News: One story – where can we afford to live?
News: Families forced back together, low deposit buyers squeezed, owners owe more, rent strike warning ... and luxury apartments are booming.
Jimmy-T
House rents fall but apartments on the rise
Is the fall in house rents a blip or a trend, and will more people switching to apartments make their rents rise even more?
More of your Qs and As from the lawyer’s Hot Seat
Embedded networks, special levies, vexatious emailers, refusal to get reno permission, mould, committee training, forced to vote and money laundering.
Quirky: Property buyers can’t keep off the grass
Quirky: Stars selling mansions, dreamers buying chunks of grass, data centres squeezing rural homes and Australia's "worst" Woolworths slammed.
And the loser is… SMH hands out ICAC awards
When we said the ICAC Rosny hearings were the best ticket in town, we never thought the Sydney Morning Herald would turn them into an awards show
Forum: Garage fridge fire doubles insurance cost
Forum: Smoke spread doubles strata insurance, dispute over terrace tiles on garage roof slab, strata manager dodges detailed invoices and official inquiry call.
Quirky: Not-grey nomads win $14m luxury pad
Quirky: A $14m win, a house too dangerous to inspect, a former ferry for sale, and eviction of 87-year-old sparks huge anti-airbnb protests in Spain.
Strata training – it’s not just for committees
The compulsory NSW strata training program launched this morning and it's just tricky enough to make it challenging as well as informative.
News: Interest up, prices down and lodgers out
The reports this week are dominated by the interest rate rise but there's more going on in apartment property news, if you look for it.
Result: Another strata manager is struck off
Another manager from a notorious strata management firm has been fined, had her licence revoked and been banned from running a company.
Quirky: $1m fixer-upper or knocker-downer?
Quirky: Stars drop their sales prices, ruins attrct ridiculous bids and rough sleepers told there's no room in Broken Hill.
Forum: Neighbouring block car parking grab
Forum: Neighbours take rogue parking to a new level by putting a gate in the fence to make access to their illegally parked cars easier.