Podcast: Find your place … just shop around
In this week’s pod we look at “placemaking” which seems to be designing communities simply to make them nicer places to live. By nicer, of course, we mean places that…
In this week’s pod we look at “placemaking” which seems to be designing communities simply to make them nicer places to live. By nicer, of course, we mean places that…
There are so many different sources for information about what you can and can’t do in your apartment or strata scheme I thought I might post this compilation of renovation…
Undercover renters who inspected rental homes in Victoria have found that a disturbing number still fell short of the state’s minimum standards required for such properties – especially at the…
Being an owner of strata property can be a bit too much to think about for anyone seeking the quiet apartment life, sipping coffee on the balcony and scrolling through…
By-laws, schmylaws! They are the strata equivalent of fire-ants – everybody’s heard about them but tends to ignore them till they bite them on the bum. Fortunately, our strata law…
Sorrento, Italy, is one of those magical romantic names that conjures up all sorts of wishful thinking. Throw in the still active volcano of Mount Vesuvius, nearby Pompeii and the…
This is an extended Forum post from Flatchatter Stu who explains how his scheme got rid of an incompetent and borderline corrupt strata manager and replaced him with a statutory…
There’s a report on a potentially groundbreaking resolution to an all-too-common issue in the Forum this week. Up until now, in NSW, if you wanted to get rid of your…
Sometimes it feel as if we are lurching from one strata disaster to another. But then you take a second look and realise things are not as bad as they…
Plans to build yet another high-rise apartment block at Barangaroo on Sydney Harbour have been cut down to size after the NSW Government ordered Infrastructure NSW and developer Aqualand to…
We’ve got a bit of a departure (no pun intended) from our usual Lock Up and Leave fare this week. Rather than sending you off to parts foreign, we’re buckling…
At a time of year when we start to ponder what the next 12 months might hold, three reports outline the challenges that the apartment sector faces, the current attitudes…