These posts go all the way back to the raw versions of my Flat Chat columns for the Sydney Morning Herald’s Domain section over th e past 15 years. Some of the issues are specific to New South Wales, some are universal. There will almost certainly be differences in strata law between NSW and other states and countries and the laws have changed over that timespan too.
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Future owners of new apartments will be protected from buying into potentially unsafe buildings with Federal and State government agreement last week to place a moratorium on the use of…
Have you completed your by-laws review yet? What do you mean “what by-law review?” The NSW strata laws that came in last November gave all owners corporations exactly one year…
Here’s one from the department of shameless self-promotion that has little or nothing to do with apartment living – you can join me on a luxury 14-day trip to Vietnam…
It’s a real estate sign you rarely see around Sydney these days: “Luxury flats – resort facilities – low levies” Those too-good-to-be-true promises disappeared when new laws in NSW allowed…
While we have all been off worrying about short-term letting and inflammable cladding, something quite remarkable has happened – the Flat Chat Forum has just quickly ticked over its 20,000th…
Sometimes in my idle moments – not that there are many of them – I think about writing a book on the power of doing nothing. I’m sure it would…
The convenor of last month’s Strata Fire Safety Forum says government failure to deal with problems associated with non-complying aluminium cladding has left strata owners to pick up the tab…
This event has now been cancelled – tickets will be refunded. Good news for those of you who have been hanging out for Flat Chat Live, it’s not exactly the…
Over the years, the Flat Chat column and website has told some high-rise horror stories. Some are hilarious, others are horrendous. Here’s a selection of the best of the worst…
It was back in April that Whoopi wrote to us about her legal battles with her committee which at that stage had cost her $30,000 and she expected to go…
You might think that all those skills you acquired climbing the business ladder and studying for your MBA make you the perfect candidate for your strata committee. But while some…
It’s nice to bring a happy conclusion to a story, albeit one that we thought was over and done with ages ago. Regular readers may remember the story of the…