Podcast: Virtual commutes are transports of delight
Are you over working from home? Does your formerly perfectly adequate apartment now seem tiny. Is your kitchen table too high and your laptop screen too small? Are you one…
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Building managers dodge contract limits bullet
Stories about incompetent or dishonest strata building managers are the stuff of apartment dinner party one-upmanship. Or should that be one-downmanship? To be fair, most strata and facilities managers are…
First-timers grab $54k as grant wraps up
The race is on for first-home buyers to take advantage of the Federal Government’s HomeBuilder scheme and save up to $54,000 on the price of a new apartment. The scheme,…
Podcast: Dogs banned but NCAT says OK to cats
There’s a few differences in this week’s podcast from previous editions. For a start, Sue is on the other end of a Zoom call as she takes advantage of easing…
Forum: Land-grabbers hedge their bets
There’s an issue in the Forum this week that brings together some of the most damaging aspects of a strata scheme gone wrong. These are all too familiar elements. Often…
More pet turmoil as NCAT backs no-dogs by-law
The endless pets-in-apartments saga took another twist last week when a tribunal ruled that a no-dogs by-law was acceptable, even though last year the NSW Court of Appeal decreed that a…
Strata data hub promises a mine of information
A few years and a couple of Fair Trading ministers ago, we sat down with then then incumbent Victor Dominello who outlined his dream of a data base that would…
Managers targeted in Vic strata law upgrade
December may seem a long way off but for strata residents in Victoria, it will see a new dawn for their Owners Corporations as laws passed last month eventually come…
Forum: Do we have a right to check child safety locks
It’s already been several years since we were ordered to fit child safety locks to windows above the first floor in strata buildings. It’s an owners corp responsibility to “ensure”…
Podcast: Why we’re turning to ‘new terraces’
What do you do when you want the shared responsibility of strata but don’t particularly want to live with people above and below you? You buy or rent a townhouse,…
OCN seeks views on way forward for strata
The Owners Corporation Network (OCN) wants to hear your views on what the priorities should be in the ongoing review of strata laws in NSW. OCN has created a short…
Townhouses on the rise as unit slide continues
Strata buyers are drifting away from apartments and towards townhouses in the post-Covid era, as people seek more space in which to work from home, and less close contact with…