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Ministers step back from short-term letting report

  • 20/04/2017
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The NSW Government has stepped back from a Parliamentary report into proposed regulations for Airbnb-style online holiday letting agencies and will produce a position paper next month, following broader consultation…

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    My new novel – it even has a strata angle

    • 18/04/2017
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    I was going to start this example of shameless self-promotion by apologising for the fact that this novel has nothing to do with strata living. But wait. There’s a man…

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      Last word on new short-term letting laws

      • 18/04/2017
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      Actually, that heading is a bit misleading, if not wildly hopeful.  The NSW government is due any day to table its response to the Coure inquiry into holiday letting, the…

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        Logins and lock-outs: Keeping you safe from cyber-baddies

        • 17/04/2017
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        Just a quick note to anyone who has recently been enduring the frustrations of trying to register and login to the site.  We’ve all been locked out and tripped up…

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          Roundup: Strata rogue and an offer you CAN refuse

          • 17/04/2017
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          Remember the rogue developer who is basically making up the rules as he goes? Apparently this chump has now sold enough units to trigger the first AGM but thinks he…

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            Co-op housing: working together to live better

            • 16/04/2017
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            James Brown, Chief Executive of Common Equity NSW, the peak body for housing co-operatives in the state, explains why Australia should be looking at a collective response to a community problem. Co-Op…

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              Affordable housing: The only way is ethics

              • 16/04/2017
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              Is there anybody in the housing industry who is more interested in doing what it says on their tin – housing people – than making money regardless of the social…

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                Roundup: Rights, wrongs and the law of diminishing returns

                • 10/04/2017
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                There’s a good old whinge in the Forum this week.  An owner has spent $30,000 in a legal battle with the Owners Corp and expects to spend the same again…

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                  Four-year fight shuts door on inspection that never was

                  • 10/04/2017
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                  A NSW Owners Corporation has been forced to meet its common property obligations, after a four year battle with one of the property owners over a sliding door and an…

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                    Alarm as Fireys levy sparks strata fears

                    • 09/04/2017
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                    A wave of panic has run through StrataLand in the past couple of weeks  – hardly a tsunami but more than a ripple – with the news that the Fire…

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                      Look out! They’re going to tax your view

                      • 01/04/2017
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                      They say you don’t own the view from your apartment but a scheme has been launched today to allow apartment blocks to register their vistas … provided they are prepared…

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                        Flat Chat: How off-the-plan buys went off the boil

                        • 01/04/2017
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                        There was a time when buying off the plan was a gamble well worth taking. Investors and ordinary home buyers with a good sense of where the property market was…

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