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Townhouses on the rise as unit slide continuesForum: Seeking speaking permission & rising dampPodcast: Pets (again!) with James ValentineTop dogs – the very best pooches for apartmentsNew app to handle heavy lifting in levy calculation
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Townhouses on the rise as unit slide continues

  • 25/02/2021
  • Author Jimmy-T

Strata buyers are drifting away from apartments and towards townhouses in the post-Covid era, as people seek more space in which to work from home, and less close contact with…

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    Forum: Seeking speaking permission & rising damp

    • 24/02/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    There’s a genuine “Catch-22” hidden in one of our questions this week.  How can you ask to speak at a strata committee meeting when you aren’t allowed to speak? The…

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      Podcast: Pets (again!) with James Valentine

      • 23/02/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Every so often – about once a month – I get invited on to James Valentine’s Afternoons on ABC 702. Last week the topic was pets in apartments – partly…

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        Top dogs – the very best pooches for apartments

        • 22/02/2021
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Last week, on James Valentine’s afternoon show on ABC radio, I said we had an article on this website telling people what the best dogs for apartments are.  I kind…

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          New app to handle heavy lifting in levy calculation

          • 22/02/2021
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Imagine taking an online tool like a mortgage calculator – one of those apps on a lot of banks’ websites that tell you that you can’t afford to buy the…

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            Survey deadline extended to define ‘unreasonable’

            • 22/02/2021
            • Author Jimmy-T

            The search for the definition of “unreasonable” has prompted NSW Fair Trading, aka the department of Better Regulation, to extend the deadline for public responses to its review of strata…

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              Pet-friendly housing helps everyone, says report

              • 22/02/2021
              • Author Jimmy-T

              A new report backed by six Australian universities has concluded that having pets is good for both tenants and landlords. However, even though more than 60 per cent of Australian…

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                Reverse cycle air-con can be sustainable, after all

                • 17/02/2021
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Last week, I asked how air-conditioning could be considered a “sustainable” renovation (as promoted by Fair Trading in their somewhat premature notes on minor renovations). Well, blow me down with…

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                  Forum: Ctte member gets paid for ‘strata training’

                  • 16/02/2021
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  In these days when conspiracy theories can almost lead to the overthrow of the “greatest democracy in the world” we have to be careful not to fuel the fires of…

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                    Covid crushes city rents but boosts availability

                    • 16/02/2021
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    “Sydney and Melbourne’s inner-city apartment glut shows no sign of easing with the clear prospect of high rental vacancies persisting into the foreseeable future,” says Dr Andrew Wilson, Chief Economist…

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                      Podcast: New pet laws and defining ‘reasonable’

                      • 16/02/2021
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      In this week’s podcast we give the NSW Parliament’s deliberations on it’s new strata pet laws a kick along. As reported here, the Lower House has taken a good six…

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                        Tax and planning boost for build-to-rent blocks

                        • 12/02/2021
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        The NSW government is getting behind build-to-rent housing in a big way, announcing major changes to tax and planning policies to encourage developers to build apartment blocks that will be…

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                          Loving our pets to death with flowers and chocs

                          • 11/02/2021
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          Has your fur baby been looking under the weather since Valentines Day? Maybe you’ve been sharing the love a little too much. We have to be careful we don’t love…

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                            Strata ‘green renos’ and cladding plans move on

                            • 11/02/2021
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            They were overshadowed and somewhat stymied by the pet amendment, but now that has been settled the NSW Government can push ahead with new strata laws that will make it…

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                              Revised pet law offers clarity and compromise

                              • 10/02/2021
                              • Author Jimmy-T

                              The vexed question of pets in apartments and unfair by-laws took a new twist this week when Alex Greenwich, Sydney’s member of the NSW Parliament saw his proposal for a…

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                                Forum: Something shady in manager’s offer of help

                                • 09/02/2021
                                • Author Jimmy-T

                                There’s a sad and slightly creepy story from Tasmania this week – and it’s all about how some people haven’t quite got to grips with the concept of strata even…

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                                  Podcast: Bad landlords and skinny buildings

                                  • 09/02/2021
                                  • Author Jimmy-T

                                  The Flat Chat wrap this week is taken up with three main topics. The first is a petition to parliament to create a blacklist of bad landlords … launched by…

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                                    Fair Trading fluffs again – is air-con sustainable?

                                    • 09/02/2021
                                    • Author Jimmy-T

                                    Our revelation last week that NSW Fair Trading has no idea what double glazing is, even though they specify it in their renovations regulations as being a permitted “minor renovation”,…

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