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5900 new build-to-rent flats on track for 2030

  • 19/06/2025
  • Author Alexandra Brooks

From Sydney to Adelaide, a new $1.5 billion deal is rolling out purpose-built rental homes, offering a glimpse into the future of renting in Australia.

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    Podcast: Is this the end of balcony laundry bans?

    • 18/06/2025
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Podcast: The NSW government may have inadvertently sparked a war over drying laundry on your balcony with new laws about sustainability infrastructure.

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      RANT: Unenforceable laws worse than no laws

      • 18/06/2025
      • Author Jimmy-T

      There are new strata laws coming in ... but if some are unenforceable, aren't they worse than no laws at all?

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        Forum: Ghosted by our sulking strata manager

        • 12/06/2025
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Forum: When your scheme is ghosted by the SM. Can you renovate in flat pack unit blocks? Fire safety upgrades are nothing to be scared of.

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          Podcast: New strata laws – the best and the rest

          • 12/06/2025
          • Author Jimmy-T

          PODCAST: Jimmy and Sue put the incoming strata laws to the test with SCA-NSW president Robert Anderson.

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            Cyber scams stealing from first-home buyers

            • 12/06/2025
            • Author Alexandra Brooks

            Young Australians struggling to buy their first homes have become easy pickings for cyber criminals who divert their funds to fake bank accounts.

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              Top property website accused of price gouging

              • 11/06/2025
              • Author Alexandra Brooks

              Selling a property? Brace yourself. Australia now ranks among the most expensive countries in the world just to advertise a residential property for sale.

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                RANT: New laws mean little without test cases

                • 11/06/2025
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Changing strata law is a start but our new Strata Commissioner needs to use the financial heft of the State to run test cases and establish precedent.

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                  Forum: Why buy into a strata dictatorship?

                  • 05/06/2025
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Forum: Avoiding a strata dictatorship, invoices seem to show committee rort, fire safety overcaution danger, and your right to see the strata roll.

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                    New strata commissioner starts with first scalp

                    • 05/06/2025
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    The new NSW strata commissioner already has one scalp in his efforts to rid the sector of bad actors, shonky contracts and rampant rorts.

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                      Podcast: Faster and cheaper flat pack flats

                      • 05/06/2025
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      A new way of building apartment blocks - decribed as a cross between Ikea and Lego, means flats will be built faster, cheaper and with fewer defects

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                        Consumer law to crack down on strata rorts

                        • 05/06/2025
                        • Author Alexandra Brooks

                        From July 1, NSW apartment owners will have something we've always been denied - protection under Australia's consumer laws.

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