Tenants back roll-out of Vic insulation regs
An overwhelming majority of renters would like to see Victoria’s proposed domestic energy efficiency laws spread across Australia. The results in a survey by renewable energy company Green are hardly…
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Must-see TV – strata’s dark Underbelly exposed
Cancel your plans for Monday evening. ABC TV’s Four Corners is ripping the lid off the whole sordid business of strata exploitation in Australia and, if the promo for the…
Airbnb hosts face Vic tax and apartment bans
Victoria is reversing its open slather policy on short-term holiday lets with new regulations to come into force at the start of next year that will tax holiday lets and…
Minns disclosed IPG shares, says department
The NSW government’s Customer Service department says Property Services and Strata Commissioner John Minns is “providing full support” to its inquiries following allegations surrounding his investments in a property management…
Do you have this professional on your side?
Here in strata, your building will hire a lot of people to help look after its and your interests. There’s probably a strata manager, there may be a building facilities…
State to crackdown on cheap ebike batteries
The NSW government plans to crack down on poor quality, cheap or faulty lithium-ion batteries, a move that will come as some relief to strata committees and residents across the…
$225k fatal accident warning for Airbnb blocks
A penalty of more than quarter of a million dollars imposed on a Wollongong strata scheme where a worker died in an avoidable accident should send a jolt through owners…
Netstrata ‘forensic’ report only weeks away
If you thought the dust had settled on the Netstrata schemozzle, think again. The strata management giant is currently reaching the end of what can only be described as a…
Six-strike strata manager struck off for 10 years
A NSW strata manager has been “struck off” for 10 years by NSW Fair Trading following four years of complaints from at least six different strata schemes. According to the…
Chandler lauds iCIRT, names defects blackspots
NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler has named nine areas in NSW where there has been a history of defective apartment block developments, and he strongly advises potential apartment purchasers, there…
Strata facts (and fun) to the fore at conference
Tickets are running out for the inaugural Strata Impact Conference on the Gold Coast at the very beginning of next month, your chance to see and hear a stack of…
SCA appoints complaints tsar but the lies persist
Strata Community Association has announced the appointment of an independent complaints tsar, in the wake of the scandal over Netstrata’s exposure for charging secret commissions for insurance policies. But, despite…