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Podcast: Star-struck buyers, Mascot misery

  • 29/11/2023
  • Author Jimmy-T

It’s a packed Wrap this week with a lot happening in and around strata. Global credit rating and data analysis agency Equifax – the people who measure how many of…

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    Podcast: Designer blocks and Broadway shocks

    • 21/11/2023
    • Author Jimmy-T

    In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we talk about the proposal to introduce architectural pattern books in NSW. Will they mean even more cookie-cutter apartment blocks or will  it simply…

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      Podcast: Management rights an $8bn business

      • 16/11/2023
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Some big, big issues have shuffled shamelessly into the glare of the podcast spotlight his week. Firstly we talk about the buying and selling of management rights and how that…

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        Podcast: eBike fire hazard, batteries are included

        • 09/11/2023
        • Author Jimmy-T

        The Wrap has gone all-electric this week, starting with Sue resolutely defending her e-scooter in the face of growing fears about fires from Lithium-ion batteries (and Jimmy’s column from the AFR).…

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          Podcast: The other Minns – our strata commish

          • 02/11/2023
          • Author Jimmy-T

          In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap we welcome freshly minted Strata Commissioner John Minns (not to be confused with NSW Premier Chris Minns) to tell us about his new role,…

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            Podcast – Greenie grass of affordable homes

            • 25/10/2023
            • Author Jimmy-T

            We’re heading across the border to Victoria this week where the Greens are flexing their balance-of-power muscle by demanding changes to the state housing program, as detailed in this post on the…

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              Podcast: Strata scandal right on our doorstep

              • 18/10/2023
              • Author Jimmy-T

              In this week’s podcast we find ourselves victims of the kind of scams we have been warning people about for a couple of years. We are about to go to…

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                Podcast: Pet deterrents and the new Commish

                • 11/10/2023
                • Author Jimmy-T

                There’s good news this week for those abandoned covid fur-babies and the apartment residents who’d love to offer them new homes. The highly dubious tactics clearly aimed at deterring people…

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                  Podcast: Minions to the fore in war on Nimbys

                  • 05/10/2023
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  This week, we open up with a chat about our increasingly popular polls and the surprising results this week revealing what annoys you most about your neighbours. Then we take…

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                    Podcast: Airbnb tax and other strata matters

                    • 28/09/2023
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    Busy, busy, busy in the Flat Chat bunker this week. We start with a wrap-up of what went on at the Owners Corporation Network (OCN) Strata Matters conference last week…

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                      Podcast: Busy making plans to do nothing

                      • 20/09/2023
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      This week we introduce you to the concept of “downvesting” – no, it’s not a singlet fashioned from duck feathers, but a growing trend whereby impending retirees buy a property…

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                        Podcast: Big ideas, tax bribes and Fonzie flats

                        • 14/09/2023
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        This week in the podcast, Sue reports back from a two-day seminar about property investment with the news that, yes, more apartments are going to be built in Australia and…

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