Letter of the law costing owners way too much
The NSW Building Commission says professionals have more leeway than they think. Strata owners are paying the price in grossly inflated costs.
Forum: Flawed laws and missing miscreants
Forum: Dumping on the DBPA over inflated repair bills, and the absent owners who's dumped their stuff illegally in their car space.
NEWS: Rogue tenant leaves $110k debt behind
NEWS: Tenant does a bunk leaving $100k debts; Co-living block near Metro station pares parking back to the minimum - and many more stories.
Build-to-rent is booming but so are costs
Australia's build-to-rent wave rolls on, but the growing question is whether the apartments can be built at a cost that makes the rents reasonable.
Quirky: Pencil towers and flying water hoses
Quirky: A super-slim pencil tower with single-floor apartments, using drones to clean your high-rise exteriors and dozens of other tall tales and true.
New homes built where they’re needed least
Sydney's housing crisis has a cruel geography: new homes are being built where they're needed least and not where they're needed most.
All in all, it’s just another crack in the wall
Cracks are appearing in the headlong rush to build more homes - and some are in houses next to new blocks where developers just want to dig.
Levies shock: the crippling cost of compliance
In the great league table of law changes and their unintended consequences, the fall out from the Design & Building Practitioners Act (DBPA), is up there with the effects of…
Forum: Hey, big spender – show us the receipts
Forum: How much should strata managers be allowed to spend without prior authority? Also what can you so about felled trees?
Strata gambling: Chances are you’re about to lose
Strata investment is enough of a gamble without trusting that "she'll be right". There sharks in that water and you need to beware.
News: Bad Bunny’s super bowl of property
Superbowl half-time star Bad Bunny has come a long way from the relative poverty of Puerto Rico, with a portfolio of luxury homes.
Quirky: Mobile phone tower gets a bad reception
Quirky: A sitcom home in Wales, building a block in a driveway and a basketball court in an apartment - but a phone tower saga takes the biscuit.