Overseas investors are being urged to circumvent the proposed “ghost tax” on empty properties … by listing them as Airbnb lets. The short-term letting management website andchill.com.au this week launched…
If you are as tired of reading about Airbnb as I am of writing about them you won’t get past the end of this sentence. However, this week I was…
The secret to successfully running a strata scheme is remarkably simple – just know everything that’s going on, all the time. Of course, anyone who has ever been involved in…
As much as we are appalled at the thought of brand new apartments lying empty for years, the proposal to tax ‘ghost’ investments – first touted by Labor then slotted…
At the risk of quoting myself too extensively, I have been discussing in the forum why some people might find letting their homes as holiday lets worth the additional hassle,…
It’s one of the ironies of strata living that a lot of people choose to live in apartments because of the additional security that locked off floors, electronic access keys…
Years ago friends of mine complained about two yappy dogs living in the apartment next door, that kept them awake, barking every 15 minutes for a couple of hours around…
If strata living is politics in its rawest form – and trust me, it can be – what really happened this week when the government responded to the Coure report…
The NSW Government has stepped back from a Parliamentary report into proposed regulations for Airbnb-style online holiday letting agencies and will produce a position paper next month, following broader consultation…
I was going to start this example of shameless self-promotion by apologising for the fact that this novel has nothing to do with strata living. But wait. There’s a man…
Actually, that heading is a bit misleading, if not wildly hopeful. The NSW government is due any day to table its response to the Coure inquiry into holiday letting, the…
Just a quick note to anyone who has recently been enduring the frustrations of trying to register and login to the site. We’ve all been locked out and tripped up…