News: How to spot the con in sales contracts
NEWS: Are interest rates about to go up (but not as much as petrol) and the weasel words you might not spot in your sales contract.
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Facts and faults – how the DBPA works and why
The DBPA, designed to protect us from dodgy builders, has exposed us to additional costs. The Building Commission explains why.
Gold Coast Trump Tower – fact and friction
The announcement of the Trump Tower on the Gold Coast may be a done deal - or it could just be more gold-plated pie in the sky.
Forum: Expected to accept floods from above
Forum: Floods from above, fighting old fights, side-stepping DBPA-inflated costs , sheeting home waterproofing costs, and collusion over dodgy a/c unit.
News: Call to scrap capital gains tax break
NEWS: Bernie Fraser calls for tax break chop, to help affordability, Eileen Bond's luxury pad on sale, house prices booming in Melbourne's burglary hot spot.
Trump tower to be tallest in Oz … for a while
The Trump family's first project in Australia will be a hotel and apartment block on the Gold Coast with almost 300 rooms and 270 luxury units.
Quirky: Anyone for tennis – or a townhouse?
Quirky: An old clay tennis court bites the dust - for a price more than the cost of an average Aussie home. Plus all the quirk that we can…
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.