In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap, JimmyT and Sue Williams discusses the possibility of having free, or non-profit strata managers. Would it work, who would use the service and wouldn’t…
Developers may soon be banned from holding positions on local councils in NSW, according to a story in The Australian newspaper. Property developers, real estate agents and their associates will…
By Flat Chat reporter Sue Williams in Mumbai Where is the world’s most expensive apartment? The answer may surprise you: it’s in India. And the building was started by Australian…
I fielded a phone call from a former NSW Fair Trading Minister the other day asking why there isn’t such a thing as a not-for-profit strata management agency. By the…
No one else in a small block was interested in volunteering, so a new owner ended up as a strata committee of one. Now more than half the other owners…
Roughly once a month JimmyT drops into the ABC radio studios for a chat with James Valentine about strata and all the myriad related subjects This month they start off…
A few months ago, I wrote a column about electric car charging in apartment blocks, and what we should do if the currently minimal demand suddenly takes off, with more…
We’ve always been staunch advocates of taking rogue flooring installers all the way to the Tribunal when they flout by-laws and common decency just so they can lay down their…
This week on the Flat Chat Wrap we ask whether retired business people are the best or the worst committee members you can have. Based on this column, Jimmy and…
You’d be forgiven for assuming former business people were the perfect strata committee office-bearers – especially if they have taken early retirement and still have a lot of energy to…
One of Australia’s highest-profile property investment experts says that Airbnb hosts might hold the answer to the loss of houses in the recent bushfires … by returning holiday homes to…
There are few phrases that send more of a chill thorough the hearts of strata owners than the words “fire safety”. Whether you’re in an old building badly in need…