With property prices plummeting across our major cities, JimmyT and Sue Williams identify where apartment values are plummeting, where they’re holding and where off-the-plan purchasers are being told they can’t…
It has absolutely nothing to do with strata, but … The recent events in Ukraine and the current turmoil in Washington DC have guaranteed one thing – we will never…
The powers that be have gone curiously quiet on one of the major issues affecting apartment blocks: overcrowding. Where have all the pictures of rooms stacked with bunk beds, subdivided…
If there’s one area of strata law in NSW that has always puzzled me, it’s the rule that says, while an owners corporation must pay for the damage caused to…
Every month or so, JimmyT takes Flat Chat to the airwaves as a guest on Afternoons with James Valentine on ABC 702. This week James and Jimmy crammed a lot…
Last month held mixed blessings for Airbnb and all the other holiday letting (STHL) companies currently operating in NSW. They’d have been delighted that Labor’s sensible but potentially profit-blocking proposals…
With big changes to negative gearing on investment properties proposed by Labor, SUE WILLIAMS looks at what a change of government might mean to the value of your apartments. The…
After last week’s column about the best by-laws other states have, it’s only fair to mention the worst – those you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemies. Everyone in strata…
JimmyT and Sue Williams ask the big questions about the new strata minister … like, who is he? Plus the best and worst of Australia’s strata laws and what makes…
Are you a victim of strata committee bullying or are you just a “known troublemaker”? Even if you’re not, chances are that if you live in strata, you know someone…
Fancy a 400 sqm penthouse with three bedrooms, three bathrooms, two parking spaces plus uninterrupted city and parkland views … for only $1.19 million? Interested? Why wouldn’t you be? This…
JimmyT and Sue Williams ask the big questions about the new strata minister … like, who is he? Plus the best and worst of Australia’s strata laws and what makes…