Podcast: What can we do when Covid hits home?
Covid-19 is back in the news in new, super-infectious variants, and in the podcast this week we ask the highly relevant question of what do you do if it comes…
Black mould from leaky balcony in nose swab
Hidden defects aren’t just about feeling cheated when you buy a new apartment, they could have serious consequences for your health, as SUE WILLIAMS discovered in this story for Domain.…
Top strata lawyer joins calls for Covid-19 vigilance
Strata communities are becoming dangerously complacent in the face of highly transmissible new variants of the virus, according to a leading strata expert. Lawyer, strata specialist and long-time friend of…
OCN fears ignored as Covid strikes strata units
Updated, Wednesday June 16, 8.30am The announcement of six Covid-19 infections in a Melbourne strata scheme, with residents in the 100-unit townhouse complex now in lockdown, has raised alarm with…
Forum: Chair dismisses experts and NCAT
The phrase “autocratic chair” is so common in strata it’s almost a tautology. I’m guessing things haven’t improved much since Donald Trump showed the world that all you need to…
Is this the answer to unfair water bill sharing?
One of the careless consequences of apartment developers’ cost-savings, especially in many older blocks, has been the single communal water meter that sees your water bills shared on the basis…
Fifty blocks sign up for interest-free cladding fix
Fifty strata communities across the state have registered for the NSW Government’s program to remove combustible cladding from residential apartment buildings across the state, according to a Fair Trading news…
Podcast: Work cut out for property commissioner
We’re looking at some big news this week on the podcast and wondering what it all means. NSW Fair Trading has announced that they will be appointing a properties commissioner…
Property commish to target dodgy RE dealings
NSW’s under-quoting and over-promising Real Estate agents should be quaking in their pointy shoes this week with the announcement that the state government is planning to appoint a Property Services…
Forum: Do seniors rules allow landlords too?
Does a unit built for seniors or people with disabilities have to be occupied by members of those groups or is it enough for it to be owned by one,…
Helping those who’ve got your back on strata law
For the past year or so we have been referring readers who need professional legal advice but can’t afford it, to the Marrickville Legal Centre (MLC). Although it’s based in…
Podcast: Boom town and band-aids for buildings
This week in the podcast Sue Williams is in Darwin on an assignment, and finds that not only is Darwin the hottest city in Australia temperature-wise (probably … apart from…