Council where Company Title was compulsory
You may find this hard to believe but there was a local council in Sydney which, until a couple of years ago, would not give planning approval for two-unit strata…
You may find this hard to believe but there was a local council in Sydney which, until a couple of years ago, would not give planning approval for two-unit strata…
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast, in the run-up to the Australian architectural awards, we talk about some of the innovative apartment block designs that made it the short-list.…
There is a lot of genuine angst around about the payment of levies or, more to the point, the inability to pay them. Just to be clear, there are no…
It’s a real mixed bag in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast – finance, Airbnb and sneaky sex. Sue Williams and I start our dissection of the week’s strata news…
It’s a real mixed bag in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap podcast – finance, Airbnb and sneaky sex. Sue Williams and I start our dissection of the week’s strata news…
Despite the first rumblings of discontent among some commentators, NSW seems likely to offer strata owners interest-free loans to rectify defects in apartment buildings. And so they should. In fact,…
The announcement that one of the country’s biggest non-bank mortgage lenders will refuse to finance the purchase of apartments known or suspected of having flammable cladding on or in their…
A shock rise in strata insurance premiums due to risks associated with flammable cladding has left many apartment owners struggling to meet price hikes, says owners corporation finance lender Lannock…