   4. Urban Renewal and Affordable Housing in Taiwan

      • Chin-Oh Chang, Chien-Wen Peng

      Pages 137-151

   5. Restrictions on Pet Ownership in Multi-Owned Properties

      • Emma R. Power

      Pages 153-173

4. Responsibilities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Collective Responsibility in Strata Apartments

      • Hazel Easthope, Bill Randolph

      Pages 177-195

   3. Major Repair Work: Whose Responsibility?

      • Ngai Ming Yip, Sanford Y. F. Poon

      Pages 197-212

   4. Addressing Conflict Within an Owners Corporation

      • Kathy Douglas, Robin Goodman

      Pages 213-230

   5. Efficacy Beliefs and Homeowner Participation

      • Yung Yau

      Pages 231-250

   6. Promoting Owner Participation in Management

      • Lisa Wei Gao

      Pages 251-267

   7. Improving Governance of High-Rise MOPs in Malaysia

      • Nor Rima Muhamad Ariff

      Pages 269-289

   8. Owner Responsibilities in Mumbai

      • Jeeva Sajan

      Pages 291-306

This book provides critical insight into the experience of multi-owned property, and showcases different cultural responses across the Asia-Pacific region. Escalating demand for properties within global cities has created exuberance around apartment living; however less well understood are the restrictions on individual rights and responsibilities associated with collective living. In contrast to the highly populated and traditional communal housing arrangements of past Asian economies, we see an increasing focus on neo-liberalist, market-based policies associated with the rise of an Asian middle class shaping structural change from communal to individualistic. This edited collection unpacks the rights, restrictions and responsibilities of multi-owned property ownership across the Asia-Pacific region; examining the experiences of developers, strata-managers, owners and residents. In doing so, they highlight how the rights of one party affects the restrictions and responsibilities of others within different policy frameworks. This work will reach an interdisciplinary audience including scholars and practitioners of sociology, public policy, urban studies and planning, economics, property management and architecture.

• multi-owned property
• MOP
• collective living
• Asia-Pacific global cities
• Strata title
• Urban developement
• Asian middle-class

• Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

  Erika Altmann

• School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

  Michelle Gabriel

Michelle Gabriel is Researcher at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research specialisms include urban sociology and community studies and urban and regional studies. 

Erika Altmann is Qualitative Researcher at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research interests centre on housing and urban research as it applies to the apartment sector.

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