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Commissioner’s lifeline on new-build defects

  • 15/09/2020
  • Author Jimmy-T

Owners corporations in relatively new buildings deciding whether to fix building defects themselves or take recalcitrant developers to court – at huge expense and with no guarantee of success –…

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    Low-income families hit hardest by unit-living’s many challenges

    • 28/05/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Too many Australians living in apartments have too little choice over where they live, are disproportionately affected by the challenges of apartment living, and are less likely to have the…

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      Podcast 64: New rent laws but same old story with point-scoring pollies

      • 18/03/2020
      • Author Jimmy-T

      In this week’s Podcast, Jimmy and Sue examine the plusses and minuses in the new NSW rental laws, which tilt things in tenants’ favour but don’t go all the way.…

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        Why NSW won’t release list of cladding blocks

        • 05/11/2019
        • Author Jimmy-T

        The NSW government’s decision not to release the identities of the 444 buildings in the state that have potentially deadly flammable cladding may have a more political side than questionable…

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          Time we had a Tripadvisor for unit block builders?

          • 21/07/2019
          • Author Jimmy-T

          With defects on the minds of everyone in the apartment world, there’s a whole lot of finger pointing going on. Developers are saying engineers should be certified, strata owners say…

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            Flat Chat Wrap #23 – Airbnb code of conduct, developers go “crowd” and a horse in a townhouse (???)

            • 07/05/2019
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Jimmy T and Sue Williams explore the latest developments in the strataverse … and come up with some very odd stories indeed.

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              Blocks get together to fight crippling cladding bills

              • 01/10/2018
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              Apartment owners facing bills of as much as $60,000 per unit to fix flammable cladding are being invited to join together in an effort to force developers to foot the…

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                Owners balk at booting Auntie out of her flat

                • 11/12/2015
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                The Auntie Mabels of Strataland can sleep a little more soundly. For all the huffing and puffing about forced sales of apartments, the big bad wolves of property development won’t…

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