Having been perilously, some might say recklessly slow in factoring apartments into their Covid-19 thinking, NSW Government this weekend issued a “toolkit” for strata committees and managers. Presented as a…
It took three weeks after ordering Sydney residents to wear masks in shops and offices before NSW Health finally conceded similar orders should apply to lifts and common areas in…
Regular readers of Flat Chat may remember how last year we wrote about a Melbourne couple who were enduring the living Hell of a major renovation taking place in an…
This week’s podcast makes a brave effort to pretend life is going on as normal … and almost pulls it off. We talk about the new DNA for apartment blocks,…
Wearing a mask can’t be made a condition of entry to apartment blocks for residents, and signs that say it is are unenforceable, says a top strata lawyer. As of…
New apartment buildings in NSW – and possibly the rest of Australia – will soon have a “digital DNA” that will allow prospective purchasers, incoming owners, strata professionals and government…
Apartment residents in Greater Sydney’s lockdown zone have been ordered to mask up on common property during the current Covid-19 crisis. The order comes into force on Tuesday, July 13,…
It’s the stuff of strata nightmares. The apartment upstairs is owned by an overseas investor who probably doesn’t know what’s going on. It’s been sub-let by a landlord who has…
There I was, sharpening up my one-liners, trying to remember who I’d insulted in Fair Trading and dusting off my kilt for next week’s Strata Matters conference, when someone switched…
As we emerge from our “close contact” self-isolation we are probably going to have to go back into hiding after the selfie we took of ourselves still at work, despite…
It’s taken a few serious nudges but NSW Health has finally come round to the idea that ordering apartment residents in greater Sydney to wear masks on common property is…
Owners who deliberately hide building defects could be the next targets of Building Commissioner David Chandler, with defective buildings and their owners corporations potentially being named and shamed, just as…