Residents of the 130-plus apartments in the Mascot Tower apartment block in Sydney’s South were evacuated over the weekend when cracks in walls and supporting beams suddenly widened. JimmyT and…
It’s hard to know exactly how to respond to the chaos at Mascot Towers. If you haven’t heard, last weekend hundreds of residents were forced to leave a South Sydney…
This week, JimmyT and Sue Williams discuss the brand new empty flats that investors are “warehousing” – keeping them locked up and unlived in – until the property market improves.…
It’s been a bit quiet on the Forum front, what with the long weekend and all. But the saddest story of the week is probably the smallest in terms of…
Since our last podcast took us to Russia, we thought we’d stay a lot closer to home with this week’s. A story in the Australian newspaper caught our eye, concerning…
This week, JimmyT and Sue Williams discuss the brand new empty flats that investors are “warehousing” – keeping them locked up and unlived in – until the property market improves.…
Do you ever get the urge to stand for election to your strata committee? Are you convinced you could do a better job than the existing members? Do you want…
Australian apartment owners in buildings fitted with flammable cladding face bills of up to one quarter of the value of their homes, according to a new report. And state governments…
Looking back over that past 15 years or so of Flat Chat, it’s interesting to note the issues that have come and gone. A couple of years ago, arguments about…
Our Forum posts about the building that wants to ban children from its swimming pool has ruffled a few feathers. First of all there was a flurry of appalled and angry messages (which you can…
A big chunk of this week’s podcast is taken up with discussing how worried we should be about the defamation case taken by the chairman of a small strata building…
There`s been a lot going on in the world of short-term holiday letting, with local news like out-of-control parties and and a global backlash in world cities that are being…