Podcast: Housing crisis advice that Albo can’t take
The housing crisis is still uppermost in many minds but there’s a new twist with a former Mirvac boss, now an advisor to the government, telling the Prime Minister to do something…
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Podcast: Zooming in on connections lost in France
There’s a different sound to the Flat Chat Wrap this week, Firstly it was recorded over Zoom, then Jimmy seems to have acquired hay fever in the south of France,…
Podcast: Party ‘poopers’ and property panic
It’s a mixed bag in the podcast this week – but there’s a lot of doom and gloom about.We have the Reserve Bank threatening more interest rate rises in an…
Podcast: Stuck in a lift and property soft landings
If you’ve ever wondered whether you really need to set aside funds or organise a loan for future lift repairs or replacement, try getting stuck in one for half an…
Podcast: Dark days, but the Eve of Destruction?
With the media dominated by the passing last week of Barry Humphries and Fr Bob Maguire, our Artificial Intelligence first-rough transcriptions service managed to conflate our brief tributes to both…
Podcast: Rent rise shocks, new kids on the blocks
There’s been a lot happening behind the scenes in Strataland over Easter. For a start, there’s the latest figures on booming rent rises across Australia. Is it any surprise that…
Podcast: Property price bounce, Qld confronts crisis
Queensland held a round table about housing and homelessness recently as the Sunshine State faces a similar crisis to the rest of Australia when it comes to a shortage of…
Podcast: Power shifts but does strata matter?
Ah, the perils of trusting poll predictions immediately after an election. While Labor have definitely won and Chris Minns is definitely the new Premier of NSW, the balance of power…
Podcast: Scots to crack down on holiday lets
This week sees us return to familiar ground both geographically and in terms of our topics as we take a look at an SBS Dateline episode set in and around…
Podcast: Pets, new-build guarantees and refugees
This week’s podcast may have an international flavour – Jimmy is in Scotland and Sue in Sydney — but it covers familiar territory. First up we talk about a campaign…
Podcast: Buying and selling the air above us
We are all used to being told that we only own the air inside our apartments’ walls, although not the walls themselves, depending on which uniquely quirky set of strata…
Podcast: Qld forced sales, big trouble in Little Bay
No sooner had we said last week that Queensland needed to look at their “collective sales” laws – allowing a super majority of owners to compel the minority to sell…