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Letter of the law costing owners way too much

The NSW Building Commission says professionals have more leeway than they think. Strata owners are paying the price in grossly inflated costs.

Forum: Flawed laws and missing miscreants

Forum: Dumping on the DBPA over inflated repair bills, and the absent owners who's dumped their stuff illegally in their car space.

NEWS: Rogue tenant leaves $110k debt behind

NEWS: Tenant does a bunk leaving $100k debts; Co-living block near Metro station pares parking back to the minimum - and many more stories.

Build-to-rent is booming but so are costs

Australia's build-to-rent wave rolls on, but the growing question is whether the apartments can be built at a cost that makes the rents reasonable.

Quirky: Pencil towers and flying water hoses

Quirky: A super-slim pencil tower with single-floor apartments, using drones to clean your high-rise exteriors and dozens of other tall tales and true.

New homes built where they’re needed least

Sydney's housing crisis has a cruel geography: new homes are being built where they're needed least and not where they're needed most.

All in all, it’s just another crack in the wall

Cracks are appearing in the headlong rush to build more homes - and some are in houses next to new blocks where developers just want to dig.

Levies shock: the crippling cost of compliance

In the great league table of law changes and their unintended consequences, the fall out from the Design & Building Practitioners Act (DBPA), is up there with the effects of…