ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the pressures for redevelopment of condominiums. It provides a summary of the methods used in people's Sydney-based research. The chapter focuses on these results to describe the ‘business-as-usual’ approach to condominium development; the influence of condominium governance on this approach; and the likely impacts of this type of redevelopment on condominium governance capacity, socio-spatial polarisation, and the potential for future urban renewal. Governments promoting condominium renewal are also often driven by a desire to improve the safety of older buildings and to promote economic benefits of construction activity. In many housing markets, the primary approach to redeveloping condominiums has been to facilitate private-sector, developer-led demolition and rebuilding. Redeveloping condominiums is more difficult than redeveloping other types of multi-family property, such as rental buildings, precisely because the property is multi-owned. The survey results confirmed a range of condominium owner and resident perceptions of redevelopment.