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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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    Podcast: What a great year … for pets and renters

    • 04/01/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    This week’s podcast may be the first of 2021 but 2020 doesn’t get away that easily. Last year will be remembered in global politics as the year of Brexit, Trump,…

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      Will tenants be tempted by no-strata-hassle living?

      • 08/12/2020
      • Author Jimmy-T

      There’s the smell of freshly made coffee and baking cookies wafting through the doorway of a building boasting rental apartments inside, writes Sue Williams, in a recent article in Domain.…

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        Podcast 99: Long-term rental will tempt tenants

        • 10/11/2020
        • Author Jimmy-T

        This week we returned to a topic we raised in the last podcast, namely build-to-rent and specifically the new Liv Indigo building at Sydney Olympic Park. They held an open…

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          Unit blocks where renting is a sign of success

          • 26/08/2020
          • Author Jimmy-T

          “You gotta own a piece of dirt,” the man said. No, he wasn’t a farmer.  In fact, what made this noteworthy was that he was in the business of selling…

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            Podcast: Comedy, coffee and a new way of renting

            • 19/08/2020
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Were going flat out to lift the gloom in this week in the Flat Chat Wrap. First we go behind the scenes of the much heralded and long-awaited (by JimmyT,…

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              Profits of doom – can we afford not to build affordable housing?

              • 10/05/2019
              • Author Jimmy-T

              In the heat of an election campaign when the threat to property investors’ tax breaks if Labor wins power is seen as a fundamental challenge to both house prices and…

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                The Wrap podcast: From homeless to renting, USA-style

                • 22/11/2018
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                This week’s Wrap podcast topics could hardly be more different. In one we discuss what you can do when a homeless person takes shelter in a nook of common property.…

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                  New options put renters first in housing affordability

                  • 20/08/2017
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                  There are two new buzz-phrases in the housing affordability lexicon – ‘build-to-rent’ and ‘rent-to-own’. Build-to-rent and rent-to-own are at opposite ends of the housing culture spectrum but both are being…

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