Time to chuck another Aussie tradition on the barbie
Here’s a question for everyone who is getting their teeshirts in a twist over flammable cladding: Would you give up having barbecues on your balconies if it meant you didn’t…
Airbnb: ‘It’s about planning – not by-laws’
DR Cathy Sherry of the Law department of UNSW was quoted in the Privy Council findings. Ironically, she doesn’t think allowing by-laws to restrict holiday lets is not the answer.…
Law Lords’ ruling a major blow for holiday lets
A legal ruling in London could bolster legal defences against court challenges to anti-holiday letting by-laws. Strata lawyer Tom Bacon explains … Britain’s Privy Council has unanimously ruled that owners…
Roundup: Legal action launched over Bankstown fire tragedy
The family of the student who died in the Bankstown fire five years ago, as well as the surviving victim, are suing everybody and anybody who may have contributed to…
The gift of knowing how much to give at Christmas
Christmas is a dangerous time for the concierges and door-persons of our big city apartment blocks – they risk being buried alive under an avalanche of goodies. The problem for…
Strata strife: The not-so gentle art of complaining
If you live in an apartment, sooner or later you are going to want to complain. Whether it’s about the noise from next door, or the smoke from the barbie…
ROUNDUP: We are flat-dwellers – hear us roar!
Did you know we are a whole new tribe, we flat-dwellers? According to this story in the Sydney Morning Herald we, as a group, have different attitudes from the rest…
ROUNDUP: Fun and games in mad rush to rebuild stadium
The NSW Government has been running around like mad things for the past couple of weeks. Every day, my inbox is clogged with press releases about things in which…
Holiday letting threat to MPs who vote for restrictions
As NSW edges towards changing its planning laws to accommodate Airbnb, and other states wait to see what form that takes, are we finally seeing shark teeth behind the online…
Victorian government tweaks pro-Airbnb proposals
The Victorian government has stopped short of recommending that the state’s Owners Corporations be able to limit short-term holiday letting in apartment buildings. Instead it says the proposals for fines…
Knotted no more – but are by-law fines enough?
Finally, I get it. Yes, there is no longer a financial penalty for ignoring an NCAT order relating to a by-law breach. However, that doesn’t mean that repeat offenders are free…