Jimmy-T – FLAT CHAT

Sydneysiders flee suburbs with most apartments

Sydney's Eastern Suburbs are bearing the brunt of the city flight - and the areas highest in apartment density are losing the most people.

NEWS: There's not much good news around in property at the moment ... unless you are a WA renter or a downsizer with a room to spare.

QUIRKY: a writer swaps the Australian dream for apartment convenience - and suburban streets with fake grass on the nature strip.

Rescuing stray cats keeps them off the street and can make an apartment a home - so why are residents being charged for their kindness?

Forum: What to do about noisy kids who don't live in your block, shining light on a by-law burden, and proxy farming 10 years after the ban.

Quirky: Missing activist's home for sale, family trapped between petrol prices and housing costs, and the skinny house with an outside bath.

NEWS: Qld scraps affordable homes provisions as rising interest rates do more to suppress property prices than supply ever could.

There's a whole raft of strata law changes coming into force in NSW - and that's just the start with another wave due later this year.

When your off-the-plan developer starts bending the rules and testing the law, pray the only people on your side aren't strata newbies.

Productivity and Equality Commission report says phasing out insurance commissions for strata managers will save state millions.

Forum: Fostering cats when permission costs $100 a moggie, how UEs favour the rich, fixing mould in a rented flat and proxy farming.

Mandatory training for NSW strata committee members should be in place later this year - and now we know what it will look like.