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Quirky: Island residents to pay $22m in levies

  • 19/03/2026
  • Author Jimmy-T

QUIRKY: Queensland resort Island residents with no utilities now have to pay service providers $22m in backdated fees.

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    New laws to force estate agents to get real

    • 19/03/2026
    • Author Jimmy-T

    NEWS: New laws will fine real estate agents for under-quoting to trick potential buyers and stop them from conealing prices on their listings.

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      Rule by the richest: the nonsense of entitlements

      • 17/03/2026
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Your unit entitlements may give you higher levies but more voting power - harking back to the olden days when only landowners could vote.

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        Forum: Making buyers aware of bodgy renos

        • 12/03/2026
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Forum: Unapproved renos, Communications breakdown, Zoom ban for AGM, tree roots bursting pipes, sacking the SM, recount in resolved vote.

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          News: Top cops seize $30m Obeid properties

          • 12/03/2026
          • Author Jimmy-T

          NEWS: It's taken 10 years to track them down, but the NSW Crime Commission has seized $30m worth of the Obeids' hidden property assets.

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            Quirky: Secret bunker to get new life as a home

            • 12/03/2026
            • Author Jimmy-T

            QUIRKY: It's the size of a two-bed apartment... but it's totally underground. Plus a raft of weird and wonderful property yarns.

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              Water leaks and new laws on webinar agendas

              • 11/03/2026
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Two must-attend webinars cover water leaks and impending new strata laws - and they're free.

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                How ‘right-sizing’ fuels wrong thinking

                • 11/03/2026
                • Author Jimmy-T

                COMMENT: How building more, bigger, luxury apartments is hampering not helping with the housing crisis.

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                  Minority hold-outs lose out in forced sale fight

                  • 11/03/2026
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Minority owners' battle to avoid forced sale and demolition of their apartments fails in the Land and Environment Court.

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                    Forum: Why the DBPA needs its own renovation

                    • 05/03/2026
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Forum: All you need to know what you don't know about the DBPA, the mystery of the missing minutes, and who's responsible when cracks appear.

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                      QUIRKY: Fantasy castle sale signals a sad reality

                      • 05/03/2026
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Quirky: A fantasy castle for sale ... in Brisbane. Plus a tricky eviction, a mystery safe, a bi-polar house and all the other quirk that fits.

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                        Coalition of the unwilling fights Glebe Island plan

                        • 05/03/2026
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        Plans for a brand-new inner Sydney suburb promising thousands of homes have unlikely bed-fellows coming together in opposition.

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