Roundup: Airbnb report is in .. and it’s not good
This week’s strata news is going to be dominated by the release of the report into short-stay letting. I’ll let you wait until Wednesday when all will be revealed (in…
This week’s strata news is going to be dominated by the release of the report into short-stay letting. I’ll let you wait until Wednesday when all will be revealed (in…
If you are one of the many people who think that strata by-laws are just a bunch of blah and the new laws don’t really affect you (mainly because you…
Sometimes you have an idea that is so brilliantly simple you know it doesn’t have a snowball’s chance of ever seeing the light of day. I was thinking the other…
Another major tourist destination has joined the growing list of world cities cracking down on internet-based holiday letting hosts and their online agencies – like Airbnb and Stayz – saying…
Did you know that NSW Fair Trading has started naming and shaming bad operators? For two months now there has been a list on its website of businesses that have…
By the time you read this, the quiz I set on the new strata laws (below) will have been attempted by 4,500 readers. And it has thrown up some surprising…
As new strata laws free up the regulations on renovations, can we expect a fresh wave of ‘DIY-itis’ in our apartment blocks? Maybe the opposite is true. New definitions of…
The new strata laws for NSW are are only two months away. So what’s changed? If you think “not much” you could be in for a rude shock. Have a go…
You’ve probably heard that the new strata laws will do away with the silly rule that meant, strictly speaking, you had to get a special resolution by-law to hammer a nail…
Dispute resolution in NSW strata schemes is about to get a lot easier. Whether it will be better remains to be seen. Under the new strata laws, due to…
I was at the launch of a new strata management venture recently and one of the senior executives said to me: “You’re not as angry as you used to…
I was wondering this week about how some of the more famous residents of apartment buildings in touristy spots might feel if the parliamentary committee looking into the holiday letting…