Forum: Rogue renovator ready to face the music
This week’s lead Forum post feels like a duet between Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus – as in “Oops, I Did It Again,” and “Wrecking Ball.” Given the number of…
This week’s lead Forum post feels like a duet between Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus – as in “Oops, I Did It Again,” and “Wrecking Ball.” Given the number of…
This week on the podcast we look GOMO, specifically grief over missing out on your dream home. It’s the other side of FOMO, where fear of missing out has you…
Any regular reader of this website will know that the lack of knowledge about and understanding of strata issues can range from the hilarious to the heart-rending. “How can I…
You’ve heard of FOMO – fear of missing out – driving people to often irrational decisions. But there’s another side to that, such as when you’ve just lost your dream…
I think the trendy word for it is “triggering”: a word that will instantly have a normally calm and placid person frothing at the mouth and chewing the carpet. For…
We admit we can get a little city-centric here at Flat Chat so last weekend it was good to get out of the urban jungle and find out what’s happening…
Are apartments appropriate places to bring up families? Might they even be better for you and your kids than a free-standing house, in some ways? While the vast majority of…
Pet owners know only too well that increased affection from your furbaby is a sure sign that the weather is getting colder. These animals become heat-seeking missiles as Autumn turns…
It has not been widely reported, but Building Commissioner David Chandler has a big dream for apartments in the state – that one day commercial insurers will return to the…
After all the flying fur over the NSW Court of Appeal overturning a blanket pet ban in a Sydney high rise, there has been a fog of misinformation, disinformation and…
The boxy, brutalist Sirius building is about to be transformed from a pragmatic, utilitarian ugly duckling to a swan worthy of a ballet at the Sydney Opera House, over which…
The Sydney property developer that was the first to fall foul of NSW’s ‘sunset clawbacks’ laws has gone bust – leaving the buyers of its latest apartments, already three years’…