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Here at Flat Chat we frequently recommend that cash-strapped apartment residents make use of the services provided by Marrickville Legal Centre, if they need strata law support but can’t afford…
Here at Flat Chat we frequently recommend that cash-strapped apartment residents make use of the services provided by Marrickville Legal Centre, if they need strata law support but can’t afford…
It’s a bumper crop of Forum posts this week but I’m drawn to one that reminds me of a friend of mine – a real estate agent – who was…
There used to be a general principle in strata that even if your old balcony balustrades weren’t up to current standards, you didn’t need to fix them unless there was…
We thought we had this covered – cobble together a best-of list of our podcasts to be posted while I was in transit from the UK and then record a…
It’s the brave new world of affordable housing – a luxury apartment block where some people are forking out up to $2.4 million for units and others are paying just…
One of the longest-running rows in strata has been around the fact that strata managers can legally charge commission on the insurance policies they organise for strata owners. Considering strata…
It’s all very well to be gallivanting around the Scottish Highlands, hiking from B&B to B&B (traditional ones, not Airbnbs) but it’s not exactly conducive to recording a podcast. We…
Off -the-plan apartment purchases are very much back in favour with investors, writes Sue Williams in Prestige Domain magazine. And NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler’s efforts to clean up the…
There’s a debate that is rumbling on in the Flat Chat Forum at the moment – and it’s one that raises its head from time to time without ever reaching…
Welcome to the second part of Lawyer In The Hot Seat, in which strata lawyer (and Flat Chat sponsor) David Bannerman invited us on to his webinar. This week, Jimmy…
Our cities effectively closed for business during Covid, but now they’ve had a shake-up and a wake-up and they are good to go, writes Sue Williams for Domain. Friday afternoon…
For all the talk of housing affordability at the recent election there was one obvious subject that barely rated a mention. But now that the dust has settled on the…