FLAT CHAT – Strata living news, advice and opinions

How ‘right-sizing’ fuels wrong thinking

COMMENT: How building more, bigger, luxury apartments is hampering not helping with the housing crisis.

Minority hold-outs lose out in forced sale fight

Minority owners' battle to avoid forced sale and demolition of their apartments fails in the Land and Environment Court.

Forum: Why the DBPA needs its own renovation

Forum: All you need to know what you don't know about the DBPA, the mystery of the missing minutes, and who's responsible when cracks appear.

QUIRKY: Fantasy castle sale signals a sad reality

Quirky: A fantasy castle for sale ... in Brisbane. Plus a tricky eviction, a mystery safe, a bi-polar house and all the other quirk that fits.

Coalition of the unwilling fights Glebe Island plan

Plans for a brand-new inner Sydney suburb promising thousands of homes have unlikely bed-fellows coming together in opposition.

News: How to spot the con in sales contracts

NEWS: Are interest rates about to go up (but not as much as petrol) and the weasel words you might not spot in your sales contract.

Facts and faults – how the DBPA works and why

The DBPA, designed to protect us from dodgy builders, has exposed us to additional costs. The Building Commission explains why.

Gold Coast Trump Tower – fact and friction

The announcement of the Trump Tower on the Gold Coast may be a done deal - or it could just be more gold-plated pie in the sky.

Forum: Expected to accept floods from above

Forum: Floods from above, fighting old fights, side-stepping DBPA-inflated costs , sheeting home waterproofing costs, and collusion over dodgy a/c unit.

News: Call to scrap capital gains tax break

NEWS: Bernie Fraser calls for tax break chop, to help affordability, Eileen Bond's luxury pad on sale, house prices booming in Melbourne's burglary hot spot.