Podcast: Minions to the fore in war on Nimbys
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
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…
Podcast: Busy making plans to do nothing
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…
Podcast: Big ideas, tax bribes and Fonzie flats
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…
Podcast: Can rent crisis solutions both work?
The podcast has an international flavour this week – and not only because co-host Sue dropped in just before she jetted off to Europe. Reports from Scotland suggest that build-to-rent…
Podcast: High-level parking and low-cost living
This week we look at two apartment blocks that it’s pretty safe to say are at the opposite ends of the social spectrum. The first is a Housing Commission block…
Podcast: NCAT still crazy after all these years
This week we look at why so many strata disputes are getting stuck between NSW Fair Trading’s mediators and NCAT’s tribunal adjudicators – maybe it’s because they don’t talk to…
Podcast: Toplace crash leaves Vicinity in limbo
There’s only one story in strata this week – Toplace, the developer of the benighted Vicinity building, went into receivership, leaving owners with an estimated bill of between $50m and…
Podcast: Is Airbnb the solution, not the problem?
Whether you love or loathe Airbnb, you have to admit its founder, Brian Chesky, is a pretty smart guy. Anyone who can parlay an idea to rent an airbed in…
Podcast: Study reveals $2m in defective thinking
When NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler commissioned a case study into what happened when serious defects were discovered in a new block’s balconies, it revealed a trail of denials, delays,…
Podcast: Lawyer in the hot seat, part two
This week we bring you the second part of strata lawyer David Bannerman’s Q&A session, with Flat Chat’s JimmyT asking the questions sent by Flat Chat readers and Bannerman Lawyers’…
Podcast: Strata lawyer answers your questions
There’s a change of pace in the Flat Chat Wrap this week as we replay the first 30 minutes of our online chat with leading strata lawyer David Bannerman.Jimmy was…