Video nasty exposes nightmare on Easy Street
Ready to see something really awful? It’s a cross between a video nasty version of The Block and a horror film they could call Nightmare on Easy Street. Once again…
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Fund strata commissioner properly – demand
An impressive coalition of heavy hitters in and around NSW strata have demanded substantially increased funding for Strata and Property Services Commission in the next state budget. And they point…
Chandler retires but the war on dodgy rages on
Building Commissioner David Chandler is to retire in August – but he says dodgy developers might want to keep their celebrations on hold until they see what his successors bring…
Game on – Fair Trading to investigate Netstrata
The NSW Strata Commissioner and Fair Trading have launched an independent review of strata management giant Netstrata following an expose last month of the company’s insurance practices on ABC TV.…
Thirty years on, strata scandal history repeats
Subscribers to our newsletter will have already seen this but I thought it was worth a wider readership – JT. There’s a saying along the lines of “those who do…
Tradies shortage gutting housing target, claim
Australia needs to loosen planning controls and boost apprenticeship incentives, reskill migrants already in the country, and launch an international campaign to bring in skilled migrants if we are going…
Wastes of space: ‘wow’ factor flats forget families
Developers are going to have to provide more family-friendly options in medium and high-rise blocks to make a serious dent in the housing crisis, says a new report. But too…
Stratastrophe! Sign up for strata disaster webinar
Is your block ready for whatever disaster maybe lurking around the corner, be it fire or flood, tsunami or mystery sinkholes? Back in spring 2023 an Owners’ Corporation Network (OCN)…
Best and worst (recent) strata news from 2023
They say those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Outside of war zones, nowhere is that more appropriate than in strata. So we thought we’d have…
Mascot owners’ plan to walk away is blocked
Owners in the Mascot tower have failed in their efforts to have the collective sale of the block authorised so that they could sell the site to the highest bidder…
New strata laws ease through NSW parliament
The most radical shake-up of strata law in Australia since the current Act came into force in 2016 could, at a push, be in place by Christmas. Changes to NSW’s…
Chandler’s power boost as phoenixing under fire
Dodgy developers who use phoenixing schemes to defraud apartment buyers and deprive them of their legal rights will suffer another blow next week when the NSW parliament is expected to…