Strata communities are becoming dangerously complacent in the face of highly transmissible new variants of the virus, according to a leading strata expert. Lawyer, strata specialist and long-time friend of…
Updated, Wednesday June 16, 8.30am The announcement of six Covid-19 infections in a Melbourne strata scheme, with residents in the 100-unit townhouse complex now in lockdown, has raised alarm with…
The phrase “autocratic chair” is so common in strata it’s almost a tautology. I’m guessing things haven’t improved much since Donald Trump showed the world that all you need to…
One of the careless consequences of apartment developers’ cost-savings, especially in many older blocks, has been the single communal water meter that sees your water bills shared on the basis…
Fifty strata communities across the state have registered for the NSW Government’s program to remove combustible cladding from residential apartment buildings across the state, according to a Fair Trading news…
We’re looking at some big news this week on the podcast and wondering what it all means. NSW Fair Trading has announced that they will be appointing a properties commissioner…
Is your secure car park really safe? Do you ever find tailgaters are following you into your block? Do you wonder if that stranger slipping in through open garage gates…
NSW’s under-quoting and over-promising Real Estate agents should be quaking in their pointy shoes this week with the announcement that the state government is planning to appoint a Property Services…
Does a unit built for seniors or people with disabilities have to be occupied by members of those groups or is it enough for it to be owned by one,…
For the past year or so we have been referring readers who need professional legal advice but can’t afford it, to the Marrickville Legal Centre (MLC). Although it’s based in…
This week in the podcast Sue Williams is in Darwin on an assignment, and finds that not only is Darwin the hottest city in Australia temperature-wise (probably … apart from…
They say no publicity is bad publicity but you’d be forgiven for thinking the directors of Sydney developers Toplace Group would be happy to shuffle out of the limelight right…