The freedom of self-management, with the support of a manager.
Self-managed vs Quarter| Compared | A body corporate manager | Quarter |
|---|---|---|
| The fee | A body corporate manager: A per-unit fee, plus a minimum for small schemes | Quarter: $12 a unit a month |
| On top | A body corporate manager: Disbursements, extra meetings, disclosure statements: 20–50% more | Quarter: Nothing. Meetings, notices and disclosure statements are in the price |
| Insurance | A body corporate manager: A share of the premium, where the manager takes one | Quarter: No commission, on anything |
| Answers | A body corporate manager: Office hours, by email | Quarter: Any hour, by email, WhatsApp or the web |
| The records | A body corporate manager: In the manager's system | Quarter: The building's own, a login for every owner |
| The bank account | A body corporate manager: A trust account the manager runs | Quarter: A trust account Quarter runs, visible to every owner |
| The contract | A body corporate manager: Usually one to three years | Quarter: Month to month, no exit fee |
| Who decides | A body corporate manager: Often feels like the manager | Quarter: The owners and the committee |
Everything Quarter does is one plan, priced by the unit, and the price per unit falls as the building grows. The first 30 days are free.
$12 per unit per month, less as you grow
The whole of Quarter, for the committee and every owner.
For every owner
Governance
Finance
No commission, no per-meeting charges, no disbursements and no lock-in. Month to month.
None of these is on the fee your body corporate manager quotes. Each one is a line Quarter removes or shows you.
| The line | Typically | Where it hides | With Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insurance commission | Typically: A share of the premium, where the manager takes one. | Where it hides: Inside the premium. At best, a line in the disclosures at the AGM. | With Quarter: No commission, on anything. |
| Disbursements | Typically: Often billed on top of the fee. | Where it hides: Printing, postage, photocopying and "administration". | With Quarter: Notices, agendas and minutes go out by email, and by post to any owner who prefers it, at no extra charge. |
| Software and portal fees | Typically: Recovered from the building, or inside the fee. | Where it hides: "Management software", "owner portal", "technology fee". | With Quarter: Replaced outright. Every owner gets a login, in the price. |
| Extra meetings | Typically: Often billed per meeting. | Where it hides: The fee schedule. | With Quarter: Hosted and minuted inside the plan, however many you hold. |
| Disclosure statements on a sale | Typically: Often charged for each pre-contract disclosure. | Where it hides: Charged to the selling owner, so the committee never sees it. | With Quarter: Pre-contract and pre-settlement disclosures produced from Quarter's records. Nothing per disclosure. |
| Arrears notices | Typically: Often billed per letter. | Where it hides: Recovered from the owner who is behind. | With Quarter: Levy reminders go out automatically, as part of Finance. |
| Insurance claims | Typically: Often billed per claim or by the hour. | Where it hides: The fee schedule. | With Quarter: Tracked on the compliance dashboard, nothing per claim. |
| Professional time | Typically: Special projects, billed separately. | Where it hides: The fee schedule. | With Quarter: Not something software replaces. When you need a person, we quote it up front. |
New Zealand fee guides publish the management fee and say special projects are billed separately. They don't say how much, which is the point. Your own agreement and your last year's accounts are the real numbers.
What a body corporate manager really costs, line by line: see the numbers
How many units. If you know the management fee on your budget, put it in and we'll use yours, then add what a normal year puts on top of it.
25 units, New Zealand
Run on Quarter
$3,600 a year ($300 a month)
25 units at $12 a month. No commission, no disbursements, nothing per meeting.
You keep $1,800 to $9,900 a year.
That is 33 to 73% less than paying a body corporate manager, every year the building runs on Quarter.
The management fee is the range published for New Zealand in 2026, with the minimum a body corporate manager charges a small scheme and the lower rate they quote a big one. Extras are 20 to 50% of the fee in a normal year, from Australian managers' own guides: no New Zealand source puts a number on them. A bad year costs more.
Review your management fees
The calculator is an estimate. The review is the real figure: every dollar your body corporate manager was paid last year, beside what Quarter would cost the same building, and the service you got for it.
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Press “Review our management fees” on its page. Quarter already knows its size and its state, so the estimate is there before you type anything.
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Once you've joined: the last statements or budget, the management agreement and the insurance renewal invoice. Quarter reads them and adds up the fee, the extra work, the disbursements and any commission on the insurance.
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A poll with the real figures on it, to send round. It binds nobody. When the numbers make the case, the motion to switch to Quarter comes next, and Quarter drafts that too.
The decisions were always yours, and in most buildings so is most of the work. What a body corporate manager adds is coordination: forwarding, chasing, sending and booking. That is the part Quarter does now, for a fraction of the fee.
| The job | With a body corporate manager | With Quarter |
|---|---|---|
| Deciding what gets done | With a body corporate manager: The committee | With Quarter: The committee |
| Answering owners | With a body corporate manager: The committee, mostly. The body corporate manager in office hours. | With Quarter: Quarter, at any hour, by email, WhatsApp or the web, with the clause it came from. |
| Chasing contractors and quotes | With a body corporate manager: The body corporate manager, once the committee has chased the body corporate manager. | With Quarter: Quarter emails them from the building's own address and puts their replies on the job. |
| Notices, agendas and minutes | With a body corporate manager: The body corporate manager | With Quarter: Quarter drafts them, and the chair signs them off. |
| Levies, arrears and the books | With a body corporate manager: The body corporate manager | With Quarter: Levy invoicing, reminders and trust accounting, in Finance. |
| The insurance renewal | With a body corporate manager: The body corporate manager, usually for a commission | With Quarter: Quarter, through your broker or ours, with the policy and its dates on the compliance dashboard, and no commission. |
| The records | With a body corporate manager: The body corporate manager's system | With Quarter: The building's own, with a login for every owner. |
Most buildings that want to leave their manager think they are stuck until the next AGM. Most are not. Leaving a management agreement is mostly notice periods, dates and a properly called meeting, and Quarter will do the reading.
What leaving a manager actually takes differs by jurisdiction and by what your building's own documents say. Quarter reads both and shows you the clause; it isn't legal advice, and for a contested exit you should get some.
No. Quarter works for Body Corporates of any size, from a 3-unit townhouse to a 600-unit tower. The price per unit falls as the building grows: $12 per unit per month for the first 50 units, $8 for the next 50, and $5 for every unit after that.
Everything a body corporate manager does. Governance: meetings, minutes, compliance and insurance. Finance: budgets, levies, trust accounting and the long-term maintenance fund. Every owner gets a login, and the first 30 days are free.
Yes, while you give notice. Send us the management agreement and Quarter will tell you what ending it takes: the notice, the dates and the clauses they come from. The first 30 days are free.
From published 2026 New Zealand fee guides, and Australian managers' own guides for the extras, because no New Zealand source puts a number on them. They are ranges, not quotes, and every estimate on this page shows the cheap end as well as the dear one. Your own budget is the real number, so put yours into the calculator.
No. Month to month. Cancel any time and your records hand over at no charge, which is not true of every contract you'll compare this against.
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