There were a lot of questions that remained following the devastating report on ABC TV into allegations that strata management giant Netstrata had side-stepped regulations on declaring commissions for insurance…
Are you nursing an urge to see more of Australia, eat some amazing food and rub shoulders with a celebrity chef? Since we linked Flat Chat with our travel website…
There were a few interesting tweaks to NSW strata earlier this year and one of them was a radical reform of the conflict of interest rules. Previously committee members who…
It’s all gone very quiet over at Strata Community Association (SCA) NSW since their president Stephen Brell resigned in the wake of an expose of his company, Netstrata, on ABC…
It feels like the dust has settled a little too quickly on the Netstrata scandal, as exposed by ABC TV. There has been no public statement on it from the state…
A leading property analyst says the Australian government’s target of building 1.2 million new homes is pie in the sky. “I have a better chance of winning Lotto next week…
Subscribers to our newsletter will have already seen this but I thought it was worth a wider readership – JT. There’s a saying along the lines of “those who do…
Buying into strata for the first time is a daunting prospect – and that’s even for people who have some idea what to expect. As for newcomers, including those new…
Australia needs to loosen planning controls and boost apprenticeship incentives, reskill migrants already in the country, and launch an international campaign to bring in skilled migrants if we are going…
Developers are going to have to provide more family-friendly options in medium and high-rise blocks to make a serious dent in the housing crisis, says a new report. But too…
Are we building the wrong kind of apartments for families? There’s a very interesting report in the Sydney Morning Herald about a survey that suggests that the cookie-cutter apartment designs…
There an interesting little puzzle this week that exposes one of the growing number of sneaky tactics that some strata managers use to milk more money out of their clients.…