16 Jul 2026
When the developer steps back and owners take over, Section 37 sets out what must be handed over — and the five-owner rule decides when the body corporate legally exists. Use this checklist before your first AGM.
GovernanceDevelopersComplianceBody corporate
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→ 9 Jul 2026
Section 61(1) requires every body corporate to ring-fence at least 5% of the admin budget for capital works. Here is the formula, a worked example, and why buildings that skip it keep hitting owners with emergency levies.
TreasuryFinanceFacilitiesService charges
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→ 2 Jul 2026
Under the Unit Titles Act, service charge arrears follow the unit — not the seller. Here is what buyers, agents, and committees must verify before transfer, and why a WhatsApp "all clear" is not enough.
TreasuryComplianceBuyersService charges
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→ 22 Apr 2026
What the Unit Titles Act actually requires of every Tanzanian housing association — and why most committees are quietly out of compliance.
Unit Titles ActGovernanceComplianceBody corporate
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→ 15 Apr 2026
The Bank of Tanzania's Instant Payment System replaced six bilateral integrations with one merchant API. For housing associations, that is the difference between cash-receipt chaos and instant reconciliation.
TIPSMobile moneyTreasuryBank of Tanzania
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→ 8 Apr 2026
Twelve concrete items every body corporate should have in place before the Real Estate Regulatory Authority starts asking questions — with a 24-point self-assessment scoring rubric so you know exactly where you stand.
RERAComplianceAuditGovernance
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→ 29 Mar 2026
Dual-signatory payments are not bureaucracy. They are the cheapest, most effective fraud control available to a volunteer committee — aligned with the Act's two-officer common-seal model.
TreasuryFraudGovernanceDual signatory
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→ 18 Mar 2026
Tanzanian condominium law gives committee voice only to owners — but most building decay starts with the tenants nobody hears. Here is how to bridge that gap without amending the Act.
TenantsGovernanceBody corporateUser design
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→ 8 Mar 2026
Institutional memory in a Tanzanian body corporate is a fragile thing — and one of the easiest things to lose. Here is how to build an archive that survives every election cycle.
GovernanceAGMRecordsInstitutional memory
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→ 1 Mar 2026
The seven record bundles every Tanzanian body corporate must maintain for audit — and how to structure them so an external auditor can reach a conclusion in under two hours.
AuditComplianceGovernanceRecords
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→ 28 Feb 2026
The central failure of Tanzanian condominium living is the free-rider dynamic. Here is how the four operational modules of a modern body-corporate platform collapse it.
Free-riderGovernanceTreasuryOperations
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→ 5 Feb 2026
Practical tactics Tanzanian committees can use to improve service charge collections — from reminder cadence to exception tracking — without triggering the disputes that make voluntary committees give up.
FinanceService chargesResidentsTreasury
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→ 18 Jan 2026
A practical 12-week countdown checklist for preparing notices, attendance, voting, and minutes — built on the statutory requirements of the Unit Titles Act — so nothing is missed and nothing is challenged.
GovernanceAGMOperationsCompliance
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