Climate change deniers aside, most people agree that taking steps towards sustainability in an effort to curb global heating is a desirable aim. Meanwhile, opportunist property investors excluded, there is…
It seems that, suddenly, everybody wants to know what strata owners are thinking. Following the success of our recent survey into your opinions on self-management of strata schemes – results…
It was enough to send a chill through the heart of any investor; a recent story in a Sydney newspaper warned that you could be paying almost $17,000 a month…
If you’re thinking of investing outside of the over-heated Sydney and Melbourne property markets one Brisbane-based expert has identified the city’s best and worst suburbs for investment. And strata-minded potential…
Blame it on overseas holidays to posh hotels or trips to serviced apartments in Surfers and the Gold Coast, but there was a trend in apartment block design a few…
The Australian property market has become a stomach-churning game of swings and roundabouts that’s still seeing prices soar for units in some areas – and dropping steeply in others. If…
There’s a sense of the quirky and quaint about company title. The very idea that you must pass an interview by the “board” of existing owners before you can be…
This week on the podcast we hop into the highly dubious story that appeared in the Sydney Sun-Herald this week about a poor old couple who are facing bankruptcy because…
How much do you have to tell prospective purchasers about problems in your strata scheme when you are trying to sell? For instance, do you have to warn them about…
Having braved the wilds of Scotland and the woes of Covid, we are back with a brand new Flat Chat Wrap podcast, with our usual mixture of optimism and, it…
Despite the current state of turmoil in the NSW property market, with prices slowing or falling, interest rates rising and inflation spiralling, a major new report has signalled that buyers…
It’s a bumper crop of Forum posts this week but I’m drawn to one that reminds me of a friend of mine – a real estate agent – who was…