The Lot Collection | 2026

Welcome to The Lot Collection, our bulletin on the key issues impacting the Australian development sector. 

Here, you’ll find legal insights into topics including building reforms in Victoria, negotiating hotel management arrangements, OC Act reforms and changes to the ways that cost of building work for building permit applications. 

We hope you find our insights useful – and if you have any questions, or would like to discuss any issue further, please reach out to the relevant article author. 

• Building reforms continue in Victoria: Amendments that commenced on 1 July 2026 and other upcoming changes to building legislation

  By

  • Simone Holding
  &
  • Vujan Krunic

  Extensive reforms to Victoria’s building regulatory landscape continue.

• Negotiating Hotel Management Arrangements: What developers need to know about risk, control, and value

  By

  • Jessica Reid
  ,
  • Tom Pasco
  &
  • Alisha Wright

  We explore in detail the key issues that developers may face going down this route.

• OC Act reforms: how the balance of power in strata is shifting - and what it means for developers

  By

  • Tom Pasco

  The Victorian Government released its response to an expert panel review aimed at reforming the Owners Corporations Act.

• Changes to the way that the cost of building work for building permit applications (and building permit levy) is calculated

  By

  • Simone Holding
  ,
  • Vujan Krunic
  &
  • Genevieve Walsh

  The Supreme Court of Victoria determined how building surveyors can estimate the cost of the building work.