Podcast: ‘Worst-ever block’ and Greens v Nimbys
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast we look at a report that building commissioner David Chandler has issued a stop-work order at a Wollongong construction site after structural defects…
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast we look at a report that building commissioner David Chandler has issued a stop-work order at a Wollongong construction site after structural defects…
Sometimes it feel as if we are lurching from one strata disaster to another. But then you take a second look and realise things are not as bad as they…
We’re back and this is an absolute blockbuster, which, considering the topic, is an oddly ironic term. Last week Sue had an exclusive interview with NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler…
We have an absolute rock star podcast guest this week, in NSW Building Commission Policy Director Angus Abadee. Angus gave us a good 20 minutes of his valuable time to…
Don’t know if Building Commissioner David Chandler has a hotline to Santa but with the Building Commission being boosted from 40 to 400 inspectors, you’d have to think all his Christmas…
Owners in the Mascot tower have failed in their efforts to have the collective sale of the block authorised so that they could sell the site to the highest bidder…
It’s a packed Wrap this week with a lot happening in and around strata. Global credit rating and data analysis agency Equifax – the people who measure how many of…
Dodgy developers who use phoenixing schemes to defraud apartment buyers and deprive them of their legal rights will suffer another blow next week when the NSW parliament is expected to…
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we welcome freshly minted Strata Commissioner John Minns (not to be confused with NSW Premier Chris Minns) to tell us about his new role,…
We’re heading across the border to Victoria this week where the Greens are flexing their balance-of-power muscle by demanding changes to the state housing program, as detailed in this post on the…
We’re going interstate and all-ages in this week’s mixed bag but we start with a council on Sydney’s North Shore that has been served with a repair order for defects in…
Nothing succeeds like success and if the newly minted rentals commissioner is anything like as productive as Building Commissioner David Chandler, then the whole rentals scene in the state can…